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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 04:54 AM Nov 2021

'Christo-fascist' Mike Flynn makes 'terrifying' and 'dangerous' call for 'one religion' in the U.S.

Mike Flynn, former president Donald Trump's one-time national security adviser, called for "one religion" in the U.S. on Saturday.

"If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion," Flynn said at a ReAwaken America event in San Antonio. "One nation under God, and one religion under God."

https://www.rawstory.com/michael-flynn-2655547552/]
Emphasis mine



Saw a short clip floating around of Michael Flynn calling for “one religion” in America.

I took a moment to dig to make sure the broader context was, in fact, Christian nationalist in nature.

Answer: Yup, and it arguably gets *even more so* the longer you watch.


Under his eye... if they had their way...



Theocratic far right extremists same the world over... nothing to go with faith, everything to do with power and control, patriarchal control freaks they are, and they all need to do one.
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'Christo-fascist' Mike Flynn makes 'terrifying' and 'dangerous' call for 'one religion' in the U.S. (Original Post) Soph0571 Nov 2021 OP
He does that because he knows that's what the cult wants to hear. He'll say anything! PortTack Nov 2021 #1
+1 Celerity Nov 2021 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Roisin Ni Fiachra Nov 2021 #19
It worked so well in Europe resulting in religious wars for years on end. Just what we need, not. olegramps Nov 2021 #11
What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge? keithbvadu2 Nov 2021 #3
We have plenty of folks who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America keithbvadu2 Nov 2021 #4
Think a moment....this guy was National Security Advisor of the United States ashredux Nov 2021 #5
All I can say to that is... 2naSalit Nov 2021 #6
for sure! jaxexpat Nov 2021 #7
I get what you're saying. 2naSalit Nov 2021 #8
One religion... Zoroastrianism rpannier Nov 2021 #9
Interesting that religion... tavernier Nov 2021 #16
Alas, many people are too toxic for vultures... hunter Nov 2021 #24
"this is a moment in time where this is good vs. evil" nuxvomica Nov 2021 #10
I see he has gathered his "brain trust" on the stage behind him. LastDemocratInSC Nov 2021 #12
Sounds like Flynn wants a religious and racial war. Chicago1980 Nov 2021 #13
All Flynn, and rest the t* cult r doing childfreebychoice Nov 2021 #14
This guy was a military general? Was he too close to an exploding ordinance and is now suffering... usaf-vet Nov 2021 #15
One rule under one church has been a chief Christian tenet since it's founding in 326 AD vlyons Nov 2021 #17
as long as it's mine, ShepKat Nov 2021 #18
It's pellucidly clear: We all must unite against fascism, Roisin Ni Fiachra Nov 2021 #20
THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH IS BREAKING APART Mosby Nov 2021 #21
Does Flynn the Catholic, Itchinjim Nov 2021 #22
The Catholic fascists are discovering they have a lot in common with the Evangelical fascists. hunter Nov 2021 #25
Guess it was his job to float the idea now. LiberatedUSA Nov 2021 #23
It isn't terrifying or dangerous, it is the rantings treestar Nov 2021 #26
so much for freedom of religion! only one acceptable religion. demigoddess Nov 2021 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex Nov 2021 #28

Response to Celerity (Reply #2)

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
11. It worked so well in Europe resulting in religious wars for years on end. Just what we need, not.
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 07:27 AM
Nov 2021

Just think we could have massive MAGA hoards celebrating the burning at the stake for heresy. And not to forget the joy of drunken lynching parties. Generous bounties will also stimulate the economy of rural hamlets.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
3. What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 05:43 AM
Nov 2021

NC Lt. Gov. Robinson Declares That 'Christian Patriots' Will 'Own This Nation and Rule This Nation'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215997136

What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist= ;

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
4. We have plenty of folks who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 05:45 AM
Nov 2021

Dominionists. Theocracy... We have plenty of folks who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America

ashredux

(2,698 posts)
5. Think a moment....this guy was National Security Advisor of the United States
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 05:49 AM
Nov 2021

National Security Advisor of the United States !!!!!!

Elections have consequences….

We came so close to losing America under Trump….the nuts were given permission to come out from under their rock…

 

jaxexpat

(7,794 posts)
7. for sure!
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 06:41 AM
Nov 2021

It's, perhaps, not coincidental that a Christian cross and the cross-hairs on a rifle scope are so similar. Talk about separating the quick and the dead.

disclaimer............That's my shining forth. I DO NOT condone killing people.

2naSalit

(94,993 posts)
8. I get what you're saying.
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 06:50 AM
Nov 2021

But that asshole is painting himself with leadership of a modern day crusade. He should be committed or at least sequestered in some way, for the sake of national security. I'm looking at you DHS.

tavernier

(13,376 posts)
16. Interesting that religion...
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 07:51 AM
Nov 2021

It doesn’t accept homosexuality, yet the most famous offspring of Zoroastrianism parents was a gay man whose musical genius and compositions and charisma will long outlive that man-made religion.

hunter

(39,227 posts)
24. Alas, many people are too toxic for vultures...
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 01:20 PM
Nov 2021

... especially at the end of their lives when their remains might contain all sorts of medicine.

Endangered vultures have been killed by veterinary medicines given to animals that later died.


nuxvomica

(13,119 posts)
10. "this is a moment in time where this is good vs. evil"
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 07:21 AM
Nov 2021

He got that right, but he and his crowd are definitely the evil. It's never been more clear.

childfreebychoice

(476 posts)
14. All Flynn, and rest the t* cult r doing
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 07:45 AM
Nov 2021

is saying the quiet bits out loud. Gays, not only back in the closet, but forced to mental hosps/jails, women to back ally abortions, and only rethug's version of history taught in schools...their idea of making America great again. I wish I had enuf hope that they won't cheat win in 22/24. Every day I wake up in Panama, so happy to be expat, cuz as black, prochoice, atheist, childfree, by choice, surely I would be headed for the gallows. There was a time, when even I would say I was over-exaggerating, sigh, but not in today's political climate.
Stay vigilant, and stay safe

usaf-vet

(7,223 posts)
15. This guy was a military general? Was he too close to an exploding ordinance and is now suffering...
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 07:46 AM
Nov 2021
.... from traumatic brain injury?

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
17. One rule under one church has been a chief Christian tenet since it's founding in 326 AD
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 08:17 AM
Nov 2021

Yes I wrote 325 AD -- not the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. That's when Constantine the Great convened the 1st council of Nicea to answer 3 questions, one of which was: is Jesus a god, a prophet, a son of god, what? Because if Jesus was divine then what about the bit of there being only 1 god? So they came up with the dogma of the Trinity -- 3 in 1 --- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Anyone who didn't agree and confirm that the Trinity was so got labeled a heretic and run out of town or murdered. The Christian Church was a Roman invention, and the Roman's had a very brutal society, run by war-mongering patricians. Sound familiar? All that stuff about Jesus is love and peace -- that's what they say, not necessarily what they do.

As a Buddhist myself, I'm pretty sure they would burn me at the stake.

BTW: Many of the founding fathers were not "Christians" per se. They were Deists. Oh they went to church, but I think that was mostly for social reasons.

ShepKat

(449 posts)
18. as long as it's mine,
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 08:17 AM
Nov 2021

then I'm ok with that *snark

"Everybody wants everybody else to be on the same page... theirs" - Kathy Wain

Roisin Ni Fiachra

(2,574 posts)
20. It's pellucidly clear: We all must unite against fascism,
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 09:22 AM
Nov 2021

and remain united and steadfast in our resolve to prevent the fascists from destroying democracy, and our nation itself.

All other issues of importance pale in comparison, for if we do not stop the fascists, all is lost.

Forever.

The time for squabbling over other issues is after we contain the fascist threat.

Itchinjim

(3,128 posts)
22. Does Flynn the Catholic,
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 10:55 AM
Nov 2021

know how hardcore Christians feel about Catholicism?
That "one religion" ain't gonna have no Pope, Mikey.

hunter

(39,227 posts)
25. The Catholic fascists are discovering they have a lot in common with the Evangelical fascists.
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 01:27 PM
Nov 2021

It's beginning to be a real love affair that won't end well.

The god they worship is an asshole because they themselves are assholes.

 

LiberatedUSA

(1,666 posts)
23. Guess it was his job to float the idea now.
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 11:02 AM
Nov 2021

Give a radical idea with intent to be eyerolled, as did Trump’s decent down that elevator, but let the idea sit and sink and spread.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
26. It isn't terrifying or dangerous, it is the rantings
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 01:29 PM
Nov 2021

of a lunatic. There is no chance they would get that. They can say they want it all they want.

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