Posted on 12/11/2023 11:01:58 AM PST by Morgana
Rob Reiner’s God and Country documentary has been quite the signal by those featured in it that they hate Christian traditions. Whereas David French and Russell Moore have long been exposed as bad actors, this still fails to trickle down to many normies. Phil Vischer being caught in a lie about Rob Reiner’s involvement with the project showcased that the documentary was originally titled The Power Worshippers, named after Katherine Stewart’s book.
Katherine Stewart is a New York Times columnist and the author of the book, The Power Worshippers. William Wolfe points out in a lengthy thread that Katherine Stewart is admittedly unfamiliar with Christian theology.
Katherine Stewart (@kathsstewart), author of The Power Worshippers (which@robreiner‘s documentary against Christians Nationalism is based on) admits she doesn’t even know Christian theology in her own book.
Wolfe continues:
Stewart argues that: “For too long now America’s Christian nationalist movement has been misunderstood and underestimated. Most Americans continue to see it as a cultural movement centered on a set of social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, preoccupied with symbolic conflicts over monuments and prayers. But the religious right has become more focused and powerful even as it is arguably less representative. It is not a social or cultural movement. It is a political movement, and its ultimate goal is power” (23).
Here again is that word: power. As she examines the rise of the Moral Majority and their opposition to abortion, support for traditional (biblical) gender roles, etc., it is all viewed through the lens of power.
In an interesting admission of disinterest at best and ignorance at worst, Stewart acknowledges that she will “leave it for theologians to decide whether their views are consistent with Christian teachings” (24).
One would think that the question of whether or not these widely-held Christian positions on relevant political issues are theologically informed, or even constrained (that is, faithful Christians have no other position that they can hold that is in keeping with their theology) would be of primary interest to a chronicler of Christian nationalism. Because if so, said positions are a matter of faithful discipleship, not power politics.
The anti-Christian Nationalists are not sending their best.
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His entire claim to fame is one role he played back in the 1970s. Who knew he was paying himself? {snicker}
what a surprise. He’s making it for his own kind anyway. Everyday Americans could give a rats @$$ what Robbie thinks
What would an old commie like him know about religion?................
The meathead is a Christophobe.
People may stray outside them and no one does anything much beyond frown and go "tisk tisk" as long as you are not bringing minors into your antics.
Even pagans thought that getting married, having kids and teaching them how to be just members of the group was something to aim for. Sure they had affairs on the side with just about everything but the core was there.
I remember a Reiner quote from years ago: “these F**king Christians are destroying the country”
I know nothing about this movie/doc, but I’ll bet he gets a lot of things RIGHT about “organized religion”.
Why do I say that? Because there is a lot WRONG with “organized religion”.
I love the rock group RUSH.
In their later years it became more apparent that the guy that wrote the lyrics had a limited understanding of God and Christianity. (He was an atheist probably). But he obviously thought he understood as he wrote his “powerful” lyrics.
They are Libertarians. ....................
I’ve seen a gay man who says he is a right-wing extremist claim meathead is a homophobe, because he accused Gloria (played by Sally Struthers) of overmothering the baby.
This was where the gay guy was making claims that Rob Reiner hates gays. Beginning in post #57.
Will he succeed in stopping that wascally Jesus, where millions before him have failed???
Guess we’ll just have to wait and see :)
He’s just setting up the strawman
He has another claim to fame... he is one of the people behind Newsguard.
Katherine Stewart, the nutcase who was claiming covid was spread by Christians ...
I missed that bit of meathead’s lack of wisdom.
The Marxist Nationalist made a Christian movie?
How ironic.
Your aid and comfort to an enemy that wants a vast conservative group exterminated or removed from society is noted.
Exactly.
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