MAGA has infiltrated and corrupted conservative Evangelicalism, so Liberal Mainline Protestants have stepped up

[lees1975]

to defend the true Christian gospel.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/as-trumps-presidency-exposes.html

Those Christians who are remaining faithful to the gospel message of Jesus Christ, and to a biblically guided, doctrinally and theologically honest practice of Christian principles are labelled as liberal, progressive, moderate, or some other descriptive adjectives used by conservatives to cast derision and disrespect, and accuse those they are labelling of apostasy and heresy. But it's the conservative Evangelicals, the "religious right," the fundamentalists, Pentecostals, Charismatics and other right wing pseudo-Christians who have distorted and misinterpreted the Bible, and attempted to use it to advance a cause it was never intended to advance, including the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" that have become a godless cult.

It's difficult for many people on the political left to embrace any kind of alliance with any group that identifies as Christian. Many American political liberals see any kind of Christian practice as intellectual failure, and a betrayal of rational thought. I would think that pure progressive liberalism would embrace free conscience, regardless of what it produces, and would see those who have made the connection between one of the most powerful cultural influences in the world, and its alignment with their own political views in a way that has the power to protect and preserve American Democracy, and there are many who do see it this way.

The Episcopal Church has, for a long time, stood squarely on the core values of the Christian gospel. I remember, when I was a high school student, seeing a sign outside of an Episcopal church building in Tucson, Arizona that proclaimed, "It is a sin to build a nuclear bomb," and directly linking that message to Matthew 5 , "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." When I asked my Sunday School teacher in the Baptist church where I grew up about it, I was told that dropping the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary actions to bring about God's will, and was told that the Episcopalians were in error when it came to understanding and interpreting the Bible.

Doctrinal purity is not only impossible to achieve, it's a major distraction from the point of the Christian gospel, which is not intellectual assent to correct doctrine and theology, but living a lifestyle influenced by values which enhance human existence and link people together, believing that we are all created in God's image. We're capable of rational thought, so that we do not become subject to blind obedience. Some American Christians, because of their tradition and their past, have learned from their history and avoid repeating it. And I am particularly grateful for all of the clergy, Protestant and Catholic, who are now rising up and pointing out the contrast between the selfishness of MAGA and the grace of the Christian gospel.

The two things are mutually exclusive. Embracing MAGA is abandoning Christianity, and embracing Christianity requires complete abandonment of MAGA.

[Norrrm]

1. the public face of Christianity in America today.

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
There are two kinds of Christians, political Christians and Christians of faith.
Political Christians are the public face of Christianity in America today.

[usonian]

2. I wish they had spoken up decdes earlier.

I posted about Neville Chamberlain today.

By not taking a stand early on, people let evil grow until it is almost unstoppable, and has wreaked much death and destruction.

This will be successful if it helps bring about a tipping point, IF we haven't gone past the point of no return.

I certainly hope that we haven't.

Those of us who are tolerant must NOT be tolerant of evil and destructive actions.

[Permanut]

3. K & R