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>Politico Reporter on MSNBC Frets That Christian Nationalists Believe Americans’ Rights Come From God, Not the Government
Guess she’s never read the Declaration of Independence. Is she even really an American?
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, thatall men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. (…) But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Look at what a Christian nationalist is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism
That’s what they say about it, it’s clearly just being used as a slur to suggest that Christians are trying to impose their religion on the rest of us: while trying to ignore the Declaration of Independence sized elephant in the room. This country was quite literally founded on the idea that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL AND ARE ENDOWED BY OUR CREATOR WITH UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.
It’s also founded on the idea of religious freedom: freedom of and FROM religion is baked in. So this poor ignorant cunt is just try ignore to divide anyone who isn’t a Christian from the idea that our RIGHTS derive from the CREATOR.
She is trying to push the wedge between belief groups while gaslighting people into thinking that this is some kind of extremist view that only “Christian nationalist” hold. She uses this particular slur because the definition of Christian nationalist is essentially group of Christian’s trying to impose their religious beliefs on everyone else.
You can be both Christian and a Nationalist and not be trying to impose upon the religious freedoms of anyone else.
Do not let them divide us.
It’s not an extremist view to believe we derive our rights from our creator - it is foundational to the country and the position of every American by DEFAULT. And it goes further to prove her extreme idiocy: that government is only there to secure these rights, and government itself only DERIVES its power from the CONSENT of the Governed.