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William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Beyond Jesus’s physical appearance, when teaching young white boys and men about Jesus and also about the kind of masculinity Jesus evidences, we can lean into the actual Bible stories of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection. Jesus’s first appearance in the Bible is as a newborn baby, completely reliant on the care of those around him, vulnerable and inarguably needy."</p><p>~ Angela Denker</p><p><a href="https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/spray-tanned-warrior-jesus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kristindumez.substack.com/p/sp</span><span class="invisible">ray-tanned-warrior-jesus</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>masculinity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br>/9</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"I have never seen an anti-feminist backlash quite like the one we are living through. The embrace of misogyny is thorough and unapologetic. It transcends just about every aspect of this administration, from the president down through his followers.</p><p>~ Jill Filipovic</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <br>/8</p><p><a href="https://jill.substack.com/p/boys-will-be-boys-but-women-are-too" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jill.substack.com/p/boys-will-</span><span class="invisible">be-boys-but-women-are-too</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>'“To me, this disparagement marks a step in the destruction of our multicultural democracy, and provides a path from the verbal dehumanization of others to ope' discrimination and maltreatment.” ...</p><p>We are witnessing the construction of the ideological architecture to excuse violence and suffering on a mass scale."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/7</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“'The disparagement of empathy is the flip side, I believe, of a deliberate effort to set up a permission structure to dehumanize others, and to narrow the definition of who should be included in a democratic state, or in a Christian community,' she said."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Susan Lanzoni, a historian of psychology and author of Empathy: A History, said by email that through all her research into the intellectual history of empathy, she had 'never seen empathy vilified in the way it has been in these current sources [on the American right]'."</p><p>~ Julia Carrie Wong</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/5</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int</span><span class="invisible">eractive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump</span></a></p>
𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙<p>White men are depressed because immigrants and coloured people took their factory jobs. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Disgusting: The majority of the nations listed for “reciprocal” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> on the 8-pg document distributed to reporters by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin are <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poor</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/developing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>developing</span></a> economies. They include some of the world’s poorest nations -- <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SouthSudan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthSudan</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Burundi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Burundi</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CentralAfricanRepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CentralAfricanRepublic</span></a> -- as well as countries in the throes of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a>, notably <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sudan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sudan</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aporophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aporophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariffs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpcession</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"I wish white Christian Conservatives had the same passion for migrant children, school shooting victims, sick toddlers, young black men, Muslim families, LGBTQ teens, the environment, and women's autonomy over their bodies that they claim to have for embryos."</p><p>~ John Pavlovitz</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/prolife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prolife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/guns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guns</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Muslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Muslims</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ReproductiveRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReproductiveRights</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> <br>/3</p><p><a href="https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-too-bad-the-pro-life-right-is" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i</span><span class="invisible">ts-too-bad-the-pro-life-right-is</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.</p><p>Not: Go home. Go home. Go home.</p><p>Yet their 'Christian' America turns people away.</p><p>No one is welcome here."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/welcome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welcome</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"The authoritarian horror show we are now living in has been, in considerable part, brought to us by Christian nationalists and those who want a 'Christian' America. But central to their project is exclusion — and exclusion based on racial or religious purity.</p><p>There’s nothing Christian about any of this."</p><p>~ Diana Butler Bass</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/welcome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welcome</span></a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-musings-e2d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/sunday-musings-e2d</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"[Anthea Butler] lamented that as a result of the embrace of White Christian Nationalism, 'Christianity has destroyed democracy in America.'</p><p>'You need to understand that this brand of Christian Nationalism does not want a Christian world, nor does it want democracy. It wants power,' Butler added."</p><p>~ Brian Kaylor</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br>/4</p><p><a href="https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/notre-dame-conference-addresses-pressing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicwitness.wordandway.org/p</span><span class="invisible">/notre-dame-conference-addresses-pressing</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"The question for Christians, especially white evangelicals, becomes: Why should anyone think you guys are on the level? I mean, just explain that to me. You preach one thing and practice another. That’s weakening Christianity and because Christianity is a load-bearing wall in our democracy, it’s creating a political crisis as well."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"You know that famous observation Trump made that his supporters are so loyal that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and they wouldn’t mind? That was at a speech in January of 2016 at Dordt College in Iowa, an evangelical school. He says that in the same speech where a few paragraphs earlier, he says, 'If you vote for me, you will have power.'"</p><p>~ Jonathan Rauch</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br>/3</p><p><a href="https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-revival-of-true-christianity-would" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theunpopulist.net/p/a-revival-</span><span class="invisible">of-true-christianity-would</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Rather than tell themselves a story in which Trump may be a sinner but his goals are those of Jesus, they’ll just alter their value system to align with his; forced to choose between Trump and their lord and savior, they choose Trump."</p><p>This is why some members of the Black church in the US say that much of white Christianity in the US is heretical.</p><p>It has departed fundamentally from Jesus and the gospels.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"[Elon Musk's statement that 'the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy'] echo[es] what is apparently a growing movement among evangelical Christians to explicitly reject empathy, because caring about the suffering of others might distract you from the more urgent task of accumulating power."</p><p>~ Paul Waldman</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/conservatives-declare-war-on-empathy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paulwaldman.substack.com/p/con</span><span class="invisible">servatives-declare-war-on-empathy</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"But despite what some will have you believe, two things are clear: first, this campaign does not protect Jews – it endangers them; and second, this redefinition plays into a larger Christian nationalist project. …</p><p>Smearing progressive Jews as 'not real Jews' has ramifications that extend far beyond the Jewish community, serving a conservative Christian strategy to exploit religious liberties for the sake of suppressing progressive values."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"What appears, at first glance, to be a technical change in terminology has become a powerful instrument for political control, solidifying executive power to enforce a narrow, state-sanctioned definition of Judaism. In the name of combating antisemitism, this effort threatens to reshape American public life – and with it, the pillars of American liberalism."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection. ...</p><p>Something unprecedented – and deeply unsettling – is unfolding: under the guise of a legal redefinition of antisemitism, the basic architecture of American public life is being radically transformed."</p><p>~ Itamar Mann and Lihi Yona</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/23/antisemitism-redefinition-jewish-safety-christian-nationalism-democracy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int</span><span class="invisible">eractive/2025/mar/23/antisemitism-redefinition-jewish-safety-christian-nationalism-democracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> said in a stmnt on Mon that Alawieh had told <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBP</span></a> officers that she traveled to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Beirut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beirut</span></a> to attend the funeral of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hezbollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hezbollah</span></a> leader Hassan Nasrallah. </p><p>"A visa is a privilege not a right—glorifying &amp; supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is commonsense security," the DHS stmnt continued. </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RashaAlawieh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RashaAlawieh</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfReligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfReligion</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RashaAlawieh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RashaAlawieh</span></a>, a Rhode Island transplant <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/doctor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doctor</span></a> &amp; asst prof at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BrownUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrownUniversity</span></a>, was detained on Thurs in Boston after visiting family in Lebanon, her cousin claimed in a lawsuit challenging <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Alawieh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alawieh</span></a>'s detention.</p><p>Sorokin ordered on Friday that Alawieh be kept in the US &amp; brought to a court hearing on Monday. He wrote Monday morning that "Dr. Alawieh is now in Lebanon."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a></p>