Mark Robinson, the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, recently appeared at the American Renewal Project, where he made it clear that he believes that the survival of the United States depends upon worship of the Christian god. He told the crowd there:
“We talked about how you need to stay, you need to make sure that the focus is god, because America needs god, and without god there will be no more United States of America. I’m sorry. You can get mad at that statement all you want to. You can twist it any kind of way you want to, but without the wisdom of Jesus Christ, without the knowledge of Jesus Christ, without the sharing of his word, without the freedom of his word, the United States of America as we know it will no longer exist.”
Keep in mind that Robinson wasn’t speaking as a Christian preacher. He was invited to attend this event in his role as the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. Mark Robinson’s view of politics in the United States is centered around Christianity. He believes that Christianity defines the nation, and that non-Christians are a challenge to the authority of Christianity. He described his Christianity as under siege. He told the crowd at the American Renewal Project,
“You’ve got to be ready, because they’re going to come after you. The news media is going to come after you. The activists are going to come after you. That person who believes that a man can have a baby is going to come after you, and when they come after you, they’re not going to come after you just trying to get you to be quiet. They are literally going to try to destroy you. Not only are they going to try to take your voice from you, they’re going to try to take your church from you. They’re going to try to take your business from you. They’re going to try to take your family from you. They’re going to try to take your friends from you. They are literally going to try to destroy you, and you had best be ready. You’ve got to be ready, because they’re going to come after you.”
Is Mark Robinson right? Are non-Christians coming after Christian politicians? Are Christian politicians having their families taken away from them?
I challenge you to find an instance of this taking place. On January 6, 2021, Christian Nationalists stormed the halls of the United States Congress carrying handcuffs, pepper spray, knives and nooses. They called for the execution of America’s top elected leaders. There are no cases of equivalent violence against Christian political leaders by opponents of Christian Nationalists. It just hasn’t happened.
Mark Robinson's claims of persecution of Christians in America is based on nothing but paranoia. When he warns about people who are going to “come after” Christian Nationalists, he’s just talking about Christian Nationalists being criticized. He’s saying that journalists will write articles about what Christian Nationalist politicians say and do. He’s talking about voters daring to disagree with the actions of Christian Nationalists. He’s saying that politicians will be confronted by the opinions of people who don’t approve of their Christian Nationalism. If Christian Nationalists don’t face anything other than other people’s ideas.
Christian Nationalists, on the other hand, are actually trying to make same-sex marriages illegal, using the power of government to destroy these families. They’re working to make Christianity the official government religion of the United States, to make American a Christian nation where other religions are not permitted. Christian Nationalists aren’t just pointing out other people’s words, they’re making death threats. They’ve stormed the US Capitol building, violently attacking Capitol Hill police officers in an actual attempt to overthrow the federal government of the United States of America.
Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson made it clear the extremes that Christian Nationalists are willing to go to in order to deal with political criticism. He told the audience at the American Renewal Project that Christians should prepare to engage in violence to defend their power. Robinson said,
“You had best believe in the environment we live in right now, if you are going to stand for what god believes in, you had best saddle up, lock and load, and get ready, because they are coming after you.”
“Lock and load” is a phrase that became popular after it was used by a character played by John Wayne in the war movie The Sands of Iwo Jima. “Lock and load” is an instruction to grab a gun, fill it with ammunition, and be prepared to fire it upon command.
When Mark Robinson told Christian Nationalists to “lock and load”, he was instructing Christian Nationalists to put ammunition in their guns and get ready to attack the opponents of Christian Nationalism.
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is the one who is telling his followers to "come after" people. He's inciting violence, and because of his Christian privilege, he's not being held accountable for it.
This is an excerpt of a longer article at Stop Christian Nationalism.
I sure won't feel bad for him if someone shoots or beats the shit out of this asshole, but I would feel bad about him getting the sympathy and proof he seeks to justify his paranoia... Just yet another reason I would never want to live in the South, where pols of his kind are so common.. We don't need more of the things he says we need more of, instead, we need less religion, fewer guns, and more people with critical thinking skills. Instead, we get more and more of the former two things. More religion in politics and more guns on the streets...
These nuts are the dangerous ones, not the people who simply don’t buy their bullshit!
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