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I believe that the faith community needs to be careful about mirroring some of the “us versus them” framing and hyper-partisan and fear and grievance-driven tactics of the Religious Right/Christian nationalist movement.

Pastor Andre Wilson said “our hearts are broken” after confirming on Facebook that the more than 100-year-old faith community lost its church to the Eaton fire.

The White Christian leaders told their faith community that Donald Trump is going to protect them from Armageddon and Satan.

“We cannot ignore the painful wounds that exist within the Catholic faith community and wider society,” he said, before addressing Pope Francis personally.

In this conversation, Onishi explains how Trumpism is a de facto type of right-wing “Christian” religious political movement and the ways that White Christianity has made support for right-wing extremism a litmus test for being members of that faith community and therefore real “Christians.”