Opinion: Right-Wing 'ReAwaken America' Tour Brought Irreligious Abomination to San Diego

[Demovictory9]

Depending on where you go and who you ask, Holy Scripture can be interpreted and put into practice in myriad ways, all well-intentioned and in keeping with the spirit in which it was written. But there is one unequivocal and universal truth contained in Holy Scripture for the church: Christians are to be about “loving God, self and neighbor.”

Tragically, late last month, proclaimed church leaders and religious zealots descended upon San Diego County, and twisted this scriptural truth for specific political purposes. In speaking to thousands of vulnerable attendees, this group spewed dangerous falsehood after falsehood about COVID-19 and the 2020 election.

In so doing, leaders abused the very name and message of Jesus Christ, and continued to do immense harm to neighbor after neighbor after neighbor.

The event at a church in San Marcos was the latest stop on disgraced, retired General Michael Flynn’s “ReAwaken America Tour,” a nationwide series of megachurch engagements featuring a who’s who of far-right religious extremists, Trump aides, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and other reckless figures. At every stop along the way, the Christian nationalist tour has left in its wake a trail of dangerous disinformation that leads to bigotry, hate, and, at its most extreme, violence.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/opinion-right-wing-reawaken-america-tour-brought-irreligious-abomination-to-san-diego/ar-AAVYLih

[Coventina]

1. RWNJs wouldn't recognize Jesus even if he rubbed his stigmata on them.

They are so far away from the Gospel, they might as well be cultists, and their real god is TFG.

[2naSalit]

2. San Diego...

Has been a petri dish for this sort of cult shit for a long time.

[haele]

4. San Diego County is larger than several states.

We have a lot of blue, a lot of purple, and a lot of red.
Also, why do all the rural states like to say that California is Godless? You can't go five blocks in pretty much any Californian city or town without running into a church. Suburbs are just as churchy, with their mega-church properties sitting near freeway off-ramps near most of those communities.

I figure there's one "Christian" church of some sort of denomination for every 10k California residents, whether they go to church or not.

Haele

[2naSalit]

5. There are a lot of churches there...

But the "New Age" crowd really got a foothold there when I was there in the 1980s. There were all these conferences for every kind of mystic whatever almost every other week. I don't know what it's like regarding that anymore, I been gone sine 1990 but according to my siblings who do live there, there approach is different but many of those groups are still there.

[Initech]

7. Yeah they are apparently totally unaware of some of the giant megachurches that populate this state.

[maxrandb]

3. They didn't "bring" anything

It's been there all along. They have just given a public outlet to the vile shit civil society helped keep hidden.

This is simply Murika laid bare

[Demovictory9]

6. Good point.