“'It has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too harsh for white evangelicals to support,' Robert P. Jones, the president of the Public Religion Research Institute, recently wrote."

Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:

@wdlindsy If there's a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel. it's the notion that this is the death throes of white supremacy. It's festered for centuries in various forms, knowing that its dominance over society was slipping away. But, instead of just dying out, it has to launch one last-ditch, desperate offensive against social progress. It can do a lot of harm, but in the end, it can't win.

William Lindsey :toad:

Yesterday Catholic VP Vance defended the use of a five-year old boy in Minnesota as "bait" to entrap his family, and the detainment of that child by ICE.

It has just been announced that Vance has been invited to address the upcoming "March for Life" which purports to be about defending the sanctity of life and has strong support by Catholic and other Christian leaders.

#Trump #MAGA #JDVance #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #ProLife
/7

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/22/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-maine-jd-vance/88297862007/

William Lindsey :toad:

@Steve I agree. I've spent my life hoping for this outcome — having come of age in the US South and having seen untold misery created by many of my fellow white citizens, almost all of them Christians, as they did all in their power to resist according rights to people of color. Though they imagine they have brought misery only on those they disdain, they've brought it on their own heads, on all of our heads — and they are unable to see what they've accomplished.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region."

~ Jack Jenkins

#Minnesota #ICE #DHS #clergy #rabbis #churches #immigrants
/8

https://religionnews.com/2026/01/22/hundreds-of-clergy-descend-on-minneapolis-and-go-on-lookout-for-ice/

Steve Woods

@wdlindsy #ICE = state-sponsored child abuse.

#Minnesota #Minneapolis

William Lindsey :toad:

"In 1845, a group of pro-slavery Baptists created the Southern Baptist Convention to defend enslavers serving as missionaries. One hundred and eighty years later, SBC leaders defend a pastor serving as an ICE leader."

~ Brian Kaylor

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/9

https://wordandway.org/2026/01/23/the-line-from-enslaver-missionaries-to-an-ice-pastor/

William Lindsey :toad:

"While ICE terrorizes people in the Twin Cities, the acting director for the St. Paul field office is also one of the pastors at a Southern Baptist congregation there. After learning about the dual roles of David Easterwood, a group of activists interrupted Sunday worship on Jan. 18 to protest ICE, Easterwood, and the church."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/10

William Lindsey :toad:

"The U.S. Department of Justice quickly promised to press charges against the protesters and many pastors, with three individuals arrested on Thursday."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/11

Huntn00

@wdlindsy MAGA Jesus is Satan wearing a Jesus outfit for Halloween… 🧟‍️

Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:

@wdlindsy Unlike Lincoln's conciliatory position towards the South after the Civil War, we need to stigmatize white supremacy actively and bluntly, which is (primarily) the responsibility of white people. That doesn't rule out forgiving people, but they need to see the error of their ways first.

William Lindsey :toad:

"There are two stories I’ve thought about in contrast with each other this week. The first was the Southern Baptist pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota, who is also the acting field director for the St. Paul ICE office."

~ Brian Kaylor

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/12

https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-roundup-jan-23

William Lindsey :toad:

"Later, I saw an article about a Minneapolis sex shop that pushed aside their adult toys and other products so volunteers can use the space to organize needs to help immigrants and other vulnerable people in the community."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/13

William Lindsey :toad:

A pastor is a leader of the militarized force terrorizing his community. A sex shop has transformed itself to help serve its neighbors. The words of Jesus to the religious leaders are fulfilled.

'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'”

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/14

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺

@wdlindsy Somebody should get hold of a bullwhip and lash that folk out of the temple.

Michael Collins / Mr. 30㎝ / 🍆💦 :over18: 🔞

@wdlindsy@toad.social
What these MAGA churches and preachers are preaching is anything but Christianity. These are the same people that would execute Jesus on the spot for being a foreigner.

William Lindsey :toad:

Holly Berkley Fletcher's brilliant non-apology disguised as an apology to her MAGA white Christian friends who claim she has offended them by speaking the truth about Trump is a must-read essay.

A sampler:

"I should acknowledge your feelings that the 2020 election was stolen despite no evidence of such being presented in over 60 court cases."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/15

https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/an-apology-to-those-i-have-offended

William Lindsey :toad:

"I should acknowledge your feelings that the 2020 election was stolen despite no evidence of such being presented in over 60 court cases. Forgive me for not realizing that judgements in our society are made not in courts but by violent mobs, and that when the leader of the mob gets reelected President and then pardons everyone, that changes the official record."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/16

William Lindsey :toad:

"I apologize for implying you are a racist because you voted for an administration that seeks to end all non-white immigration, expel even legal immigrants, revoke the citizenship of non-white people, is only admitting white 'refugees,' and violate the Constitution in pursuit of these goals."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/17

William Lindsey :toad:

"I should acknowledge that you can personally love people whom your chosen President scapegoats, stereotypes, and actively harms. I should give you more credit for all the mission trips you have taken to countries your President calls 'shitholes,' the economies of which he is crushing with policies that were discredited a century ago that also harm Americans."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/18

William Lindsey :toad:

Holly signs her brilliant screed with a cheeky and right-to-the-point,

"Your sister in Christ,

Holly"

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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