Pete Hegseth's pastor...

[Anonymous]

...defends slavery. This is what American Christian Nationalism is:

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalist-commentator-joshua-haymes-says-slavery-not-inherently-evil

"The institution of slavery is not inherently evil," Haymes insisted. "It is not inherently evil to own another human being."

"It is very important that every Christian affirm what I just said," he continued. "Not only should they affirm it, every Christian in today's society should be able to defend what I just said. Every Christian should be able to defend it ... Christians in America have been led astray on this topic. They've been led to believe things that the Bible doesn't teach, and when we go beyond the Bible, there are dire consequences."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...defends slavery. This is what American Christian Nationalism is:

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalist-commentator-joshua-haymes-says-slavery-not-inherently-evil

"The institution of slavery is not inherently evil," Haymes insisted. "It is not inherently evil to own another human being."

"It is very important that every Christian affirm what I just said," he continued. "Not only should they affirm it, every Christian in today's society should be able to defend what I just said. Every Christian should be able to defend it ... Christians in America have been led astray on this topic. They've been led to believe things that the Bible doesn't teach, and when we go beyond the Bible, there are dire consequences."

IOW, if it's in the Bible, it's OK??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...defends slavery. This is what American Christian Nationalism is:

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalist-commentator-joshua-haymes-says-slavery-not-inherently-evil

"The institution of slavery is not inherently evil," Haymes insisted. "It is not inherently evil to own another human being."

"It is very important that every Christian affirm what I just said," he continued. "Not only should they affirm it, every Christian in today's society should be able to defend what I just said. Every Christian should be able to defend it ... Christians in America have been led astray on this topic. They've been led to believe things that the Bible doesn't teach, and when we go beyond the Bible, there are dire consequences."

IOW, if it's in the Bible, it's OK??

No, it's even worse. Read the article.
These monsters preach "qualified immunity", but even worse: if it's not explicitly condemned in the Bible, it's OK, and *must not be challenged at all*. And the Bible will never get an update (unless you are Mormon).

[Anonymous]

Unauthorized immigration is never condemned in the Bible. Checkmate, Christians!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...defends slavery. This is what American Christian Nationalism is:

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalist-commentator-joshua-haymes-says-slavery-not-inherently-evil

"The institution of slavery is not inherently evil," Haymes insisted. "It is not inherently evil to own another human being."

"It is very important that every Christian affirm what I just said," he continued. "Not only should they affirm it, every Christian in today's society should be able to defend what I just said. Every Christian should be able to defend it ... Christians in America have been led astray on this topic. They've been led to believe things that the Bible doesn't teach, and when we go beyond the Bible, there are dire consequences."

Most American Christians don't think this way, fortunately.

[Anonymous]

I mean, can we just fast forward to the part where we find out this guy is a child molester or gay or has 5 kids with his African American mistress or all of the above? This is so boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...defends slavery. This is what American Christian Nationalism is:

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalist-commentator-joshua-haymes-says-slavery-not-inherently-evil

"The institution of slavery is not inherently evil," Haymes insisted. "It is not inherently evil to own another human being."

"It is very important that every Christian affirm what I just said," he continued. "Not only should they affirm it, every Christian in today's society should be able to defend what I just said. Every Christian should be able to defend it ... Christians in America have been led astray on this topic. They've been led to believe things that the Bible doesn't teach, and when we go beyond the Bible, there are dire consequences."

IOW, if it's in the Bible, it's OK??

No, it's even worse. Read the article.
These monsters preach "qualified immunity", but even worse: if it's not explicitly condemned in the Bible, it's OK, and *must not be challenged at all*. And the Bible will never get an update (unless you are Mormon).

I get it. It's a sin to disobey my parents but OK to give money to Pete Hegseth's pastor via Venmo

[Anonymous]

we think of slavery as the odious and indefensible North Atlantic slave trade, but Abraham had slaves. I mean what was Hagar but a slave? I can't be bothered to look them up right now, but there are numerous passages in the Bible that condone the practice of slavery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we think of slavery as the odious and indefensible North Atlantic slave trade, but Abraham had slaves. I mean what was Hagar but a slave? I can't be bothered to look them up right now, but there are numerous passages in the Bible that condone the practice of slavery.

Please stop consuming whatever it is that has made you this stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we think of slavery as the odious and indefensible North Atlantic slave trade, but Abraham had slaves. I mean what was Hagar but a slave? I can't be bothered to look them up right now, but there are numerous passages in the Bible that condone the practice of slavery.

Please stop consuming whatever it is that has made you this stupid.

explain please. What's stupid about it? Unless you got nothing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we think of slavery as the odious and indefensible North Atlantic slave trade, but Abraham had slaves. I mean what was Hagar but a slave? I can't be bothered to look them up right now, but there are numerous passages in the Bible that condone the practice of slavery.

Please stop consuming whatever it is that has made you this stupid.

? The passages in the bIble that outright condone slavery are too numerous to list

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we think of slavery as the odious and indefensible North Atlantic slave trade, but Abraham had slaves. I mean what was Hagar but a slave? I can't be bothered to look them up right now, but there are numerous passages in the Bible that condone the practice of slavery.

So some kinds of slavery are…defensible?

[Anonymous]

it’s a good question. I only point out that it was condoned in Biblical times, which was a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Hegseth also has a connection to Doug Wilson, a self-avowed Christian Nationalist and leader of a church in Idaho.

Wilson was interviewed by Ross Douthat (stay with me here) for his podcast last week -- I would encourage people to listen to the interview because it is educational on what these groups want and how they intend to get it.

Wilson's connection to Hegseth is also related to the "classical Christian education" movement, a movement pushing heavily for a shift to vouchers or to permit public charters to teach explicitly religious content, because they believe the path to making the US a Christian nation (they would say "returning to" but they like to gloss over the fact that many/most of our founders were barely Christian) is through indoctrination of children into these viewpoints.

Also, Wilson is up front about believing the US should be a *white* Christian nation, his movement is a white supremacist movement. They will focus on the Christian values part but the white part is important to them.

And on gender issues, among Wilson's goals are shifting the right to vote to "heads of households" which would mean women could only vote if they were single (ideally due to being widowed, as he believes in a patriarchal society where the role of women is to raise children and take care of the home).

Trump believes a lot of this crap too.

[Anonymous]

He also preaches taking away voting rights from women. He is a despicable POS.