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July 18, 2025
Without integrity and trust, our checks, balances and safeguards don't work
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/checks-balances-and-political.htmlThere is no way the most creative drama writer could have come up with a scenario in which a large enough segment of the population of the United States would elect a President whose entire public life has been a demonstration of deviant sexual behavior, narcissism, corruption, dishonesty and psychotic emotional disability.
Into this mess drops the news that the man who is now President of the United States may have been deeply involved with a notorious pedophile in the sex trafficking of minors, and subsequently had something to do with his alleged suicide while in the direct custody of the Department of Justice during Trump's first term in office.
To quote what has become a common byline these days, "You can't make this stuff up."
Into this mess drops the news that the man who is now President of the United States may have been deeply involved with a notorious pedophile in the sex trafficking of minors, and subsequently had something to do with his alleged suicide while in the direct custody of the Department of Justice during Trump's first term in office.
To quote what has become a common byline these days, "You can't make this stuff up."
The safeguards that the founders put in the constitution to protect the democratic republic that it created were based on their assumption that the American people could be trusted when it came to judging the kind of character in people that was a necessary qualification to serve in public office. They could not imagine that a corrupt, dishonest psychopath would ever earn the trust of enough of the population to make it to public office. Those of dishonest and untrustworthy character who did actually get elected did so because they managed to do a good job of hiding their corruption, and deceiving people about their character, not flaunting it or making it their trademark.
July 17, 2025
The politicizing of conservative Christianity is driven by hatred, cruelty, insensitivity and inhumanity
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-politicizing-of-american.htmlMy point here is not to evangelize. It is to point out the blatant, uncontrolled hypocrisy of those who claim that MAGA Trumpism has anything to do with Christianity. Charlie Kirk and Turning Point, who have been at this for about eight years now, have made it very clear that they submit to no Christian authority, but they have created their own pseudo-Christian theology and doctrine, and are using that to support this cult. Conservative Evangelicals are going to pay dearly for this, apparently many pastors and leaders are either unable or unwilling to stop it, and are blind to the fact that this is a movement that is quite anti-Christ in its approach. Some of their church members do see it for what it is, and they are taking the back door out. Trump doesn't have the emotional or psychological ability to show submission to Jesus or to acknowledge his need for repentance. And that, according to correctly interpreted scripture, makes him an anti-Christ.
I didn't say The Antichrist. All of that involves more error in interpreting the Bible than there is space here to cover. I said, an anti-Christ, which the apostle John identifies in his church epistle, I John 4:1-3, and says that the definition of anti-Christ is denying that Jesus is Christ. He says that many of those have gone out into the world. Trump's ego makes it impossible for him to acknowledge Jesus as Christ.
Christianity should not be identified by, or controlled by any politics. It should be the salt and light in culture and society that is its identified mission and purpose. If you are in a church where the pastor is a Trumper, and that gets mentioned in gatherings, then that is a sign that the congregation is apostate, and it is time for you to get out of there. There are plenty of churches and pastors who have not bowed the knee.
I didn't say The Antichrist. All of that involves more error in interpreting the Bible than there is space here to cover. I said, an anti-Christ, which the apostle John identifies in his church epistle, I John 4:1-3, and says that the definition of anti-Christ is denying that Jesus is Christ. He says that many of those have gone out into the world. Trump's ego makes it impossible for him to acknowledge Jesus as Christ.
Christianity should not be identified by, or controlled by any politics. It should be the salt and light in culture and society that is its identified mission and purpose. If you are in a church where the pastor is a Trumper, and that gets mentioned in gatherings, then that is a sign that the congregation is apostate, and it is time for you to get out of there. There are plenty of churches and pastors who have not bowed the knee.
Trump's MAGA cult has distinguished themselves clearly by those they hate, and by the cruelty, insensitivity and inhumanity they promote and advocate as a means of handling and controlling those who are the objects of their hate. There is nothing of Christian theology or doctrine in that kind of hatred. They are reflecting the attitude of their leader, Trump, who is yet another intruder bringing licentiousness to the church, using its influence, but denying his own need for repentance, a core doctrine of the Christian faith.
July 15, 2025
Baylor University takes a step backward in refusing a grant from the Baugh Foundation
https://baptiststandard.com/opinion/voices/voices-when-the-ones-you-love-get-it-wrong/Baylor's approach to the Christian influence that is part of its core identity is almost the exact opposite of Liberty University, the other large Baptist university in the United States. Liberty uses rules to dictate the behavior that it believes reflects Christian values, forcing students to comply to a uniform set of behaviors that university leaders have determined are necessary signs of being "Christian."
According to the author of the linked article, Chris Seay, pastor of Ecclesia, which I would describe as a very progressive, conscience-driven church highly successful at attracting millennials to its membership, and also a Baylor alum, Baylor is one of the few Christian universities that takes a completely different approach.
"It's one of the few Christian universities that doesn't lead with fear or rigidity," he says. "It's not like most Bible colleges, where everything is a rule, and every rule is a dare. When something is off limits, young people will run straight at it," he added.
"At Baylor, faith isn't enforced through shame," he says. "It's lived out in a culture of trust, curiosity and grace. And what I've always loved is that Baylor never seemed afraid of science," he said.
According to the author of the linked article, Chris Seay, pastor of Ecclesia, which I would describe as a very progressive, conscience-driven church highly successful at attracting millennials to its membership, and also a Baylor alum, Baylor is one of the few Christian universities that takes a completely different approach.
"It's one of the few Christian universities that doesn't lead with fear or rigidity," he says. "It's not like most Bible colleges, where everything is a rule, and every rule is a dare. When something is off limits, young people will run straight at it," he added.
"At Baylor, faith isn't enforced through shame," he says. "It's lived out in a culture of trust, curiosity and grace. And what I've always loved is that Baylor never seemed afraid of science," he said.
The disappointing step that Baylor recently made was in rescinding a grant from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation for the purpose of funding research into "how religious communities--often unknowingly--have contributed to mental health struggles among LGBTQ+ individuals and how churches can play a role in healing, rather than harming." The grant was for research to be conducted by the Diana Garland School of Social Work at the university.
As the author of the linked article states, this is not some progressive campaign. "It was pastoral. It was humble. It was meant to help."
As the author of the linked article states, this is not some progressive campaign. "It was pastoral. It was humble. It was meant to help."
July 14, 2025
Are the protest gatherings, marches and rallies actually helping the cause of protecting American Democracy?
Or is Trump and his MAGA cohort in Washington just ignoring all of this as noise, and pushing forward. Here's a poll for some reflection on this issue.
July 11, 2025
Of course politics will invade the tragedy of the Texas Hill Country floods.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/of-course-politics-will-invade-tragedy.htmlIt's hard to tell which MAGA minded government officials came first, Trump, or Texas?
I always thought that the bumbling, inept, incompetent George W. Bush would go down in history as the worst governor of Texas. When he came along, he only had the incompetent, and totally corrupt Bill Clements to compete with. If there ever were a term in political office during which a politician got nothing accomplished during the whole time, it was Dubya's time as governor of Texas. Sit back, sign a few bills, and campaign for President of the United States. That's all.
Then there was Rick Perry. And nothing could be worse than that bag of scum, and the corruption that came with it. It's harder to leave the office of Governor of Texas richer than when entering, though it is possible. Perry showed us how.
But Greg Abbott wins the "worst governor ever" title. He's been in office in Texas long enough to cover up as much corruption as he has instigated.
The attitude exhibited by Texas politicians explains it all. Falling all over themselves to impress an inept and incompetent Trump administration bureaucrat, like Kristi Noem, who deliberately delayed the arrival of FEMA aid to Kerr County by the way, and who appears frustrated because this surprise flood interupted her agenda of promoting Trump''s corruption, they made it clear that tending to her needs outweighed the importance of search and rescue, now recovery, of flood victims.
So thanks to KSAT reporter Stefania Jimenez for helping to redirect the misplaced priorities of Texas politicians.
I always thought that the bumbling, inept, incompetent George W. Bush would go down in history as the worst governor of Texas. When he came along, he only had the incompetent, and totally corrupt Bill Clements to compete with. If there ever were a term in political office during which a politician got nothing accomplished during the whole time, it was Dubya's time as governor of Texas. Sit back, sign a few bills, and campaign for President of the United States. That's all.
Then there was Rick Perry. And nothing could be worse than that bag of scum, and the corruption that came with it. It's harder to leave the office of Governor of Texas richer than when entering, though it is possible. Perry showed us how.
But Greg Abbott wins the "worst governor ever" title. He's been in office in Texas long enough to cover up as much corruption as he has instigated.
The attitude exhibited by Texas politicians explains it all. Falling all over themselves to impress an inept and incompetent Trump administration bureaucrat, like Kristi Noem, who deliberately delayed the arrival of FEMA aid to Kerr County by the way, and who appears frustrated because this surprise flood interupted her agenda of promoting Trump''s corruption, they made it clear that tending to her needs outweighed the importance of search and rescue, now recovery, of flood victims.
So thanks to KSAT reporter Stefania Jimenez for helping to redirect the misplaced priorities of Texas politicians.
There were warnings. And over the next few days, we will find out how seriously they were taken by the camp staff. The focus is going to be on Camp Mystic, because of their high loss of life, but there are many other harrowing stories of escapes all along the river, from other camps as well as from RV parks and small lodges.
But we aren't likely to hear or see much in the way of criticism of public officials as a result. This is Texas. Their local news media, and the local government officials will do their dead level best to cover up any mistakes or wrongdoing that makes Republicans look incompetent. There will be little in the way of accountability for the chronic lack of flood control safety along these rivers, and no one will be blamed for the tragic loss of life, because Republicans don't accept that kind of responsibility. Efforts are already underway to cover up the fact that Kristi Noem deliberately delayed the appropriated FEMA aid. Was she trying to make herself look bad? Too late for that, but does she want the government to look that way on purpose?
But we aren't likely to hear or see much in the way of criticism of public officials as a result. This is Texas. Their local news media, and the local government officials will do their dead level best to cover up any mistakes or wrongdoing that makes Republicans look incompetent. There will be little in the way of accountability for the chronic lack of flood control safety along these rivers, and no one will be blamed for the tragic loss of life, because Republicans don't accept that kind of responsibility. Efforts are already underway to cover up the fact that Kristi Noem deliberately delayed the appropriated FEMA aid. Was she trying to make herself look bad? Too late for that, but does she want the government to look that way on purpose?
July 10, 2025
Welcome to the world of a partisan, biased Supreme Court
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-unthinkable-has-happened-welcome-to.htmlThe small university I attended, in its prudence and efficiency in the courses and majors that it offered to its students, offered courses that could be counted toward more than one major or minor. So as a result of that, as a history major and English minor headed toward earning a secondary level teaching certificate, I took a course called "American Constitutional History and Law," which counted toward my major, but which pre-law students could also count toward theirs. The small school had just one professor who taught upper division pre-law courses, and she was an outstanding expert in the field.
Yes, she was a female, which, at that time, was unusual in a small, denominationally affiliated university where 80% of the faculty in every discipline except education, was male. She was the only full-time professor who taught pre-law courses, the others being attorneys who were alumni, and were adjunct professors. But it wasn't her law school background, or experience as a practicing attorney that I thought made her the expert in constitutional law that she was. It was the fact that she was an immigrant, a Palestinian Christian refugee from the West Bank, who went through the process of studying the Constitution and learning about it in order to become an American citizen, which she did, during the middle of her teaching tenure.
It was her experience in becoming an American citizen that gave her a deep appreciation for the freedom that her citizenship gave her, and her love for this country that was so visible in her teaching, and made her such an effective instructor. She knew the Constitution, and the history of amendments and judicial rulings better than anyone I have ever met.
Yes, she was a female, which, at that time, was unusual in a small, denominationally affiliated university where 80% of the faculty in every discipline except education, was male. She was the only full-time professor who taught pre-law courses, the others being attorneys who were alumni, and were adjunct professors. But it wasn't her law school background, or experience as a practicing attorney that I thought made her the expert in constitutional law that she was. It was the fact that she was an immigrant, a Palestinian Christian refugee from the West Bank, who went through the process of studying the Constitution and learning about it in order to become an American citizen, which she did, during the middle of her teaching tenure.
It was her experience in becoming an American citizen that gave her a deep appreciation for the freedom that her citizenship gave her, and her love for this country that was so visible in her teaching, and made her such an effective instructor. She knew the Constitution, and the history of amendments and judicial rulings better than anyone I have ever met.
To the students in a small, religious-affiliated college in what was a very red state at the time, the thought that Presidents would appoint justices for partisan political influence was difficult to grasp. Presidents, regardless of partisan affiliation, were supposed to take care to preserve the separation of powers by appointing justices to the court on their merits and as an advancement of their achievement, not pluck them out of the federal judiciary because they had a more partisan reputation and might consider themselves obligated to the President who appointed them well over their qualifications. Past history, at that point, could easily be forgotten or ignored.
I cannot imagine what she would be saying in a Constitutional history and law class now, were she still teaching. Our discussions of what a partisan Supreme Court might do were all theoretical. But here we are, with a court that is no longer hiding its partisan favor, uniting as a gang of six to back a President who is openly abusing the powers of the office of the Presidency. In her rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's strong language in the minority opinions she has written, Justice Amy Coney Barrett more or less admitted that this court doesn't care about the Constitution, it cares about what Trump wants to do.
I cannot imagine what she would be saying in a Constitutional history and law class now, were she still teaching. Our discussions of what a partisan Supreme Court might do were all theoretical. But here we are, with a court that is no longer hiding its partisan favor, uniting as a gang of six to back a President who is openly abusing the powers of the office of the Presidency. In her rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's strong language in the minority opinions she has written, Justice Amy Coney Barrett more or less admitted that this court doesn't care about the Constitution, it cares about what Trump wants to do.
Winning the midterms, even getting control of the House back, would be a good thing, of course. But the problem is the Supreme Court standing behind the demagogue fascist Trump. Until the makeup of that court is returned to judges who have the integrity and character necessary to properly execute those duties, and these six imposters are impeached and removed, or forced to resign, we will never get our American Constitutional Democracy back.
July 7, 2025
Republicans are helping Democrats campaign for the midterms.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/republicans-are-helping-democrats.htmlWith sixteen months to go before voters go back to the polls to cast ballots in what will be a referendum on Trump's second term, there are some signs showing that Democrats might wind up doing better than the poll numbers we are seeing at the moment would indicate. Frankly, the poll numbers indicate that the American electorate is ignorant and unaware of what Congress is doing, and they are also frustrated by what they see as a lack of anyone actually doing anything except spending an inordinate amount of time raising money for their own campaign. Congress is not popular right now.
And for that matter, neither is the President, who is getting the worst polling numbers any President has received at this point in their term. If these polls are accurate, once again that's a big "if", we are able to say that two-thirds of American voters are now against him. And I'd say that's a good guess, given the fact that we don't know everything we think we do about the 2024 election, and by observing what has been happening around the country with regard to resistance.
Let me clarify one thing for the sake of this discussion. "Resistance to Trump," and "the Democratic Party" are not synonymous. Yes, there are a lot of grass roots Democrats who are helping form the base of those who are resisting this convicted felon demagogue who sits in the White House now, but the movement has gone beyond the Democratic party's ability to control it, or to provide a political foundation for it. It is based on opposition to the things this President is doing to undermine and destroy the Constitution and the democracy that established and ordained it.
And for that matter, neither is the President, who is getting the worst polling numbers any President has received at this point in their term. If these polls are accurate, once again that's a big "if", we are able to say that two-thirds of American voters are now against him. And I'd say that's a good guess, given the fact that we don't know everything we think we do about the 2024 election, and by observing what has been happening around the country with regard to resistance.
Let me clarify one thing for the sake of this discussion. "Resistance to Trump," and "the Democratic Party" are not synonymous. Yes, there are a lot of grass roots Democrats who are helping form the base of those who are resisting this convicted felon demagogue who sits in the White House now, but the movement has gone beyond the Democratic party's ability to control it, or to provide a political foundation for it. It is based on opposition to the things this President is doing to undermine and destroy the Constitution and the democracy that established and ordained it.
The other party has handed us the biggest political favor they could have done, in getting a lot of publicity for a bill of which the vast majority of Americans, something like 2/3 of them, don't like and believe is a mistake. Democrats cannot affort the luxury of sitting back and protecting their own jobs and turf, but must, instead, make bold, risky moves to protect our Democratic government and keep it going.
July 4, 2025
Where we lost our constitutional democratic republic.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/where-we-lost-our-constitutional.html
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There may be some optimists in American politics who still think the Constitutional democracy that was crafted by our founding fathers when they ratified the Constitition and created what is now the United States of America in 1789 is either functioning, or is salvageable. I'd like to be that optimistic, and while I do believe that American democracy may be salvageable after Trump, I think it is going to take a long time to repair the damage.
It's not all Trump's doing. The dismantling of the Constitution and the steps leading to this current flurry of activity in threatening what remains have been happening for quite some time, undermined by a whole series of events that have been set in motion, most of which have happened since the end of the Vietnam War in 1973, or which had already begun but started gaining traction around that time.
There's no doubt that Trump's approach to the Presidency is an existential threat to constitutional democracy. In his insanity, this ego driven, mentally deranged man acts as if there is no accountability for his actions and that the Presidency is a power for him to use to benefit himself. And so far, he's been right, since none of the safeguards and balance of power has worked to stop him, not because it can't, but because those who have the power to carry it out won't do it. He's insulated himself by appointing sycophants to his cabinet who are ignorant of the Constitution, incompetent at their job so they don't know how to do it, and loyal to him, and just enough corrupt judges to the court bench to get cases in their hands so nothing happens.
But ignorance of the Constitution, and a lack of interest in the politics that are part of the operation of any government is an American trait. There is an apathy among the population of this country that shows up in large numbers of people who don't bother to register and vote. And there's another segment that does show up in order to cast a vote in support of someone else's agenda, rather than do their own thinking. Being patriotic means more than wearing red, white and blue clothes on the Fourth of July, or wearing an American flag lapel pin. It requires taking the time to understand how government works in order to preserve democracy by participating in it as an educated voter, not an ignorant dumb ass.
It's not all Trump's doing. The dismantling of the Constitution and the steps leading to this current flurry of activity in threatening what remains have been happening for quite some time, undermined by a whole series of events that have been set in motion, most of which have happened since the end of the Vietnam War in 1973, or which had already begun but started gaining traction around that time.
There's no doubt that Trump's approach to the Presidency is an existential threat to constitutional democracy. In his insanity, this ego driven, mentally deranged man acts as if there is no accountability for his actions and that the Presidency is a power for him to use to benefit himself. And so far, he's been right, since none of the safeguards and balance of power has worked to stop him, not because it can't, but because those who have the power to carry it out won't do it. He's insulated himself by appointing sycophants to his cabinet who are ignorant of the Constitution, incompetent at their job so they don't know how to do it, and loyal to him, and just enough corrupt judges to the court bench to get cases in their hands so nothing happens.
But ignorance of the Constitution, and a lack of interest in the politics that are part of the operation of any government is an American trait. There is an apathy among the population of this country that shows up in large numbers of people who don't bother to register and vote. And there's another segment that does show up in order to cast a vote in support of someone else's agenda, rather than do their own thinking. Being patriotic means more than wearing red, white and blue clothes on the Fourth of July, or wearing an American flag lapel pin. It requires taking the time to understand how government works in order to preserve democracy by participating in it as an educated voter, not an ignorant dumb ass.
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Our best hope right now is that Trump will self destruct, by impaling himself on support for bills like the one they passed today. Are Americans who don't like this bill and will be hurt by it still stupid enough to vote for the GOP to stay in power? That will be the true test of whether or not we still have a chance at preserving and protecting our democracy.
July 1, 2025
The Supreme Court has become as much of an existential threat to American democracy as Trump has been.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-supreme-court-has-become-as-much-of.htmlTrump has used the same standards of incompetence and character flaws to make his Supreme Court appointments as he has to build his cabinet. So we have this wonderful gift, from the past two Republican Presidents of the United States, a Supreme Court made up of individuals who not only did not possess the credentials in the federal judiciary or legal field to advance to a job with the kind of Constitutional responsibility as the Supreme Court, but who seem almost deliberately inept and incompetent, as if they think their job is to sabotage the court, upset the carefully crafted balance of power in the Constitution and throw the government into confusion, by undermining it.
America's founding fathers operated under the impression, which has, in modern times become an illusion, that the individuals who would be considered for appointment to these kinds of public office would come from among those who had studied the law and the constitution, and had a respect for its principles and for the limits and balances that it placed on government power and its use. They clearly did not expect its members to be driven by partisan politics or personal ambition, but by a desire to serve the public, defending the most vulnerable and enforcing the guarantee of equal individual rights for every single person within the boundaries of the United States of America.
Considering those ideals against the backdrop of decisions made by this Roberts court makes them look like some kind of sick joke.
But, what do we expect?
America's founding fathers operated under the impression, which has, in modern times become an illusion, that the individuals who would be considered for appointment to these kinds of public office would come from among those who had studied the law and the constitution, and had a respect for its principles and for the limits and balances that it placed on government power and its use. They clearly did not expect its members to be driven by partisan politics or personal ambition, but by a desire to serve the public, defending the most vulnerable and enforcing the guarantee of equal individual rights for every single person within the boundaries of the United States of America.
Considering those ideals against the backdrop of decisions made by this Roberts court makes them look like some kind of sick joke.
But, what do we expect?
June 29, 2025
Southern Baptists were founded by churches in slave states who objected to the increasingly abolitionist perspective of the Triennial Baptist Convention, which refused to appoint a slave owner nominated as a "test case" by a group of Baptists in Georgia as a missionary. So their "roots" are found in their support for the enslavement of black people, based on the false doctrinal belief in their inferiority to white people. It was not until 1995, 150 years after the denomination was formed in Augusta, Georgia, that any formal apology for their role in the enslavement of human beings came about.
They got involved in right wing extremist politics, now the "largest Protestant Denomination in America" is dying.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-largest-protestant-denomination-in.htmlThe denomination is facing issues that, thirty years ago, it never imagined it would face, when fundamentalists, who were not in the majority, but who had a significant following in the denomination, began an effort to affect the election of officers who controlled appointments on two of the most powerful committees, in order to change the makeup of trustee boards at all of the denomination's six seminaries, two mission boards, publishing house and commissions, to place it under fundamentalist control. The claimed objective was to enforce a doctrinal position on Biblical Inerrancy that fundamentalists believed, and claimed that those who didn't were liberals who were subverting the Christian gospel.
But one of the distinguishing characteristics of Baptists, that make them different from other Protestants, is that they don't gather in denominations to force doctrinal unity on independent, autonomous churches. In reality, the leaders of this fundamentalist takeover, known as the "Conservative Resurgence," were introducing Christian Reconstructionism into the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, to bring about political change leading to the imposition of Christian nationalism on the country, culminating in what we now know as Project 2025.
It was at that moment that the Southern Baptists reached the peak of their influence and set events in motion that would lead to the denomination experiencing its steepest declines in membership and attendance since Reconstruction. I believe it was at that moment in 1979, clearly explained by Bill Moyers in the documentary linked above, that the Southern Baptist Convention destroyed itself.
But one of the distinguishing characteristics of Baptists, that make them different from other Protestants, is that they don't gather in denominations to force doctrinal unity on independent, autonomous churches. In reality, the leaders of this fundamentalist takeover, known as the "Conservative Resurgence," were introducing Christian Reconstructionism into the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, to bring about political change leading to the imposition of Christian nationalism on the country, culminating in what we now know as Project 2025.
It was at that moment that the Southern Baptists reached the peak of their influence and set events in motion that would lead to the denomination experiencing its steepest declines in membership and attendance since Reconstruction. I believe it was at that moment in 1979, clearly explained by Bill Moyers in the documentary linked above, that the Southern Baptist Convention destroyed itself.
Southern Baptists were founded by churches in slave states who objected to the increasingly abolitionist perspective of the Triennial Baptist Convention, which refused to appoint a slave owner nominated as a "test case" by a group of Baptists in Georgia as a missionary. So their "roots" are found in their support for the enslavement of black people, based on the false doctrinal belief in their inferiority to white people. It was not until 1995, 150 years after the denomination was formed in Augusta, Georgia, that any formal apology for their role in the enslavement of human beings came about.
Think about that. The largest Protestant denomination in the United States was founded on beliefs and convictions of people claiming to be Christian in a false, inhumane, unChristian doctrine and practice. And it took them 150 years to realize the error of their ways.
So it should not be surprising that another false doctrine would be at the core of a "Conservative Resurgence" aimed at using the voting strength of this same denomination to bring about radical political reform leading the United States down the path to Christian nationalism. Nor should it be surprising that this movement has led to the largest collapse of attendance and membership in this same denomination since Reconstruction.
So it should not be surprising that another false doctrine would be at the core of a "Conservative Resurgence" aimed at using the voting strength of this same denomination to bring about radical political reform leading the United States down the path to Christian nationalism. Nor should it be surprising that this movement has led to the largest collapse of attendance and membership in this same denomination since Reconstruction.
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