> When Pete Hegseth moved to Washington, DC to lead the US military for the Trump regime, Doug Wilson opened a new church just blocks from the US Capitol. Wilson is a religious extremist from Idaho who believes that the 19th amendment, which guarantees women the right to vote, was a bad idea and empathy for the most vulnerable in society is a “sin.” He also started a network of churches, one of which Pete Hegseth joined in his hometown in Tennessee. Hegseth couldn’t find a church home in Washington, DC, because he does not believe the gospel taught in most churches. Wilson had to move to DC to start a church for Hegseth and the extremists who wanted to work for him at the Pentagon.

> When Jesus says, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” Hegseth thinks our Lord makes Christians looks weak. While Jesus taught the nonviolent discipline of “turn the other cheek,” Pastor Wilson tells Hegseth he doesn’t have to listen. Though Jesus teaches that those who live by the sword will die by the sword, Pete Hegseth doesn’t hear it as a sober warning, but as a call to arms. This is a “Christianity” that is directly opposed to the teachings of Christ.

> This is why we refuse to call “Christan nationalism” Christian. Sociologists rightly describe the overwhelmingly white and reactionary adherents of this distorted moral narrative in the language they use to describe themselves—that is, as Christians. But we are pastors who made a promise to proclaim the gospel and teach the doctrines of the Christian church. So we have a duty to be clear that a faith that celebrates the birth of its founder by incinerating perceived enemies is not Christianity. It is anti-Christ.



The Bombs of Anti-Christmas