Elected officials who fly Christian nationalist flags: the list exposing them

[RoryN]

What a brilliant article.

A visual guide to the elected officials who fly Christian nationalist flags at the Capitol

Mara Richards Bim | April 3, 2025

Earlier this month I attended the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Advocacy in Action in Washington, D.C. On the fourth day of the gathering we headed to Capitol Hill to meet with our various representatives.

On the walk to the six buildings in which every U.S. senator and House representative offices, CBF’s director of advocacy, Jennifer Hawks, casually mentioned to me that — given my interest in Christian nationalism — I might be interested in seeing the Christian nationalist flags some of these politicos choose to fly alongside the American flag outside their offices.

Of course I was interested.

This is how I ended up spending six hours walking a total of 19 miles through the six office buildings at the Capitol. I walked by every single elected official’s office to document exactly which of them fly these flags.

See the article and list of Deplorables here

 

[Saint_Ann]

At least someone is still reading The Drudge Report.

 

[RoryN]

^^^

https://i.imgur.com/UE8jWAe.gif

 

[Saint_Ann]

I can't wait for your next awe inspiring next post.

 

[Escierto]

In nearly all the places that send these people to Congress, the inhabitants are mostly members of the Christian Taliban. So it's no surprise that their representatives are Christian fascists. In fact, AmeriKKKa is a Christian fascist country. The states that don't like it should secede.

 

[AngieGZC]

What is a Christian Nationalist? I have never heard of this country Christian....

 

[RobDownSouth]

What a brilliant article.

A visual guide to the elected officials who fly Christian nationalist flags at the Capitol

Mara Richards Bim | April 3, 2025

Earlier this month I attended the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Advocacy in Action in Washington, D.C. On the fourth day of the gathering we headed to Capitol Hill to meet with our various representatives.

On the walk to the six buildings in which every U.S. senator and House representative offices, CBF’s director of advocacy, Jennifer Hawks, casually mentioned to me that — given my interest in Christian nationalism — I might be interested in seeing the Christian nationalist flags some of these politicos choose to fly alongside the American flag outside their offices.

Of course I was interested.

This is how I ended up spending six hours walking a total of 19 miles through the six office buildings at the Capitol. I walked by every single elected official’s office to document exactly which of them fly these flags.

See the article and list of Deplorables here

The "Thin Red Line" flag is a new one for me.

The "Come and Take It" flag is very popular here in Texas.

The "Don't Tread on Me" flag seems to be dwindling.

The "Appeal to Heaven" flag is the worst of the worst: "Christianity uber alles. Jews and Muslims not welcome here." Gilead.

 

[RoryN]

Bump!

 

[Politruk]

natiWhat is a Christian Nationalist? I have never heard of this country Christian....

It is the idea that the U.S. is a country founded by and for Christians.

This is demonstrably false.

It is also somehow closely bound up with white nationalism, despite the pan-racial universalism of Christianity as commonly understood.

 

[Politruk]

The "Appeal to Heaven" flag is the worst of the worst: "Christianity uber alles. Jews and Muslims not welcome here." Gilead.

The "Appeal to Heaven" is a phrase and concept from Locke's Second Treatise on Government.

In context, it means appeal to war.

 

[AngieGZC]

It is the idea that the U.S. is a country founded by and for Christians.

This is demonstrably false.

It is also somehow closely bound up with white nationalism, despite the pan-racial universalism of Christianity as commonly understood.

I don't think Nationalism means what you think it means lol....

 

[Politruk]

I don't think Nationalism means what you think it means lol....

It is not always something associated with what is usually thought of as a "nation."

See "Notes on Nationalism," by George Orwell.

Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the French word longeur, and remarks in passing that though in England we happen not to have the word, we have the thing in considerable profusion. In the same way, there is a habit of mind which is now so widespread that it affects our thinking on nearly every subject, but which has not yet been given a name. As the nearest existing equivalent I have chosen the word ‘nationalism’, but it will be seen in a moment that I am not using it in quite the ordinary sense, if only because the emotion I am speaking about does not always attach itself to what is called a nation — that is, a single race or a geographical area. It can attach itself to a church or a class, or it may work in a merely negative sense, against something or other and without the need for any positive object of loyalty.

By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled ‘good’ or ‘bad’(1). But secondly — and this is much more important — I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests. Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.

So long as it is applied merely to the more notorious and identifiable nationalist movements in Germany, Japan, and other countries, all this is obvious enough. Confronted with a phenomenon like Nazism, which we can observe from the outside, nearly all of us would say much the same things about it. But here I must repeat what I said above, that I am only using the word ‘nationalism’ for lack of a better. Nationalism, in the extended sense in which I am using the word, includes such movements and tendencies as Communism, political Catholicism, Zionism, Antisemitism, Trotskyism and Pacifism. It does not necessarily mean loyalty to a government or a country, still less to one's own country, and it is not even strictly necessary that the units in which it deals should actually exist. To name a few obvious examples, Jewry, Islam, Christendom, the Proletariat and the White Race are all of them objects of passionate nationalistic feeling: but their existence can be seriously questioned, and there is no definition of any one of them that would be universally accepted.

 

[Bray123]

True Christians are socialists, by any interpretation of the teachings of the New Testament. It's only by delving into the shithole verses of the likes of Leviticus that Nationalists justify their bigotries.

 

[Lance_Castro]

America was founded by athiests who rejected the role of religion in the social contract, emphasizing the free will of the individual in its place.

In contrast here’s a good summary of how Canada differs from the USA in a quote from 1905 by Prime Minister Laurier:

“We live by the side of a nation in whose schools, for fear that Christian dogmas in which all do not believe might be taught, Christian morals are not taught. … when I observe in this country of ours, a total absence of lynchings and an almost total absence of divorces and murders, I thank heaven that we are living in a country where the young children of the land are taught Christian morals and Christian dogmas.”