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In a wide-ranging interview, Wilson said he opened a D.C. "church service" because of the number of Christians who adhere to his church's teachings within the Trump administration. One of the most prominent followers is Hegseth, who attends the newly opened D.C. congregation.

"If Kamala [Harris] had won the presidency, there would have been basically zero evangelicals in the White House administration," Wilson said. "And although Donald Trump is not an evangelical by any stretch … his administration is full of them."

That's why Wilson sees an opportunity for his beliefs to be seriously considered at this moment, including the belief that eventually the U.S. should be a Christian theocracy, whereby Christian principles dictate state authority and religion and politics are tightly intertwined.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Literally what they accuse Muslims of...

His focus now is on growing his movement through "preaching the gospel, planting churches, starting classical Christian schools" to gradually turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy over the course of several generations, despite the Constitution prohibiting the government from establishing an official religion.

Under that vision, Wilson told NPR that non-Christians wouldn't hold public office. Asked whether non-Christians would be allowed to vote, Wilson said, "Yes, probably," adding that there would be restrictions on public spaces for non-Christian activities.

"So probably the best illustration of this would be church bells? Yes. Minarets? No," he said.

Why?

"Because, the public space would belong to Christ," he added.

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

But it’s okay, because America is a Christian Nation™️

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I cannot tell you how many pearl clutching right wing assholes - and their Murc's Law assistants - would chastise me, try to get me silenced, etc., for talking about xtian Shariah Law and the Talibangelists - claiming "no such thing exists" and I'm just being "hateful" to point out right wing xtian extremism.

Yeah, no shit, they don't literally exist, but other than a few matters of doctrine, extreme conservative Muslims and extreme conservative xtians differ on very, very little and in fact worship the same god of the Hebrew bible.