Christian nationalists have crowned Donald Trump
as their new Christ
because he is everything the first one was not.
Jesus was poor.
Trump is rich.
Jesus was meek.
Trump is a bully.
Jesus lost.
Trump obsesses over winning.
If Donald Trump and J.D. Vance met Jesus today,
they’d ridicule him
a single, childless hippie
preaching peace in sandals.
They’ve rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Turn the other cheek?
They scoff—
“That got us nowhere.”
To them, love is weak.
Mercy is soft.
Kindness is woke.
They look down on Jesus
because he was poor,
because he forgave,
because he didn’t fight for power.
Religious authorities don’t own God.
Don’t own Jesus.
Don’t own America.
And they **** sure don’t own you.
Ask yourself:
What does your church fight for?
Which of Jesus’s teachings justify your politics?
Toxic fundamentalists
has Jesus become just a mascot
for a mean little club
that preaches superiority over service?
Christianity was never about dominance
but transformation.
To go beyond rules,
beyond borders,
into a deeper, truer love.
An action-verb love.
A doing kind of love.
Not performative purity
but radical compassion.
Because love is the true religion
that actually works.
How did we get here
where loving your enemy is weakness,
and loving your neighbor is radical?
They scorn the teachings of Christ
not because they don’t understand,
but because they don’t serve them.
Christian nationalism isn’t about Jesus.
It’s about the pursuit of power.
And power is their only god.
Sep 16, 2025
Sep 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM UTC
Christian nationalists have crowned Donald Trump
as their new Christ
because he is everything the first one was not.
Jesus was poor.
Trump is rich.
Jesus was meek.
Trump is a bully.
Jesus lost.
Trump obsesses over winning.
If Donald Trump and J.D. Vance met Jesus today,
they’d ridicule him
a single, childless hippie
preaching peace in sandals.
They’ve rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Turn the other cheek?
They scoff—
“That got us nowhere.”
To them, love is weak.
Mercy is soft.
Kindness is woke.
They look down on Jesus
because he was poor,
because he forgave,
because he didn’t fight for power.
Religious authorities don’t own God.
Don’t own Jesus.
Don’t own America.
And they **** sure don’t own you.
Ask yourself:
What does your church fight for?
Which of Jesus’s teachings justify your politics?
Toxic fundamentalists
has Jesus become just a mascot
for a mean little club
that preaches superiority over service?
Christianity was never about dominance
but transformation.
To go beyond rules,
beyond borders,
into a deeper, truer love.
An action-verb love.
A doing kind of love.
Not performative purity
but radical compassion.
Because love is the true religion
that actually works.
How did we get here
where loving your enemy is weakness,
and loving your neighbor is radical?
They scorn the teachings of Christ
not because they don’t understand,
but because they don’t serve them.
Christian nationalism isn’t about Jesus.
It’s about the pursuit of power.
And power is their only god.
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