Entschuldigung, GOP. Es gibt keine christliche Erweckung
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/07/sorry-gop-theres-no-christian-revival/
Entschuldigung, GOP. Es gibt keine christliche Erweckung
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/07/sorry-gop-theres-no-christian-revival/
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There’s nothing worse than Republicans masquerading as peaceful Christians. Let’s call it out for what it is: white nationalism.
A bit from the commentary:
> Turning Point USA ended 2025 with AmericaFest, a blowout conference for the MAGA powerhouse organization started in 2012 by the now-deceased Charlie Kirk. As described by Teresa Wiltz at POLITICO, “the vibe felt less like a political panel than an evangelical revival.” Watching the speeches from this fireworks-laden shindig, Wiltz’s observation felt like an understatement. Many speeches from the event’s main stage were simply sermons extolling a fundamentalist, evangelical Christianity as the one true faith.
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> The blunt reality is that AmericaFest wasn’t just overtly religious — it was steeped in Christian nationalism. They equated being an American with being a Christian. But being a Republican, as Crawford suggested in his speech, is synonymous with being an evangelical Christian whose main duty is to convert non-believers. The political message of the event was inseparable from a religious one: that the purpose of the GOP and the MAGA movement is to usher in a religious revival and turn a decadent, secular country into one devoted to a narrow, right-wing version of Christianity.
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> For decades now, the Christian right has been the most powerful and influential force in the GOP, and yet even by their standards, this marked a dramatic shift toward the theocratic impulse. From a purely rational perspective, this is bad politics. Only 23% of Americans identify as evangelicals.
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> But none of that seems to register with MAGA leadership right now. They’ve convinced themselves — or at least are trying to persuade their donors and followers — that the U.S. is undergoing a massive religious revival. Right-wing media has been pushing the view that huge numbers of Americans, especially young Americans, are converting to fundamentalist Christianity. The hype at AmericaFest suggests they are pinning their hopes on this imaginary religious awakening to deliver big wins to the Republicans in November’s elections.
I will say this about the modern GOP, they sure love to get high on their own supply.
There’s a reason they call it the „religious right“ or the „Christian right“, because they use the iconography and selective use of dubious versions of the bible shat out on them by preachers at megachurches who are just motivational speakers who selectively use some passages and NLP manipulation to dupe idiots by telling them what they want to hear – make sure to say it loud and angry and identify some clear villians for people to hate. Christ would love it.
Edit: I should clarify that, by modern standards, I think there is an excellent case to be made that Christ would be considered a Buddhist. I live in a Buddhist country. The ones who take it seriously look at us with disgust and horror.
Christianity is something republican politicians dont believe in, but pretend to, in order to fool voters.
Even though their actions are not Christian, just saying “oh ya i am Christian” is enough to get votes.
Weirdly, I actually have seen a surge in religious speech and talk… but it’s on the left.
Maybe it’s just my social circle, but a lot of people who distanced themselves from religion to avoid the Evangelicals have sort of done a 180 and taken a sort of “no, I like this thing, you don’t get to have exclusive claim anymore” approach.
Or in my case, “actually, I like it here, YOU get out.”
Edit: for clarity, this isn’t the theocratic, Supply side Jesus of the right, but people on the left stressing Christ’s anti-wealth, anti-greed messaging, and how VERY far the Christ most Americans are used to 40 years after Falwell and company started changing their religion to suit their politics are familiar with.
Very true. I’m in rural Alabama and the few times I’ve visited the local churches it became very obvious they have a big problem. Most of the small churches will fold in the next decade because of aging members. The one my mother goes to lost 9 members [all passed away] this past year alone. The average age is probably 68-70.
The younger members that do attend are often turned off by current messaging. That includes me. I’ve seen pastors go up in MAGA hats, say hateful things.
They may be gaining some, but they are bleeding members much faster.
Hot take from the midwest: White Christians haven’t been a big thing for a long time now. I grew up very rural, and the churchs were understood to be for the Mexican farm workers. I moved to other areas of the US where churches were understood to be black community spaces. I’ve recently moved to the south, and for the first time am meeting religious white people (not counting some Mormons I met earlier in my life).
I’m not some oddball. I’ve lived rural, urban, suburban and in 7 different states. Nationally and globally speaking, white people don’t do church. I keep telling the southerns it’s cool they are so into black culture. They don’t like that, but at least two have admitted to me they don’t like it because they know I’m right.
Sorry, GOP. An atheist I am, and an atheist I will remain. There is no converting me. Fuck off.
Sorry GOP ‘“christians”, we’re all repulsed by you.
I’m not sorry. That brand of Christianity where lies and deception are a recommendation rather than a prohibition is down right evil
myth. not even once
I think the next step is to try using a phoenix down
Isn’t it the opposite? Aren’t churches shutting down
If Christianity involved hating colored people in the name of god, we see a huge uptick.
I remember once hearing that the Republicans said they had failed on everything and are now just grasping at the religious card to stay in power. Trump was elected by just under 25% of the population.
The vast majority of Christian conservatives DO NOT CARE because being Christian is not actually a part of their lives. They dont actually go to church or read the Bible or pray or follow any kind of christian morality. They only pretend to be christian for essentially social and political clout.
I have a young white male relative. He was never religious at all, none of either side of the family is. He joined the military and came home with a bunch of Nordic rune tattoos, Thor’s hammer, helm of awe, some potentially eyebrow raising subject matter for a redneck white boy from nowhere Midwest USA with Scottish/Irish/English ancestry (I have extensive professional training in hate groups and gangs, I’m not a “TikTok researcher.”)
Last year he suddenly started going to church. Knowing the kid since he was like 5 years old, and paired with the recent interesting tattoo choices, I’m suspicious of the motives behind it
Statistics shows that this administration will have people leaving the church, not joining it.
There is nothing Christian about being Republican. They are so far removed from Christ’s teachings you can only weep for their inevitability.
“There’s no Christian revival.”
Thank god… For two millennia they’ve been the biggest war mongering, most evil group of people on earth. ISIS would need thousands of years to catch up to that.
But… Christianity always has and always will be #1 : the church has held the indisputable title for most children raped by any group in the history of mankind. Nothing ever has or ever will guarantee rape of children en masse more than the Christian church.
Christianity is simply a means to an end. These people don’t actually believe in God they only believe in power
I left the religion seeing my very Christian family worship Trump. I just couldn’t reconcile my former religion with the like of Trump who would go on to sell edited Bibles with his name on it.
I don’t miss it. It grew me as an individual with my own systems. The best thing is I get to sleep in on Sundays now.
You’d have to have Christian values to revive it.
From what I’ve seen, so much of this Christen revivalist stuff is being pushed by aging Boomers and X’ers, who often lived the wild life themselves, only to wag their fingers at younger people today.
This seems so performative (like a Super Bowl Halftime Show), that I’m skeptical it will take off the way they want it to.
The real revival will come when GOP voters have their come to Jesus moment and want out of Republican politics. See MTG as an example of the leading edge making their break. Too much of the modern republican party platform is in direct opposition to what’s written in the Bible. When the break comes, the GOP will hollow out.
Was raised Christian. It was MAGA-mentality (even pre-maga) that drove me away from all organized religion.
They politicized Christianity into something awful that no moral person would want to be associated with.
I grew up around a lot of Jimmy Carter Christians–heck, my mom was a minister’s daughter (said minister isn’t Christian anymore either). I grew up going to a church that was fine with gay marriage and split off from the main church branch to protest over Vietnam. I met so many wonderful, principled Christians who were horrified at how their faith was being mangled. And almost all of them were 60+ years old even back then.
When Christianity = the Iraq War, why would any young person want to be Christian? When Christian = denying healthcare, why would any young person want to be Christian. Most young people are fine with gay marriage relative to a few generations ago. My church was fine with gay marriage and had a gay minister. Republicans in our state demonized us and made it clear they would warp Christianity to go after gay people, going fully extracurricular from the bible. Why would any young people want in on this?
It’s kind of sad because there are beautiful things in Christianity. But all these Zeal-of-the-Land-Busy types are strangling their own religion to death even as they claim to love it. Let’s be real, though–if Jesus himself came back, these people would be the first ones in line to lynch him for challenging their infallibility complex.
GOP keep yellin “awakening” while their guy can’t quote a single beatitude. Silly mirror’s broke fellas
[Pew Research shows a dramatic drop in Christianity in the US.](https://imgur.com/a/wmyqFkL) No doubt due to rising Christian extremism.
„Conservative Christian audiences are notoriously gullible, so there’s a big market out there for attention-seekers and outright grifters to cash in using social media.“
Nailed it.
Religion and politics have no place being intertwined
There is a Nazi revival though.
South Park nailed it. American Christianity has no resemblance to the actual text, it’s just being a misogynist redneck who wants dominance over everyone else. They’ve tied themselves wholly to one party that clearly has no moral values, and as such it is evident that their faith is just as empty and meaningless.
Let’s be real… their version of Christianity is eerily similar to ISIS’ version of Islam tbh.
The GOP is long gone. There is only the cult worshiping a demented fragile old man who values his worth based on the wealth he has accumulated and the influence he bought using your money.
Matthew 22:2-6
>When John the Baptist was in prison, he heard what Jesus was doing. He sent his followers. They asked, “Are You the One Who was to come, or should we look for another?” Jesus said to them, “Go and tell John what you see and hear. **The blind are made to see. Those who could not walk are walking. Those who have had bad skin diseases are healed. Those who could not hear are hearing. The dead are raised up to life and the Good News is preached to poor people.** He is happy who is not ashamed of Me and does not turn away because of Me.”
So, what are we seeing today? Are we seeing the poor being taken care of, or the sick being healed, or the stranger being welcomed, or the unjust being reformed and brought to repentance? A religious revival should be marked by the conviction of conscience and acts of repentance. The powerful and wealthy should be seen trembling in fear and divesting themselves of the fruit of their greed. People like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos would sell off their assets and give it to the poor, or at least pay their own workers more generously and treat them with decency and compassion. And especially, the impulse to kill our enemies would be replaced by the realization that there are no enemies except for the enemy within our own hearts, and ‚the other‘ should receive welcome at hospitality and assistance.
But we see none of those things, of course. Especially along the Republicans, we see hostility and fear and greed and violence. And most grievously, we see that even the truth itself is not respected. We are seeing the opposite of revival.
The word „revival“ is made of root words with the meaning „to live again“. But, if anything, what we see among today’s conservative Christians is a cult of death.