White Christian Nationalism has taken over the White House

As Trump proclaims, the separation of church and state is over ("forget the separation of church and state"), what takes its place in the White House? It appears it is White Christian Nationalism, if not in words, at least in deed.  Its actions that clearly target cleansing the US of as many brown people as they can are clearly racist as well as political.  Tactics used are not Christian, based upon hatred and fear of neighbors not like you, and treating people cruelly are not either.  Trump is not noted for his devotion to the teachings of Christ, but his history of racism is a theme throughout his public life.  The two, white Christian Nationalism and racism, have found a home in the White House.  The shaper of the inhumane treatment of migrants from south of the border, the person setting the the goals for the warehousing of brown people caught in the dragnet of ICE (put them all in concentration camps if they look brown and speak Spanish, then figure out which ones get deported while depriving the imprisoned of legal representation), is looking more and more like Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff.  His background also reeks of White Christian Nationalism. 

Update: 3/6/2026  Is the US being led into Iran war by a religious radical who sees this as a holy war?  In a scary vein is Pete Hegseth head of the Department of "War".  His view of Christianity is of the crusades and he sees life in terms of this. If he sees Iran as a holy war, we should be more than concerned.. Rationality is out the window.

 It's Pete Hegseth's theology that ought to concern us – Baptist News Global

What to know about the archconservative church Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends | PBS News

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric

From my prior posting on this blog:

The real shame is that so many Americans share or tolerate (Trump's)racism.

The other shame is that his racist whisperer is in his ear daily and given a permission slip to proceed. Stephen Miller, on his staff has a long history of white nationalism. If anything, Miller's contribution to the Trump regime is his anti-immigrant stance, including using the cruelty of family separation as a tool and in deporting immigrants without due process. He is viewed as an extremist in these sensitive matters. Given his anti-immigrant reputation, I doubt that the Bill of Rights and the civil rights-related amendments would be high on his required list of curriculum topics. The Southern Poverty Law Center tags him as an extremist.https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/stephen-miller/. Miller is in charge of this ICE project aimed at ridding the country of as many brown people as he can under the pretext that migrants are criminals when 70 percent of those they grab have no criminal record.. ..but are brown and are both American citizens and who only committed a misdemeanor of being undocumented. Miller's campaign involves eliminating the birthright citizenship of those born in the US and cleansing them from this country.

The irony is that not all Christians buy into this ideology of White Christian Nationalism, particularly the Catholic Church and the Council of Bishops. Almost all of those victims of ICE's dragnet and cruel warehousing are Catholics. In addition, a large array of Protestant churches that are not part of the "evangelical movement" have had members actively participating in opposing ICE actions, including Presbyterians, Methodists, Unitarians, and others. Their motivations are not legalistic, but moral, religious, and being humane to their neighbors. They have moved the more popular description of migrants promoted by Donald Trump himself from "murderers and rapists" to "neighbors" in the Biblical sense. Good Samaritans have taken the place of racists and nationalists in many minds.

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One of the most puzzling aspects about those who are completely devoted to Trump the leader is that some feel a religious zeal to see him as a second coming, or a Christ-like figure:  While none of us is free from sin, not all sins are the same. Some are worse than others, and the early Catholic church came up with a list we also call "the seven deadly sins". Dante wrote a classic about it.  It's as good today as it was then as a starting point to rate the personal relative morality of ourselves or others. There might be a better role model out there. Per our friend at AI google: here they are:"They are considered root sins that lead to other immoral actions, consisting of pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, lust, and gluttony. 

Here is the list of the seven deadly sins with their definitions:

• Pride (Hubris): Considered the original and most serious sin, it is an excessive belief in one's own abilities and a sense of superiority over others.
• Greed (Avarice): An excessive desire for material possessions, wealth, or gain.
• Lust: An intense, uncontrolled longing or craving, particularly for sexual pleasure.
• Envy: The desire to possess what someone else has, coupled with sadness or resentment at their good fortune.
• Gluttony: The overindulgence or excessive consumption of food, drink, or other items to the point of waste.
• Wrath (Anger): Uncontrolled feelings of hatred, rage, and animosity, often leading to a desire for vengeance.
• Sloth: Extreme laziness, apathy, or the failure to utilize one's talents and act upon103 duties. 

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