“Caught on Tape: Doug Mastriano Prayed for MAGA to ‘Seize the Power’ Ahead of Jan. 6” “The content of & context of Mastriano’s participation on the call gives lie to his protestations that he’s neither affiliated with NAR nor a Christian Nationalist.” 1/
In a Dec. 2020 meeting with Christian Nationalists, the man who would become the GOP PA nominee for governor prayed Congress would “disregard” Pennsylvania’s election results.
“God I ask you that you help us roll in these dark times, that we fear not the darkness, that we will seize our Esther and Gideon moments,” the man said, invoking a pair of Old Testament heroes who made themselves instruments of God’s vengeance. “We’re surrounded by wickedness and fear, and dithering, and inaction,” he added, “But that’s not our problem. Our problem is following Your lead.” Looking ahead to Jan 6, the man said: “I pray that… we’ll seize the power that we had given to us by the Constitution, and as well by You, providentially. I pray for the leaders also in the federal government, God, on the Sixth of January that they will rise up with boldness.”
VOTE BLUE ELECT
Bennet (CO) Warnock (GA) Kelly (AZ) Cortez Masto (NV) Hassan (NH) Fetterman (PA) Ryan (OH) Barnes (WI)
We win 7 of these races, Manchin & Sinema become irrelevant.
If we get it done, Dems can deliver transformative change — w/o being blocked by the filibuster.
Trump’s army of God: Doug Mastriano and the Christian nationalist attack on democracy
Pennsylvania lawmaker is a Christian zealot, an academic fraud and an insurrectionist. He’s the tip of the iceberg
Christian nationalism … draws its roots from “Old Testament” parallels between America and Israel, who was commanded to maintain cultural and blood purity, often through war, conquest, and separatism.
the New Apostolic Reformation — could be more clearly defined, and doing that can shed light on Christian nationalism’s lesser-known, but more nefarious fellow-traveler, Dominionism — a creed that adds two more elements: a belief in “biblical law,” as adherents define it, and the religious supremacy of their version of Christianity.