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Led by Pope Leo but extending across Christian denominations, the rise of a genuine and global theological debate
is producing the sudden recognition that a kind of progressive Christianity long given over for dead seems to be stirring.
Christ is risen, as it were
– and if people of good faith push hard, the future could be redefined in powerful ways.

It’s no surprise Trump has met his match in Pope Leo – the US president represents the polar opposite of Christianity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/24/donald-trump-pope-leo-xiv-cathol…

By invoking his faith in wartime, Hegseth breaks with history
The defense secretary is upending decades-old norms,
and current and former leaders say his proselytizing violates the Constitution
and undermines troop cohesion.
A senior Army civilian who has worked in the Pentagon for decades said people who work there are afraid to talk to one another or their superiors about concerns over Hegseth’s actions.
The Army civilian, who spoke on the condition of anony…

Invoking faith in wartime, Pete Hegseth breaks norms and worries critics
The defense secretary is upending decades-old norms, and current and former leaders say his proselytizing violates the Constitution and undermines troop cohesion.

What Trump's Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/trumps-special-relationship-with-christianity
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p142#a260422p142

Scholars attack Trump ally [Peter Thiel]'s twisted theology as a dangerous delusion - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-ally-is-co-opting-christianity-so-technology-can-overtake-us/

Postmodernism and Christianity
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may view it as a problem, but it can be a resource for Christian philosophy, Christian mysticism, Christian apologetics, and even for the understanding of the Bible.

Postmodernism and Christianity | David Boles, Blogs
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may vi…

This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...

Is Christianity is the most intolerant and murderous of all religions? Islam has often been described as being spread by the sword - but it seems to me that that description is more appropriately applied to Christianity and its modern blood-lusty fundamentalist evangelists.
"Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran"

Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/hegseth-christianity-military.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p108#a260320p108

A group of nearly 400 prominent Christian leaders called Donald Trump’s administration
“cruel and oppressive”
and accused the government of being corrupted by an aberrant form of Christianity,
in an Ash Wednesday statement
https://acalltochristians.org/

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