If you can’t read the small print, here’s what it says: “I’m Excited to hear both these biblical worldview candidates address the increasing crime coming out of Denver” and “This is Rural America, and we stand proud!!! A constitutional patriot with biblical values is running for one of our commissioner spots, and we are around to support him.” The first picture highlights Amy Mitchell and Jason Gemmer, and the second is Jason Gemmer.
The MAGA-based Park County Republican Central Committee has taken to X (Twitter) to declare their commissioner candidates view the world through the Bible. That concerns me. Not because these folks are Evangelical Christians; anyone in America can believe any damn thing they want to and worship how and where they choose. What concerns me is that religious fundamentalism that encompasses a worldview presupposes that whatever in the world doesn’t comport to their particular focus must be fixed and brought into alignment with what they believe is their God’s mandate for them to do. Fix It!!! Come hell or high water, Fix It!!!
Radical Islamic fundamentalism encompasses a worldview that erases the lines between religion and civil government. Christian Dominionism does the same thing.
I borrowed the following two paragraphs from this earlier post.
Although Christians account for only 30 percent of the world’s population (40% of America’s population is Protestant, with 24% of that 40% identifying as evangelical), Christian Dominionists in America, certainly in Park County, wear their righteousness on their sleeves. They can’t help it. Their politics is the Bible. Their Bible is the roadmap to their intent to establish One World Christianity. It’s in their DNA.
I will apologize, if only for the sake of continuity, for taking the detour into the realm of Christian Dominionist religiosity, which I believe is the foundation of MAGA populism. I think it is dangerous to our republic, hazardous to the democratic principles upon which our republic was founded, and the avenue through which demagogic authoritarianism will trample the founders’ and framers’ intentions, operational now for 236 years.
This blog is replete with what I perceive are severe and genuine dangers to our republic from the machinations of MAGA Evangelical Christians intent on fusing their God with our Civil State. Only a couple are here, and here.
