Nina Willburger<p>Bishop Mariann Budde's word of thank</p><p><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/mariannbudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mariannbudde</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/bishopbudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bishopbudde</span></a></p>
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EpiscoGrrl<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>knittingknots2</span></a></span> I am so tired of the media perpetuating the myth that: "It's not surprising," Penny Edgell, professor in the sociology department at the University of Minnesota, tells Axios.</p><p>"If you're more progressive, you might look at religion and say that the mainstream religious institutions don't reflect my values," particularly when it comes to topics like LGBTQ+ inclusion, she says.” Perpetuating this false narrative is doing as much damage to inclusive mainstream denominations striving to live the Way of Jesus as the white-Christian nationalist churches are. Maybe more, since it’s often left leaning, liberal, progressive media with significant LGBTQ+ & minority audiences that are pushing it. Let me be clear: the <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/EpiscopalChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EpiscopalChurch</span></a> welcomes everyone. <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> in her marvelous homily the day after the inauguration did indeed speak the beliefs & values & actions of <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/Episcopalians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Episcopalians</span></a> across the nation. I encourage everyone to visit us & see for themselves. <a href="https://episcodon.net/tags/christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christian</span></a></p>
Black White Blue in the South<p>In Episode 52, Jumelle reveals she is a biblical scholar after watching a Bishop make a plea to President Trump.</p><p>Subscribe, download and listen today! <a href="https://linktr.ee/bwabits" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">linktr.ee/bwabits</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ShowMercy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShowMercy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mercy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Melania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Melania</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Esther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Esther</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bible</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheBible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBible</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/irEpSr_Ki64" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/irEpSr_Ki64</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Black White Blue in the South<p>We continue our conversation with Michael Layer, candidate for SCDP 3rd Vice Chair as we cover pressing news items and other miscellanea.</p><p>Subscribe, download and listen today! <a href="https://linktr.ee/bwabits" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">linktr.ee/bwabits</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Watch this episode on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/64P_EMsDB_s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/64P_EMsDB_s</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SCPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCPol</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SCPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SCEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/jan6pardons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jan6pardons</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jan6</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/immingration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immingration</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AOC</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EllenWeaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EllenWeaver</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GreenwoodSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenwoodSC</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a></p>
Ada Fredelius<p>Fun fact if I have any followers from the US: Bishop Mariann Budde is a cousin of an editor for Sweden’s largest news paper. Thus I find this interview in my paper: </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/bishopbudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bishopbudde</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Sadly, it appears that over the next few years in the United States there will be many situations justifying and requiring parrhesia directed at the administration and American society as a whole. It remains to be seen if those who exercise a prophetic ministry are up to the challenge."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TruthtoPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TruthtoPower</span></a> <br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Throughout the history of the Church, preachers and others have exercised parrhesia toward emperors, kings, nobles and others in power, sometimes paying for their courage with their lives."</p><p>And as Grimm notes, </p><p>"Parrhesia is not directed solely at secular power. The bishops and superiors who covered up the abuse of children and vulnerable people by clergy and other Church workers have faced parrhesia."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TruthtoPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TruthtoPower</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>William Grimm comments on Bishop Mariann Budde's decision to speak uncomfortable to Trump's face:</p><p>"There is a category of rhetoric technically known by the Greek word parrhesia, usually defined in English as 'speaking truth to power.' The word conveys not only the right to speak truth to those who do not want to hear it but the duty to do so regardless of the cost."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TruthtoPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TruthtoPower</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.ucanews.com/news/speaking-truth-to-power/107726" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ucanews.com/news/speaking-trut</span><span class="invisible">h-to-power/107726</span></a></p>
Larry Neufeld<p>People all around the world are standing with <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> in the face of Trump’s attacks. Let’s show the Bishop that we support her. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/HaveMercy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaveMercy</span></a> <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/bishop_under_trump_attacks_loc/?twitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/b</span><span class="invisible">ishop_under_trump_attacks_loc/?twitter</span></a></p>
Christie Elan-Cane<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> spoke truth to fascism. The fascist didn't like it.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpIsUnfitForOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsUnfitForOffice</span></a> </p><p>People all around the world are standing with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> in the face of Trump’s attacks. Let’s show the Bishop that we support her. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HaveMercy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaveMercy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/bishop_under_trump_attacks_loc/?twitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/b</span><span class="invisible">ishop_under_trump_attacks_loc/?twitter</span></a></p>
Rev. Charles Browning<p>Since the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Episcopal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Episcopal</span></a> Church is in the news (thanks to the witness of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a>), let's take a look at two gifts of "Episcopalianism" and how they speak to our understanding of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> in our context.</p><p>Click the below link at 6:00 pm Hawai'i time to go live, or bookmark it to watch later!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/kHBAd5SjeoM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/live/kHBAd5SjeoM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@samlitzinger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>samlitzinger</span></a></span> </p><p>"AOC? Pete? Someone else?"</p><p>There is no one else</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s relentless <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> monsoon has rendered everyone terrified into silence</p><p>Speaking of Trump's <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Brownshirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brownshirt</span></a> thugs, have we heard how many threats <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> has received about her church or her house being burned down?</p><p>No?</p><p>Why not?</p><p>Don't believe it hasn't happened yet</p>
DC Books to Prisons<p>Although our mission is to send BOOKS to prisoners, sometimes we also send loose paper. For example, during the early days of the pandemic, when lockdowns had cut off our usual source of books, a volunteer responded to a request for Christian books by printing a few sermons by <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> and sending those. One recipient was so grateful for the bishop's wisdom that he created artwork consisting of Bible verses starting with each letter of the bishop's name.</p><p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/MariannBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MariannBudde</span></a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/MariannEdgarBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MariannEdgarBudde</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Mercy shouldn’t be controversial, but in the current insanity, it is."</p><p>~ Mark Jacob</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliticsofHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticsofHate</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/mercy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mercy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a><br>/14</p><p><a href="https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/we-can-fight-off-trumps-onslaught" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">stopthepresses.news/p/we-can-f</span><span class="invisible">ight-off-trumps-onslaught</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Blessed are the merciful<br>by Nick Anderson</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/EditorialCartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EditorialCartoon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cartoon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Budde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Budde</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MariannBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MariannBudde</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Mercy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>A.R. Moxon contrasts how Trump voters dealt with Musk's Nazi salute, and how they dealt with Bishop Budde's sermon"</p><p>"There was a quick and vigorous response to this homily from many of the same people who had just days before rushed to defend the Nazi billionaire. Their response was far less confused about the bishop's meaning than it had been about the billionaire's: As far as they were concerned, it was a vicious attack."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/salute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salute</span></a> <br>/12</p><p><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-and-the-billionaire/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">the-reframe.com/the-bishop-and</span><span class="invisible">-the-billionaire/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"This is an opportune moment to offer the sad observation that a significant chunk of the German Christian community fully or almost fully embraced the Nazi traditional values program in the early 1930s, and a similarly large chunk in our land today endorses the reactionary traditional values program of the state and new federal governments that I am speaking about."</p><p>~ David Gushee</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Bonhoeffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bonhoeffer</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/7</p><p><a href="https://davidpgushee.substack.com/p/the-moment-we-have-been-preparing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">davidpgushee.substack.com/p/th</span><span class="invisible">e-moment-we-have-been-preparing</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Bystanders who are not anti-LGBTQ+ zealots but are frightened of the state and its most aggressive partners – for example, in online spaces – will do what bystanders do. They will try not to get in the way, try not to attract negative attention, will keep quiet."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a><br>/11</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Looking again at the Nazi years, we have much evidence that can help us think ahead to worst-case scenarios and scenarios just less than worst case.</p><p>We can anticipate that reactionary majority-church Christians will applaud all kinds of steps that could be taken to set back LGBTQ+ dignity and rights. Ater all, that’s what many of these groups have been pressing for over many years time."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a><br>/10</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"If a politician comes along at just the right moment and says – I stand with you, I will restore you to the status quo ante, I will overturn the changes you do not like – it seems to be the most natural thing in the world for these reactionary Christian populations to be all about such politicians."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BishopBudde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BishopBudde</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a><br>/9</p>
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