Last week, Christian nationalists Joshua Haymes and Brooks Potteiger urged their fellow right-wing Christians to pray "imprecatory psalms" against James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas.
Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian who has openly cited his Christian faith in support of his progressive political positions, much to the outrage right-wing Christian nationalists.
Potteiger, who was the pastor at the church attended by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Nashville, Tennessee, and will soon take over the Washington, DC church founded by Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, warned that Talarico is "a wolf" who is working to "distort what Christianity is in order to lead people away from Christ, toward the teaching of demons."
As such, Potteiger and Haymes encouraged the use of "imprecatory psalms" against Talarico, which are prayers asking God to pour out his destruction upon one's enemies.
"I pray that God kills him," Haymes declared. "Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."
Shortly thereafter, Haymes, a far-right podcaster and commentator, returned to the subject of calling upon God to destroy one's enemies . . .
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