12/12/2023 0 Comments Christmas photo gun kids photo![]() Jesus privileges white culture and white supremacy, and the political aspirations of whiteness over and against everything else. In a recent interview with Salon, she described its basic tenets: "Jesus is white. Religion professor Anthea Butler's insights on the specific phenomenon she calls "White Christianity" are also helpful here. We will not placate or disarm this movement, bent on our destruction, by attempting to claim that we too have Christian "values." This appeal only strengthens the legitimacy of the Christian fascists and weakens our own. The Christian fascists, by choice, have severed themselves from rational thought. It is impervious to the education, dialogue and discourse the liberal class naively believes can blunt or domesticate the movement. When I wrote " American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" I was deadly serious about the term "fascists."…Ĭhristian fascism is an emotional life raft for tens of millions. These believers find in Donald Trump a reflection of themselves, a champion of the unfettered greed, cult of masculinity, lust for violence, white supremacy, bigotry, American chauvinism, religious intolerance, anger, racism and conspiracy theories that define the central beliefs of the Christian right. By tolerating the intolerant it ceded religious legitimacy to an array of con artists, charlatans and demagogues and their cultish supporters…. The greatest moral failing of the liberal Christian church was its refusal, justified in the name of tolerance and dialogue, to denounce the followers of the Christian right as heretics. In an essay published at Salon, journalist and bestselling author Chris Hedges explained the growth of Christian fascism in America: Understood in that light, the Massie and Boebert's family Christmas photos are revealed as examples of stochastic terrorism, and a specific threat of Christian fascist violence. It is much easier to make fun of fascists for their evident absurdity than to confront them directly. Too many people in democracies assaulted by fascism choose to hide behind denial, mockery, defensive humor and contempt. Fascism attacks normal society in many ways, with the aim of overwhelming people and rendering them helpless. ![]() In this moment, we can see the corrosive effects of the Big Lie, along with the many smaller ones that create an alternate reality for its followers. Fascism arouses emotions of shock and anger among its targets and enemies, producing confusion and uncertainty in terms of assessing the danger. RELATED: Gun crazy: For too many Americans, guns are tied to masculinity, patriotism and white powerįascism, as an ideology and movement, is contradictory, often incoherent and difficult for outsiders to understand. ![]() Those reactions are valid in their own terms. But they are also examples of looking but not truly seeing - that is, of failing to understand the message and meaning being communicated in Massie and Boebert's family Christmas photos. Others used this episode to point at these two far-right members of Congress as illustrations of how deranged and cartoonish today's Republican Party has become. That should not be understood as a coincidence: The Boebert and Massie photos were intentional provocations, demonstrating cruel indifference toward the victims of gun violence, as well as their families and communities. There have been complaints that Massie and Boebert's behavior is not that of "good Christians." There was anger at the timing: Both photos were posted on social media within days of a mass shooting in Michigan, in which a 15-year-old boy allegedly killed four of his classmates and injured eight more. Many responses to Boebert and Massie's Christmas cards from the mainstream media and other public voices have struck typical notes of performative outrage and disgust. There's nothing unique about them. Such a "tradition" is fairly common among a particular subculture of American gun fetishists and "ammosexuals." This is but another symptom of America's unhealthy infatuation with gun violence. ![]() In the spirit of holiday cheer, Massie and Boebert recently shared family Christmas photos on social media - in which every family member is brandishing a gun. Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert, two of the most blatantly fascistic Republican members of Congress, are dreaming of a White Christmas - with the emphasis on "White."
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