The US President’s evangelical festival shows how he’s weaponising God
US politicians on all sides have long called on God to bless the United States of America, but having surrounded himself with evangelical firebrands, President Donald Trump is now being accused of weaponising American Christianity – and using it as pretext for an increasingly authoritarian approach at home and abroad.
The White House is preparing to host a prayer festival this weekend where speakers will include Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain, who has compared him to Jesus, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who has talked of the conflict with Iran as a holy war.
The Rededicate 250 National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving – planned alongside the country’s 250th birthday celebrations and partly funded by US taxpayers – features mostly evangelical Christians. But the focus on appealing to a small subsection of Americans has big political risks, and could tear apart Trump’s Maga movement, experts have warned.
The festival, along with regular White House prayer meetings and the establishment by Trump of a White House Faith Office, are part of a wider strategy to cast the US as a righteous Christian nation . . .
The White House is preparing to host a prayer festival this weekend where speakers will include Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain, who has compared him to Jesus, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who has talked of the conflict with Iran as a holy war.
The Rededicate 250 National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving – planned alongside the country’s 250th birthday celebrations and partly funded by US taxpayers – features mostly evangelical Christians. But the focus on appealing to a small subsection of Americans has big political risks, and could tear apart Trump’s Maga movement, experts have warned.
The festival, along with regular White House prayer meetings and the establishment by Trump of a White House Faith Office, are part of a wider strategy to cast the US as a righteous Christian nation . . .
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These religious nutcases, Trump, advised by Whte-Cain, and the other warmonger, Hegseth, have their fingers on the nuclear button. If they take this religious lunacy to it barmy illogical conclusion they could nuke Iran as part of their "holy war" against Islam!! For fuck sake somebody lock the three of them up before they do irreparable damage!!!!
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