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What’s going on at Charlie Kirk’s MAGA pastorfest?

John Fea   |  September 16, 2023 Leave a Comment

MAGA pastors are in San Diego this weekend as part of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Faith event. Get up to speed here.

Here’s what has happened so far:

Let’s begin with Charlie Kirk. He is suggesting that evangelicals missed out on a revival during COVID-19 becuase not enough of them were involved in politics. Is Kirk’s God so small that He needs politics to advance a revival in the church?:

Notice how Kirk’s view of Imago Dei is tied solely to abortion. It doesn’t go much further than that. Why? Because this limited view of human dignity appeals to his base and pays his salary.

We have already noted Eric Metaxas’s call to holy war, but here it is again. Metaxas believes he knows the will of God as if he has some special hotline. This is arrogance, not Christian humility.

More holy war language from General Boykin of the Family Research Council:

FRC's Jerry Boykin, a retired special forces general, has a history of urging right-wing activists to go to war against the LGBTQ equality movement https://t.co/4IWkSncIsi

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 16, 2023

Back to Kirk. He is still floating the David Barton claim that 55 of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were “Bible-believing, church-attending Christians”:

When I hear people like James Lindsay talk like this, I wonder just how many elementary school teachers are really “grooming” kids. Most teachers I know are overworked and underpaid and just trying to teach kids how to read and do basic math. Where do they get the time to “groom”?:

I’m not really sure how to respond to these claims. Sounds like some fancy Christian right culture-war exegesis.

Manly men:

Apparently the press is missing the “we want drag queens” part of Bidenomics. And as long as we are talking about drag queens, why not go all the way and call for a theocracy:

Obviously, if President Biden had his way, he'd decree that every school in the nation hire a drag queen as principal! https://t.co/OvVBdVBrjA pic.twitter.com/0gsdDa0lTL

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 15, 2023

Father Calvin Robinson, a speaker at this event, does not believe Christians can co-exist with Muslims (of course the original tweet is also a over the top as well):

WE WILL NOT

Do you agree with Fr. Calvin 👇 https://t.co/fx7C1XI7hT

— TPUSA Faith (@tpusafaith) September 15, 2023

Blessed are the peacemakers:

Just found PEACE

do you agree? 👇 pic.twitter.com/svM7RRdn1X

— TPUSA Faith (@tpusafaith) September 15, 2023

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Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: Charlie Kirk, Christian nationalism, Christian Right, evangelicals and politics, God and country, Turning Point USA

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