There’s an app for Christian nationalists. Far-right politicians are embracing it

Just one present presidential hopeful has endorsed a gubernatorial candidate who desires to return to the times earlier than girls may vote, says girls not personal their our bodies once they turn into pregnant, and insists transgender girls ought to be compelled to poop exterior.

And, in case you hadn’t guessed, it ain’t Joe Biden.

Donald Trump—the Christian-iest Christian who ever Christian-ed—has enthusiastically endorsed North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s bid to turn into the state’s subsequent governor, calling him “Martin Luther King instances two”—despite the fact that Robinson has, on at the least one event, favorably quoted Hitler. 

In different phrases, probably the most fringe, excessive, un-American, and albeit barmy viewpoints are being normalized on this nation—by a once-marginally sane political get together and the media’s leaders who refuse to name them out. And since the media want a horse race all the way in which as much as November—despite the fact that all 4 horsemen of the apocalypse have lengthy since dogpiled onto that syphilitic Shetland pony the GOP has trotted out for the third straight election cycle—the alarm bells that ought to be pealing throughout the nation have been oddly few and much between.

However some media retailers are nonetheless doing yeoman’s work in terms of placing the worry of God’s followers into us. And it’s previous time we begin paying nearer consideration.

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In an unique new exposé, web tradition hub The Day by day Dot shines a highlight on the perimeter Christian dominionist Seven Mountains Mandate and its social media platform, the Nexus Mountain Community. The platform has secured the memberships of a number of candidates operating for prime workplace throughout the nation.

The Day by day Dot notes that Seven Mountains Dominionism exhorts Christians to “conquer the seven domains of household, faith, training, media, leisure, enterprise, and authorities”—and now it has its personal social media platform to assist make that occur.

Consider it as type of a Fb for fundies.

Midwifed out of the New Apostolic Reformation, a community of self-appointed prophets and apostles based within the late Nineteen Nineties that gathered across the late C. Peter Wagner, the Seven Mountains Mandate is championed by Lance Wallnau, a self-described Christian Nationalist prophet in Keller, Texas who was one in every of Wagner’s mentees.

Wallnau introduced the concept to prominence via his 2013 ebook “Invading Babylon: The 7 Mountain Mandate.” Numerous spiritual students and journalists say that Wallnau was among the many earliest Christian leaders to help Trump and stays his most ardent defender. They’ve additionally noticed that believers of the Seven Mountains Mandate participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 try and overturn the 2020 election: a number of New Apostolic Reformation luminaries spoke on the Jan. 5 Freedom Plaza rally and at the least two defendants arrested on the riot shared posts in regards to the Seven Mountains.

Now this Christian Nationalist motion has its personal social media platform, the Nexus Mountain Community, to unfold the Seven Mountains Mandate and function the digital connective tissue for acolytes working to ascertain God’s Kingdom in America.

Among the many members of the Nexus Mountain Community are three latest candidates for Congress, together with two who gained their major elections. The outlet additionally recognized a candidate for lieutenant governor, three state legislature candidates, and a “handful” of former candidates for workplace who’re at present members of the community.

And, oh yeah, North Carolina’s Robinson has his personal ties to Seven Mountains, although he’s not but a member of Nexus.

Throughout an interview with Nexus Mountain Community founder Chad Hawley, Robinson insisted, “It is a Judeo-Christian nation based on Judeo-Christian rules.” Robinson additionally claimed that “to ensure that us to maintain this nation robust I imagine that Christians must be on the forefront of main within the nation.”

In different phrases, Robinson thinks the one method to maintain this nation from going to shit is to actually power a large portion of its inhabitants to defecate exterior. And if you happen to may strip voting rights away from greater than half of us, that will be cool, too. As a result of GOP Jesus isn’t fucking round anymore. He must take this nation again from … erm, religious Catholic Joe Biden. 

And in case you aren’t sufficiently appalled but, you’ll be blissful to study that these persons are each lethal severe and significantly influential.

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In 2022, Wallnau declared that “Jesus was promised nations for His inheritance, not simply church buildings!” Which means they need to take over the nation, have gotten bored with ready for God to return to ascertain His kingdom, and are relying on Cheesus Christ, Crotch-Groping Celebrity to do it as an alternative.

And don’t look now, however they’ve already began enacting their agenda.

One choose on the Alabama Supreme Courtroom, which lately declared that embryos are actual individuals who would do something of their restricted energy to not be a Klondike Bar, is a Seven Mountains adherent. And MAGA Mike Johnson—the Home speaker who would comply with Jesus anyplace, as long as they finally land on “terrifying theocratic dystopia”—additionally has ties to the motion. 

After which there’s Marge.

In the meantime, a few of the motion’s detractors are suitably alarmed. Matthew Taylor, whom The Day by day Dot describes as one of many high spiritual students of the New Apostolic Reformation, famous that the motion is “a political theology of Christian supremacy, which makes use of prophecy to assert that God is commanding all Christians to strategically take over the excessive locations in society in order to Christianize that society.”

Taylor has seen the motion metastasize lately, a lot as MAGA has come to encrust the GOP.  

“The Seven Mountains Mandate idea began on the true fringes of American Christianity,” Taylor advised The Day by day Dot. “When Wallnau formulated it, he was a run-of-the-mill pastor in Rhode Island, however via the … entwinement with Christian Trumpism, it has quickly moved from the margins to the middle of non secular proper organizing within the U.S. and globally.”

Sure. Sure, it has.

And that, pricey mates, ought to scare the shit out of all of us.

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