In the midst of the invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Jacob Chansley, the bare-chested man in Viking horns who’s come to be known as the QAnon Shaman, stopped his fellow marauders in the Senate chamber to pray. “Thank you Heavenly Father for gracing us with this opportunity … to send a message to all the tyrants, the communists and the globalists, that this is our nation, not theirs,” he said. “Thank you for filling this chamber with patriots that love you and that love Christ. Thank you for allowing the United States of America to be reborn.”
The prayer, caught on video by New Yorker reporter Luke Mogelson, was just one moment among hundreds that day illustrating how deeply the insurrection was intertwined with Christian nationalism. Across the sea of protesters in and outside the building, t-shirt and ball-cap slogans proclaimed it: “Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president”; “God, Guns, […]
But the domestic terrorists professing Christ, killing and bringing hateful violence to our nations Capitol, forgot the greatest COMMANDMENT Christ ever gave before He ascended.
John 13:34 “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you -that ye also love one another.
A peaceful transfer of power, would have been more along the lines of following Jesus, because you just can’t do the opposite, and call it what it’s not.
All sorts of people twist the words in the Christian Bible to fit their own agenda. It is shameful !