“President Trump spoke at Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast in a God-and-country infused speech that would appeal especially to people who appreciate Christian nationalism”
Nice editorial comment to start off with to frame the article. What a disgrace.
What was The Donald thinking? Giving honor to God and America at a prayer breakfast???
WaPo hates, Hates, HATES Christians.
Remember when Obama used a prayer breakfast , to tell us to get off of our high horse , because of alleged Christian atrocities committed during the Crusades??
My Lord, who woulda thunk.
I watched it, It was uplifting, it was inspiring. It was all about God's Grace!
Ah, it was a prayer breakfast.
So nice to not hear about islam.
I should have searched youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zkUfXMlKyg - but I wanted to see the WaPo spin...
The WaPo readers must be cognizance impaired to read that crap. Unreadable propaganda written by ethically-challenged morons!
"What raises up heroes and martyrs is the fear of God. Beside the terror of God’s judgment, the atrocities of the totalist tyrant are pinpricks. A God-intoxicated man, knowing that divine love and divine wrath are but different aspects of a unity, is sustained against the worst this world can do to him; while the goodnatured unambitious man, lacking religion, fearing no ultimate judgment, denying that he is made for eternity, has in him no iron to maintain order and justice and freedom. Mere enlightened self-interest will submit to any strong evil. In one aspect or another, fear insists upon forcing itself into our lives. If the fear of God is obscured, then obsessive fear of suffering, poverty, and sickness will come to the front; or if a well-cushioned state keeps most of these worries at bay, then the tormenting neuroses of modern man, under the labels of “insecurity” and “anxiety” and “constitutional inferiority,” will be the dominant mode of fear. And these latter forms of fear are the more dismaying, for there are disciplines by which one may diminish one’s fear of God. But to remedy the causes of fear from the troubles of our time is beyond the power of the ordinary individual; and to put the neuroses to sleep, supposing any belief in a transcendent order to be absent, there is only the chilly comfort of the analyst’s couch or the tranquilizing drug. By fashionable philodoxies (opinions) of our modern era, by our dominant system of education, by the tone of the serious and the popular press, by the assumptions of the politicians, by most of the sermons to the churchgoers, post-Christian man has been persuaded to do what man always has longed to do—that is, to forget the fear of the Lord. And with that fear have also departed his wisdom and his courage. Only a ferocious drunken farmer is unenlightened enough to affirm a primary tenet of religion in great red letters, and he does not know its meaning. Freedom from fear, if I read St. John aright, is one of the planks in the platform of the Antichrist. But that freedom is delusory and evanescent, and is purchased only at the cost of spiritual and political enslavement. In ends at Armageddon. So in our time, as Yeats saw, Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Lacking conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, the captains and the kings yield to the fierce ideologues, the merciless adventurers, the charlatans and the metaphysically mad. And then, truly, when the stern and righteous God of fear and love has been denied, the Savage God lays down his new commandments. Sincere God-fearing men, I believe, are now a scattered remnant. Yet as it was with Isaiah, so it may yet be with us, that disaster brings consciousness of that stubborn remnant and brings, too, a renewed knowledge of the source of wisdom. Truth and hardihood may find a lodging in some modern hearts when the new schoolmen and the parsons, or some of them, are brought to confess that it is a terrible thing to be delivered into the hands of the living God. . . ." - "The Rarity of the God-Fearing Man" - Russell Kirk.
Hopefully the concern trolls who were oh-so-worried he might be an atheist are resting a bit easier - now if they could only get a grip on their other “concerns”....
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The Washington Compost hangs its head in sorrow.
Eff’m!
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It’s been nearly three decades but we finally have a true Christian as President
Christian Nationalism? Never heard of that movement or organization. Probably just another “hate group” conjured up by the SPLC hate group.