Denigrations, demotions, terminations, prosecutions and detentions are a few of the ways this tidal wave of retribution is sweeping over our country.
All this raises serious questions about the longer, deeper campaign by Trump’s supporters to reshape the United States into what they call a Christian nation (or a white Christian nation, as the rest of us call it).
What they mean by “Christian nation” is, in part, this:
- Privileged status for Christian (especially white evangelical) groups
- Reduction in government services (including those that help the poor or support scientific research)
- Replacement of public education with private, religious education
- Suppression of many free speech, free press traditions, especially those that criticize the government
- Elimination of refugee and immigration programs, especially those that are open to people of color
- Revocation of legal and marital rights for LGBTQ people
- Demonization of Muslims and limitations on their rights and opportunities
These items, and others, are added to their long-standing resistance to civil rights and human rights for people of color, as their campaigns against DEI and the Voting Rights Act illustrate.
This river of revenge running through the White House is but the latest in a long list of attitudes and actions that contradict the life and teaching of Jesus.