Heidi Przybyla, a reporter for Politico, appeared on MSNBC this week and expressed concern when she explained that Christian nationalists believe Americans' rights are given by God, not Congress or the Supreme Court.
Aside from its absurd distinction between Christian nationalists and other Christians, Americans' rights come from God and not from government, as anyone knows if they read the country's founding documents.
How is this person allowed to comment on politics on television with this level of dishonesty or stupidity? This is a perfect example of why trust in the media has deteriorated.
Text via Real Clear Politics:
HEIDI PRYZYBELLA: I've talked to a lot of experts about this and you've seen it in my reporting, Michael, that the base of the Republican Party has changed. Remember, when Trump ran in 2016, a lot of mainstream evangelicals didn't want to deal with the divorced real estate mogul who cheated on his wife with a porn star and all that.
So what happened was he was surrounded by this more extreme element. We will hear words like Christian nationalism, like “New Apostolic Reformation.” These are the groups you should learn well because they hold so much power in Trump's circle. The one thing that unites them all is that there are so many different groups revolving around Trump.
But the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, and not Christians because Christian nationalists are very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans and as all human beings do not come from any earthly authority. It comes not from Congress, from the Supreme Court, but from God. The problem with that is that they define, men, they define what God tells them. In the past, so-called “natural law,” a pillar of Catholicism for example, has been used for good in social justice campaigns. Martin Luther King invoked it in his speech about civil rights.
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here @MSNBC He helpfully illustrates their disdain for Christians in America.
She says that if you believe that your rights come from God, then you are not a Christian, but rather a Christian nationalist.
Somehow they don't seem to mention that our founding documents make this… pic.twitter.com/WTLMqcqTzg
– Wade Miller (@WadeMiller_USMC) February 23, 2024
It's just amazing. These are the people who drive political news in the country.
