Make no mistake; our own Christian nationalists are no less zealous than Israel's Zionists, Iran's Shiites, Saudi Arabia's Sunnis, or Afghanistan's Taliban. If they get the power they so desperately seek, they will do to anyone who does not cow-tow to their radical, anachronistic, brain-dead, fundamentalist belief system what theocracies do to their infidels (e.g. arbitrary arrests and beatings for petty infractions of religious codes, summary execution for "heresy," etc.). 
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.If Christians in the USA have not yet managed to build this fourth branch, they will not do it now either. There has never been a shortage of devout, God-fearing , Bible-Thumping Christians in American politics , there have been x awakenings, there has been George W. Bush (when he introduced prayer at cabinet meetings, many believed that the USA would soon be a theocracy)
Thibaud70
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Nov 22, 2023
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We certainly hope they will never succeed, but assuming that they can't is probably not the best way to go about insuring that they never do.
We are already on a slippery slope. The Christian nationalists have already managed to place the words "In God we trust" on our money, and "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. These unfortunate changes took a long time to occur, and did not happen recently, but we should not feel too relaxed; their proponents are playing a long game.
We have never been closer to losing our democracy than we are right now. We have an openly authoritarian candidate for the presidency (one with deep support among Evangelical Christian voters) whose loss in the last election came down to only a few tens of thousands of votes spread out over several purple states. His followers are committed and not likely to back a 3rd-party candidate. Can the same be said of the incumbent's supporters?
Beware! A false sense of security could be our undoing.
@Flyingsaucesir
Sure, but the Christians in the US don't need to create their own branch, they just infiltrate the existing branches. They even voted for an unrepentant sinner like Trump because he promised them he would stack the courts with conservatives like them (and he delivered!)
"If Christians in the USA have not yet managed to build this fourth branch, they will not do it now either. "
1939..."If the Boshe had not yet managed to conquer France by now, they would not do it now either."
2022 " If Christians in the USA have not yet managed to overturn Roe vs Wade by now, they will not do it now either."
I could go on but misplaced complacency is too myriad to need that much repeating.
Now before you bring up the boy who cried "wolf". Remember that that story was written by the guys who let a wolf eat the kid and that the real moral is to take every threat seriously.
Fact; the Christian right HAS succeeded in its decades-long plan to take over SCOTUS. They HAVE managed to get one of their own to two heartbeats from being POTUS. They HAVE managed to take over the GOP to all intents and purposes. Yes, there has been pushback in Ohio etc. but there have also been measures to circumvent this in the courts.
This is hardly the time for the American members of this site to take the threat lightly.
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