Baptist Site Roasts DeSantis For Christian Nationalism

November 8, 2022 Christianists, Republicans

From the publisher of Baptist Global News:

The same weekend Ron DeSantis released a campaign video saying he had been sent to Florida directly by God on the eighth day of creation, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor offered an invocation at a DeSantis campaign rally and then tweeted a video of it with the assessment: “God has blessed the state of Florida by placing him in this office as his (God’s) servant for our good.”

While DeSantis is hugely popular with his evangelical Christian base, he has presided over some of the most cruel political and social policies in the state’s history, from blocking efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, to targeting transgender and gay children, to kidnapping immigrants from another state and shipping them to a third state as an act of political theater.

Christian nationalism has been defined as the merging of a particular kind of Christian faith with the political process — which is exactly what was on display in Tom Ascol’s political rally prayer. But Ascol and millions of other evangelical Republicans do not see this as a problem. To them, this is the way God has ordered the universe — apparently on the eighth day of creation.

Read the full editorial. Baptist Global News is affiliated with the Conservative Baptist Fellowship, a moderate wing that split off from the Southern Baptist Convention in 2002 over issues such as the ordination of women and the separation of church and state. Tom Ascol recently made a failed bid to head the SBC.



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