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Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 76573797" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p>Underpinnings</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://religionnews.com/2022/02/09/new-report-details-the-influence-of-christian-nationalism-on-the-insurrection/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark" target="_blank">New report details the influence of Christian nationalism on the insurrection</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Christian nationalism was used to 'bolster, justify and intensify the January 6 attack on the Capitol,' said Amanda Tyler, head of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.</strong></span></p><p></p><p>“God is on Trump’s side. God is not on the Democrats’ side,” [Georgia lawyer and Capitol rioter] Calhoun allegedly <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-lawyer-who-kicked-pelosis-door-during-riots-denied-release-over-social-media-posts-1563538" target="_blank">wrote in a social media post</a>. “And if patriots have to kill 60 million of these communists, it is God’s will. Think ethnic cleansing but it’s anti-communist cleansing.”</p><p></p><p>On Wednesday, Whitehead described Christian nationalism as a “cultural framework” bolstered by “mutually reinforcing” elements that spurred the violence at the Capitol, such as the █████ movement and the erroneous belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.</p><p></p><p>[Sociologist] Perry argued Christian nationalism not only fueled the Capitol attack but also is being used by some to radically reinterpret the Jan. 6 attack in ways that obscure fact or even valorize participants.</p><p></p><p>Perry, for his part, explained there was a “slight backing away” from Christian nationalism in the aftermath of the insurrection. But the smaller group that remained, he said, has become “more radicalized, more militant, more willing to respond to the threat of democracy with anti-democratic threats and deals.”</p><p></p><p>“I really hope people wake up and recognize it for the threat that it is,” he said.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/stop-the-steal-cult-january-6/index.html" target="_blank">This man marched on the US Capitol on January 6. Now he says 'Stop the Steal' is a 'cult'</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"I felt like a patriot that was standing beside our Founding Fathers speaking up against King George," Scott told CNN in an interview on the one-year anniversary of the insurrection. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">A year on, Scott is blunt about the movement he was a part of, calling it a cult. His story is complicated -- he still believes much of the "Stop the Steal" propaganda, for example -- but his journey is illustrative of how Americans like him, who said he had never attended a Donald Trump rally, get caught up in a movement based on misinformation and how it takes over their lives.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">He spent the next few months living mostly in his car, driving through the night and across the country to almost every "Stop the Steal" rally.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><em>And he kept thinking he'd soon hear the evidence he was looking for</em></strong> -- from Giuliani, or Trump-connected lawyer Sidney Powell or Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn. "The people that were giving evidence of election fraud, so to speak, it was the same message that we had heard a day before or weeks before. It was, 'It's coming. It's coming. It's going to be revealed,'" Scott said. "Just keeping us holding on for the next breath."</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 76573797, member: 294566"] Underpinnings [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://religionnews.com/2022/02/09/new-report-details-the-influence-of-christian-nationalism-on-the-insurrection/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark']New report details the influence of Christian nationalism on the insurrection[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B]Christian nationalism was used to 'bolster, justify and intensify the January 6 attack on the Capitol,' said Amanda Tyler, head of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.[/B][/SIZE] “God is on Trump’s side. God is not on the Democrats’ side,” [Georgia lawyer and Capitol rioter] Calhoun allegedly [URL='https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-lawyer-who-kicked-pelosis-door-during-riots-denied-release-over-social-media-posts-1563538']wrote in a social media post[/URL]. “And if patriots have to kill 60 million of these communists, it is God’s will. Think ethnic cleansing but it’s anti-communist cleansing.” On Wednesday, Whitehead described Christian nationalism as a “cultural framework” bolstered by “mutually reinforcing” elements that spurred the violence at the Capitol, such as the █████ movement and the erroneous belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. [Sociologist] Perry argued Christian nationalism not only fueled the Capitol attack but also is being used by some to radically reinterpret the Jan. 6 attack in ways that obscure fact or even valorize participants. Perry, for his part, explained there was a “slight backing away” from Christian nationalism in the aftermath of the insurrection. But the smaller group that remained, he said, has become “more radicalized, more militant, more willing to respond to the threat of democracy with anti-democratic threats and deals.” “I really hope people wake up and recognize it for the threat that it is,” he said. [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/stop-the-steal-cult-january-6/index.html']This man marched on the US Capitol on January 6. Now he says 'Stop the Steal' is a 'cult'[/URL][/B] [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"I felt like a patriot that was standing beside our Founding Fathers speaking up against King George," Scott told CNN in an interview on the one-year anniversary of the insurrection. A year on, Scott is blunt about the movement he was a part of, calling it a cult. His story is complicated -- he still believes much of the "Stop the Steal" propaganda, for example -- but his journey is illustrative of how Americans like him, who said he had never attended a Donald Trump rally, get caught up in a movement based on misinformation and how it takes over their lives. He spent the next few months living mostly in his car, driving through the night and across the country to almost every "Stop the Steal" rally. [B][I]And he kept thinking he'd soon hear the evidence he was looking for[/I][/B] -- from Giuliani, or Trump-connected lawyer Sidney Powell or Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn. "The people that were giving evidence of election fraud, so to speak, it was the same message that we had heard a day before or weeks before. It was, 'It's coming. It's coming. It's going to be revealed,'" Scott said. "Just keeping us holding on for the next breath."[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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