Rob Reiner’s God and Country documentary has been quite the signal by those featured in it that they hate Christian traditions. Whereas David French and Russell Moore have long been exposed as bad actors, this still fails to trickle down to many normies. Phil Vischer being caught in a lie about Rob Reiner’s involvement with the project showcased that the documentary was originally titled The Power Worshippers, named after Katherine Stewart’s book.
Katherine Stewart is a New York Times columnist and the author of the book, The Power Worshippers. William Wolfe points out in a lengthy thread that Katherine Stewart is admittedly unfamiliar with Christian theology.
Katherine Stewart (@kathsstewart), author of The Power Worshippers (which@robreiner‘s documentary against Christians Nationalism is based on) admits she doesn’t even know Christian theology in her own book.
Wolfe continues:
Stewart argues that: “For too long now America’s Christian nationalist movement has been misunderstood and underestimated. Most Americans continue to see it as a cultural movement centered on a set of social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, preoccupied with symbolic conflicts over monuments and prayers. But the religious right has become more focused and powerful even as it is arguably less representative. It is not a social or cultural movement. It is a political movement, and its ultimate goal is power” (23).
Here again is that word: power. As she examines the rise of the Moral Majority and their opposition to abortion, support for traditional (biblical) gender roles, etc., it is all viewed through the lens of power.
In an interesting admission of disinterest at best and ignorance at worst, Stewart acknowledges that she will “leave it for theologians to decide whether their views are consistent with Christian teachings” (24).
One would think that the question of whether or not these widely-held Christian positions on relevant political issues are theologically informed, or even constrained (that is, faithful Christians have no other position that they can hold that is in keeping with their theology) would be of primary interest to a chronicler of Christian nationalism. Because if so, said positions are a matter of faithful discipleship, not power politics.
The anti-Christian Nationalists are not sending their best.
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It takes a very sick and twisted mind – a reprobate and strongly deluded mind – to see Jack Philips as the power-hungry oppressor and those who sued to force him to violate his conscience as the oppressed.
As it becomes increasingly more difficult for Christians to live, work, put food on the table, send our children to school, pay taxes, stay out of prison, avoid bankruptcy, you name it, without violating our conscience, we are increasingly falsely accused of exactly that which is being done to us …
It’s nothing more than wicked people making excuses to try to rationalize and justify their wickedness, using any and every tool at their disposal. That’s about what it boils down to.
Governments, big business, both political parties, billionaires, and other powerful entities are basically holding us at gunpoint trying to force us to fund, support, endorse, and even celebrate wickedness. Basically holding us at gunpoint trying to force us to violate our conscience, and surrender our children, or else.
In what insane, twisted, upside down, and backwards universe are we the power-hungry control-freaks?
What’s really sad is that while Kathrine Stewart decries “Christian Nationalism”, she lives in a culture shaped by Christianity and Christian morality. She should really study what pagan Europe was like.