Freeing From Faith

THE FAITH & FREEDOM COALITION is having its annual convention in Nashville, and Donald Trump gave a two hour speech, during which he again hammered home his big election lie, praised the violent Capitol insurrenctionists of January 6, 2021 as "patriots", and said that if he becomes president again, he will conisder issuing pardons to all those convicted in the insurrection. Even more alarmingly, his two hour rambling, inarticulate, often inchoherent rant was extremely well recieved by the several thousand far right wing conservative evangelical Christians in attendance, all of whom appear to suppport Trump as fervantely as ever. The evangelical Christian conservative community, shockingly, has always been Trump's support base, and remains so, despite everything. The Faith & freedom Coalition, founded by far right wing evangelical zealot Ralph Reed about a decade and a half ago, is indicative of, typical of America's Christian conservative pro-Trump mpvement, and is thus quite frightening. The very week that Trump's horrendous criminality in his attempt to steal the presidency from Biden and to overthrow the American govenment is being clearly, indisputably spelled out by Congressional hearings on television, his Christian conservative support base is once again confirming its approval and support of Trump's treasonous, traitorous words and deeds. The strange marriage between far right political, economic, and social conservatism and the Christian religion in America is more zealous, less moral, and less sane than ever. This extremist Christian conservative movement is the greatest threat to the United States and American democracy, being the culture from within which white supremacism, Chritsian nationalism, zenophobia, sexism, and racism emerge, spread, and defile American culture. The millions of Trump supporters who want the United States to become a theocracy, with the Christian faith the official national religion, are attempting to destroy the country the founders gave us. Their continued support of Trump, always reprehensible and contradictory to Christian principles, has gone from being indefensible to being traitorous, a deadly threat and danger to the continuation of American culture, democracy, and our very national existence itself. This is the movement which wants to criminalize women's reproductive freedom, criminalizine abortion, arm Americans to the teeth, do nothing about climate change and gun violence except pray, make it harder to vote, silence gay and transgender people, and ignore racism in social studies and history classes. Every core value they embrace is either evil, or madness. Fortunately, a majority of Americans, albeit a tenuously thin majority, strongly oppose this Trumpian madness.