Kansas Faith Community Argues Against MAGA & Christian Nationalism

Former newsman and blogger Bill Tammeus shares a bit of news and local "faith-based" outcry and/or pushback against political opponents who ALSO proclaim their connection with a higher power who has yet to reveal any preference for the nearly indistinguishable and overly exaggerated differences betwixt American political parties. 

Hint: There has been overwhelming bipartisan support for nearly every bit of U.S. bombing in the past 75 years.

Check-it . . . 

"In this commentary by leaders of Kansas Interfaith Action, which describes itself as "a statewide, faith-based issue-advocacy organization representing moderate and progressive people of faith in Kansas," Rabbi Moti Rieber and the Rev. Dr. Mandy Todd discuss several of their recommendations to other clergy about all of this. It's worth a read.

"Their particular concern is that the incoming Trump administration seems in many ways to promote the abhorrent idea of Christian Nationalism, even White Christian Nationalism, which amounts to a radical misreading of the gospels and a refutation of the idea that Americans should be free to follow any religious tradition without being coerced by the government."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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