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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jamalderrick OP 15 Nov \ parent \ on: The False Light: How “Family Values” Became a Mask for Racial Preservation Christianity
Not at all, Dearborn isn’t a “problem” to me.
What I’m unpacking is how certain Christian-Right networks train people to interpret any demographic shift as a spiritual threat.
I recently left a church after realizing its election message wasn’t organic. The pastor openly said he leaned on two national figures plugged into the modern Christian-Right political machine — one a Family Research Council/TPUSA Faith partner fined for partisan preaching, the other invited to the Trump White House and known for telling Christians they “can’t vote left.”
That’s when the language clicked.
The rhetoric wasn’t coming from scripture; it was coming from a well-developed political-theology pipeline that began decades ago. The
same pipeline seeded by groups like the Pioneer Fund, which turned racial hierarchy → moral hierarchy → “spiritual warfare.”
That’s where fear narratives about places like Dearborn get manufactured.
And the irony is, the Founders already answered this whole debate.
Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli:
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
That was unanimously approved by the Senate and signed by President John Adams.
My focus isn’t left vs right. It's tracing how modern political messaging gets repackaged as gospel.
The kingdom of God has a border.
I give side-eye to those who critique the religious right, but leave the religious left alone. Far more concerning to me is the religious left.
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I’m not defending the left, and to be clear, I’m concerned when any political alignment mistakes its platform for the gospel itself. I’m recognizing a 90-year pipeline — starting with the Pioneer Fund in the 1930s — that pushed scientific racism into the New Right and eventually into parts of white evangelical political messaging. What I’m seeing today isn’t random; it’s the result of that long process finally surfacing.
And for what it’s worth, the borders of the Kingdom of God don’t look anything like the borders of earthly nations.
The Kingdom welcomes the helpless, the homeless, the immigrant, the poor, the downtrodden, the sinner, and people of every nation. That’s its border policy.
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