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The Gospel According to MAGA: Why Christian Nationalism Isn’t a Contradiction
From the Doctrine of Discovery to the Trump altar call, faith has been recast as a tool of exclusion and empire
Christianity and the MAGA movement are linked in conversation all the time. Those opposed to MAGA say there is nothing God-like in the behavior on the far right. How can they possibly be upholding the ideals of Christianity while showing so little concern for the least of us in society? MAGA followers swear they are adhering to Christian values and ideals, which makes them right in all that they do. It seems impossible that God would support separating families, putting people in cages, and blowing people up in boats without a trial. I submit that God wouldn’t likely approve of any of these things, but Christianity doesn’t have a problem with any of them.
In America, many of the acts I feel God would be opposed to are perpetrated against a wide range of minorities. Are they not God’s children as well? The religious philosophy that allows “others” to be discriminated against evolved in the Catholic church and was quickly adopted by other major religions.
In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued Dum Diversas, authorizing Portugal to conquer non-Christian lands in Africa. In 1493, Pope…
