Concerns about underlying racism at a North Carolina church exploded into the open after the church leadership issued a statement on the Jan. 6th insurrection that has split the congregation, according to a report.
According to the Washington Post, the Chapel Hill Bible Church once had a solidly interracial membership, but has seen an exodus of non-white congregants in the months following the riot at the Capitol.
As the Post's Yonat Shimron wrote, former church members complained "church leadership over the past several years has turned inward, drawing boundaries around orthodox beliefs and dismissing or demeaning members’ concerns.
"That has led to the departures of many families of all races who complained of the church leadership’s lack of transparency and care," before adding, "But the loss of non-White members has been especially pronounced, especially since white evangelical Christian congregations have made efforts in recent years to repent of the sin of racism and court a younger, more multiracial generation."
According to the report, the catalyst for the flood of membership losses goes back to concerns about Jan. 6 and how the church responded to it.
Asked by the church elders to provide a statement on the riot, Pastor Jay Thomas, wrote, "[P]olitical affiliation, policy commitments, political parties, the details of the election, how to interpret the details and meaning of the raid on the Capitol, and the like, are not so clear and straight-lined from Scripture that this is the moment to say A is right and B is wrong, or vice-versa."
That set off a firestorm among the church members, with former congregant Walker Hicks recalling, "It was the kind of Trump language of ‘good people on both sides. It just provoked all sorts of distress and dismay and trauma among congregants of color and made them feel more alienated and confused and unsupported.”
Lisa McConnell, who resigned from the church in February, said the schism was a long time coming, as non-white congregants, many of them Asian, felt they were not respected by the church leadership.
“Over the years, many programs that brought in people from the community were canceled by the pastors,” she explained “We witnessed the church becoming more homogeneous.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that liberals had recently flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court because conservatives failed to put forth a plan to ban abortions.
In a Sunday interview, Fox News host Shannon Bream told Graham that critics claim the Republican Party's stance on abortion is causing election losses.
"Isn't that what happened this week in Wisconsin, where the pro-choice candidate won by 10 points getting a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court?" Bream asked.
"Well, I'm very pro-life, and I think being pro-life is a winning message. I oppose late-term abortions," Graham said, shifting the topic. "I have a bill to set a national minimum standard of 15 weeks. 50 of the 53 European nations ban abortion at 15 weeks. I have an exception for rape, incest, and life of the mother. In Wisconsin, you had an 1840 statute that banned abortion pretty much across the board, and the Republican Party did not put an alternative on the table. If you're pro-life, you need to explain what that means."
Graham insisted that he wanted to "protect as many babies as possible."
"The Democratic solution when it comes to abortion is taxpayer-funded abortion up to the moment of birth," he claimed. "That's barbaric. That's like China. That's like North Korea. We can win this issue at the ballot box if we show up with reasonable positions."
PolitiFact has previously determined that a similar claim by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was false.
"PolitiFact has rated multiple statements making similar claims about Democrats supporting the execution of children False," the organization said. "We rate this claim False."
“Israeli society has erupted into some of the largest sustained protests in its history,” the report states. “The world has watched for months as hundreds of thousands of Israelis demonstrate to prevent Israel’s slide into outright authoritarianism.
“As the protests have grown, however, a number of Israel’s Christian allies have grown frantic at the discord while calling on their followers to pray for the unity of the Israeli people. Some of these Christian Zionist leaders even blame “liberal” Israeli protesters—and their supposed foreign “deep-state” funders—for widening rifts that threaten the security of the Jewish State which, they believe, plays an integral role in God’s plan.”
Religion Dispatches cited an email sent on March 27, 2023 by Capitol Hill Prayer Partners, a far-right group based in Washington D.C.
“Israel as a nation has never been in as much danger as she is right now!” the email stated. And it “names ‘external forces from the Deep State/globalists [who] have used their sway to funnel monies to the liberals in Israel, to fund these protests,’” the report noted.
Writer Aiden Orly offered this observation:
“In addition to being an antisemitic trope, the idea that a group of liberal elite power players is orchestrating mass protests against authoritarian power grabs—or in favor of LGBTQ rights, racial equality or other progressive causes around the world—has become a main far-right talking point according to expert Ben Lorber, my colleague at Political Research Associates.
“Many far-right pundits have attributed blame to these same forces for, among other things, inciting the Arab Spring in 2011 and orchestrating the supposed theft of the 2020 election from Trump.”
And he offers this conclusion:
“While they’re frequently omitted from the discussion, Christian Zionists are the largest, and most far-right base of support for Israel in the world, as well as the backbone of U.S. support for Israel, according to former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer. It can be difficult to parse out their professed “love” for Jewish people from an underlying agenda that reinforces Israeli apartheid and marshals Jews to carry it out. All in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
Former President Donald Trump participated in an "emergency prayer call" after he was arraigned over hush money payments to cover up an affair with a porn star.
In a call-in event with Intercessors for America on Tuesday, Trump began by thanking spiritual adviser Paula White.
"We've had a long time friendship, and we've prayed together, and we've loved our families together; we've just loved," he said. "And we're fighting for many other things together. We're being discriminated against as a religion. We're being discriminated against as a faith. And we can't let that continue."
Despite his arrest, Trump claimed he was "having a great day today, actually, because it turned out to be the sham."
"But one thing that I've always remained solid on, that is our faith, our religion, our Christianity, our beautiful Christianity," he continued. "And one of the things I think, and I really believe this, and perhaps the main thing that our country needs again is religion. We have to have religion. We're losing our religion in our country."
White explained the purpose of the call.
"We're so grateful for your heart, for your fight, for your stamina," she opined. "We know you stand at the front on behalf of us all. And as we offer up these prayers for you and your family, we can secure your life, your purpose, your calling. We pray just supernatural wisdom over you and strength to you."
"This army of believers is blowing up everything right now," she added. "Just shows how loved you are."
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) declined to criticize her son with Bible verses after he got his girlfriend pregnant out of wedlock.
In a Thursday podcast, host Dave Rubin asked Boebert about her reaction to becoming a grandmother at the age of 36.
"Obviously, I'm a Christian, and there are standards that we like to uphold, but none of us do it perfectly," she explained. "One of the biggest things that I look to is 'him who knows to do right and doesn't; it's sin.'"
"And I mean, there's things all throughout the week that I know is right to do," she continued. "And sometimes, I don't do them. And so we can nitpick what the Bible says is right and wrong, but I think just having that heart posture of wanting to serve God and do the right thing is so important."
Boebert revealed that she would have chosen a different path for her son if she could, but she praised the couple for deciding against having an abortion.
"Of course, but this is where we're at, and we're all embracing it, and we're so happy," she remarked.
She said that because of the pregnancy, her son had given up dreams of attending Universal Technical Institute in Florida. Instead, her son planned to take petroleum engineering courses at the community college.
"So certainly there are some beliefs that you, like wait, this isn't exactly right and exactly what we have taught you, but this is where we're at, and we're gonna teach you about redemption and how to move forward," the lawmaker added.
Earlier this year, Boebert appeared to call for President Joe Biden's death using a Bible verse.
"You know, [the Bible] says, 'Let his days be few and another take his office,'" she told a crowd in February. The quote comes from Psalms 109:8 and also calls for "his children [to] be fatherless and his wife a widow."
Georgia state Rep. Karla Drenner (D) begged transgender children not to kill themselves as it became apparent that Republicans would pass a law banning gender-affirming care.
Drenner made the remarks on the Georgia House floor on Thursday during a debate over SB140, which would ban hormone therapy and transition-related surgery for children.
"I am so sad today," Drenner began. "I've been here 23 years. I was the first openly gay state representative in the south. I have bare witness to lots of bills over the years that have impacted the LGBTQ community."
"What you are talking about today is somebody's child," she continued. "You are telling these parents that they are bad parents because they want to take care of their children."
The lawmaker then addressed children who will be impacted if the bill becomes state law.
"To all the children in our state that are going to be negatively impacted, please don't lose hope," she said. "Please don't give up. Please don't kill yourself. This world is worth it. We need you."
The bill went on to pass the Georgia House in a 96-75 vote.
"[M]ajor medical organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics consider [the treatments] medically necessary and potentially lifesaving for transgender youth," Axios reported on Wednesday.
Pastor Hank Kunneman of One Voice Ministries asserted over the weekend that Joe Biden's administration "doesn't exist" and that the president had been replaced with a body double with "different looking earlobes."
In a Sunday sermon flagged by Right Wing Watch, Kunneman told his congregation that "woke" endeavors would fail.
"Interesting that God said that from the very start, November 4th, this is a fake administration; it doesn't exist. Why would he say that?" the pastor asked. "And then you got a guy (Biden); when I look at pictures, I don't know how many guys are trying to be him."
"I'm a cartoonist; I can recognize when somebody doesn't look the same," he continued. First of all, you got different looking eyes, different looking head, different looking earlobes."
But Kunneman insisted that he was not a "conspiracist."
"I don't read conspiracies; I don't even listen to the news," he remarked. "I'm just telling you, when I've seen pictures, I'm like, what are you trying to do? You're trying to pull the wool over our eyes. And I ain't buying it. I ain't buying it, because I ain't deceived."
Kunneman said he went so far as to verify Biden's signature.
"Boy, some people are mad right now," he joked. "Don't mess with my Biden. No, B-Y-E-D-O-N-E, Biden. There you go. I'm not playing their game."
In a new book one of the 19 children who were the center of the popular Christian reality show which eventually was rebranded as "19 and Counting," recounts growing up in the highly restrictive home of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and how she has made a major move to separate herself from what she called an "unhealthy version" of Christianity.
In an interview with the New York Times to discuss her book "Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear," Jinger Vuolo describes what the Times calls the "darker side" of growing up Duggar.
According to the now 29-year-old whose family's world was rocked when brother Josh was accused of molesting his sisters and then later sent to jail for possession of child pornography, she lived in fear of doing anything outside the lines of what the family permitted in their tightly orchestrated world that was shared with their fans.
As the Times Ruth Graham wrote, "Even after the image began to crumble, the family has maintained a largely united front. No other siblings have spoken as critically about the family’s theology and values as Mrs. Vuolo. With an online following that includes 1.4 million followers on Instagram, her declaration of independence is being closely watched as a high-profile example of re-examining one’s own religious upbringing."
Speaking with Graham, Jinger Vuolo explained, "I was just so crippled with fear, and I didn’t know why,” with the Times report adding, "She described herself as a 'serious rule-follower,' who took to heart her family’s admonitions to dress in long skirts, avoid rock music and date only under parental supervision. In Mrs. Vuolo's world, it was never a question that she would bypass college, marry a man approved by her parents and devote her life to parenting and home-schooling."
In the interview, she discussed the influence of Bill Gothard, who was later accused of sexual harassment, on her family's lifestyle, telling the Times, "That was all I ever knew. His words, in my mind, were almost the words of God.”
With that in mind, in her book, she writes that she is in the process of “disentangling,” as she separates “the truth of Christianity from the unhealthy version I heard growing up."
The report goes on to note that she claimed that "she hoped the book, and her ordinary life itself, would show her friends and family who still follow the teachings of her childhood that there’s another way."
“Even though you’re told your life is going to fall apart if you leave, it’s not. You don’t have to even lose your faith in God,” she explained.
The leader of one the nation’s largest religious-freedom groups warns “America cannot stay America” without a renewed commitment to fighting back against extremists emboldened by former President Donald Trump.
In a wide-ranging interview with Raw Story, Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said Trump’s departure from power — temporary or permanent — in no way signals any respite from a crisis of religious extremism he helped propel.
“We are witnessing a religious extremist movement that no longer is afraid to say the quiet part out loud, and that unabashedly is driving towards a white Christian America where the laws codify white Christian privilege,” Laser said. “And we have a Supreme Court that is by and large advancing their agenda.”
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has made that a top priority, working with women’s groups, but employing a religious-liberty angle that’s decidedly unconventional.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State and National Women’s Law Center recently filed a lawsuit in Missouri on behalf of clergy members challenging a 2019 Missouri state law exclusively upon church-state protection provisions.
It’s a strategy that apparently is emerging nationally, as Insider reports:
“There have also been more than a dozen cases challenging abortion restrictions on religious freedom grounds since the Supreme Court's decision, said Elizabeth Reiner Platt, director of Columbia Law School's Law, Rights, and Religion Project. A Florida Jewish congregation, a group of Florida multi-faith leaders, Methodist ministers in Texas, and Jewish and Muslim claimants in Indiana, among others, have all brought similar claims.”
The group chose Missouri as a test case in no small part because state legislators there had made no effort to hide their rationale for enacting some of the nation’s toughest anti-abortion laws. Abortions are only permitted now in cases of a medical emergency in Missouri. There are no exceptions for rape or incest under the law.
Health care providers who violate that law can be guilty of a class B felony, which can result in five to 15 years in prison, and have their medical license suspended or revoked, the Missouri Independent reported. And when such provisions were passed in 2019, Republican legislators didn’t bother hiding the reasons why.
“Missouri was the perfect alignment of the stars, because the lawmakers all said explicitly that they were religiously motivated in passing these bans,” Laser said. “They put explicit religious language into their law, which says the Lord almighty is the author of life and made no effort to hide that their religious beliefs were behind this. They didn’t hide anything.”
Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser (right) with the Rev. Traci Blackmon, associate general minister of justice and local church ministries for the United Church of Christ (left) and Marahat Rori Picker Neiss (middle).Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Laser said similar motivation is driving an attack by the far-right on public education, LGBTQ rights and a gamut of other freedoms.
“Religious extremists are having a field day with this court, and unfortunately they’re just getting started,” she said.
Might religion-driven legal crusades subside if Trump fails in his 2024 re-election bid?
“It won’t,” Laser said. “Trump absolutely emboldened religious extremists to do what they’re doing. But whether or not Donald Trump wins in 2024 won't effect that, because he's already put this court into power. And the justices he appointed are intent on continuing what they’ve started.”
Laser also cited “a religious extremist crusade to take down public schools and divert all of the funding to private religious schools” as a particular threat.
She said much — but not all — of that activity is taking place at the state level, regarding matters such as the separation of church and state and the fight over “critical race theory,” a largely college-level academic concept that some conservative politicians have used as shorthand for any public school curriculum that addresses racism.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State was nonpartisan and approached the topic as such. She cautioned that unsuspecting politicians of both parties can be influenced by efforts to blur the distinction of church and state by programs, such as “Project Blitz”.
That’s the effort organized by Christian nationalists in the early years of the Trump administration to arm legislators with model bills advancing the far-right agenda, the New York Times reported. They range from bills attacking the rights of same-sex marriage couple to permitting adoption and foster care to discriminate based upon their religion to efforts to blur church-state lines in ways that seem benign.
“There are plenty of Democratic state representatives who have introduced bills from the Project Blitz playbook thinking they're perhaps more harmless than they are,” Laser said. “Things like bills that would post “In God We Trust” in public schools or invite Bible classes into public schools.
“They've got sort of a stronghold on sort of many states where they have elected representatives come together and advance this escalating agenda that's goal is to license discrimination in the name of quote, ‘religious freedom,’ close quote.”
Laser says an example of how a seemingly innocent concept respecting religious liberty can become distorted is the “ministerial exception.”
In theory, it’s intended to protect religious institutions from intrusion by the government in hiring and dealing with key religious employees, and specifically ministers.
So, if a church has an anti-LGBTQ philosophy, it can follow it in hiring its ministers. But that sort of discrimination doesn’t stop there, Laser says.
“The problem is that the religious extremist movement is trying to expand that exception to have it apply well beyond ministers,” she says. “They want to be able to call any employee of a religious institution from a janitor to a math teacher to a nurse in a religious hospital, a ‘minister’ — which they're not — to license discrimination in the name of religion.”
Last month, Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling finding the Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis could rely upon the ministerial exception to fire a high school guidance counselor for being in a same-sex marriage. Laser says it’s the sort of battle her organization is fighting across the nation.
“Our priority is to reawaken the nation to how connected church-state separation is to so many freedoms we have, and to restore the nation's commitment to this principle,” Laser says. “Because without it, America wouldn't be America.”
Tennessee state Rep. Johnny Ray Clemmons (D) spoke out on the statehouse floor on Thursday during a debate about a bill that would ban some drag queen shows.
HB0009, sponsored by state Rep. Chris Todd (R), would
create an offense for a person who "engages in adult cabaret entertainment on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret entertainment could be viewed by a person who is not an adult."
"This amendment defines 'adult cabaret entertainment' as adult-oriented performances that are harmful to minors, as such term is defined under present law; feature go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators, or similar entertainers; and include a single performance or multiple performances by an entertainer," the bill
description adds.
In a floor debate, Clemmons of Nashville pointed out some of the problems with the bill.
"The language of this bill would allow me to arrest Beyonce when she performs here," Clemmons claimed.
"Your language here, as a lawyer, that any entertainment that features a topless dancer — you could have male topless dancers," he said. "I mean, you could have a child — you can watch performances from the street without entering that venue. So, you could have a 16-year-old walking up the street looking in a concert at Beyoncé, Harry Styles, Liz Upton, most any entertainer, and they you're going to allow a district attorney to go down there and arrest that entertainer?"
"You are taking direct aim at Music City, USA just because you subjectively may not agree with it," he continued. "You can not exclude individual classes of people because you do not agree with them or hate them. That is unconstitutional."
Clemmons predicted the legislation would not stand up in court.
But the bill quickly passed in the House, and it now goes to the governor's desk to be signed into law.
Watch the video below from the Tennessee House.
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Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) defended her decision not to stand for the Black National Anthem at the Super Bowl earlier this month.
During an interview on Monday's Triggered podcast, Donald Trump Jr. asked Lake about a viral photo showing her sitting as the Black National Anthem played at Super Bowl LVII.
"I think it's working in the sense they're still attacking you," Trump told Lake. "At the Super Bowl, you didn't stand up for the Black National Anthem, which I don't know that many people had ever heard about before the last few years, including most of the African-Americans I know."
"There's one national anthem!" he exclaimed. "Like, if there was a white national anthem, it would be a problem, and people would lose their minds. And they'd be right."
Lake agreed: "Just like if the election were stolen in a minority community or a Democrat community, they'd be right to throw a fit. And I would be behind them."
"With that case, I knew they were doing that because I'd heard [that] the NFL was going to play that, and I just, like you said, it's separating us," she continued. "America is such a great place. It doesn't matter what your skin color is, what your religious beliefs are. We come together as Americans, and our national anthem is the most perfect song in the world."
Lake said that the U.S. national anthem moved her to tears, "but if we're going to start separating it out to have a Black National Anthem, a white national anthem, a Christian, a Jew... where do we stop?"
"I don't see skin color when I look at people," she added. "That is so trivial and shallow."
On the internet’s far-right fringes preach a group of “Trump prophets” who, since Donald Trump lost the White House in 2020, have endlessly predicted the former president would return to the White House triumphantly that year.
Their grim visions typically include scenarios where President Joe Biden and other Democrats reveal themselves on national television as agents of evils — Lucifer or Beelzubub — perhaps during the Super Bowl.
But now that Trump has officially announced another bid for the presidency and Biden prepares to announce his own plans for re-election, many prominent Trump prophets are changing their tune.
For example, some of these Trump prophets who predicted brutal ends for liberals now say Democrats won’t be killed by heavenly forces of justice just for being “woke”.
Some are no longer certain that Biden, as previously proffered, is the Antichrist — because someone else is.
Perhaps most surprising: some Trump prophets dare predict Americans can be happy … without Trump returning to the White House in 2023 or even in 2025.
How profound is this shift? Consider that a 2019 survey of white Protestants found that about one in three evangelicals and more than half of Pentecostals believe God chose Trump to rule and save America.
HOW DOES ONE BECOME A TRUMP PROPHET?
No seminary education — or higher education at all — is required to declare oneself a Trump prophet. One Trump prophet, Kat Kerr, often alludes to ending her formal education with a high school diploma.
Generally, one must claim that God gave him or her a Trump-related prediction to share on YouTube or other pro-Trump programming, such as that of ex-Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn’s Renewal road show.
Knowledge of the Biblical Rapture is essential. In some Trump prophets’ versions, God scoops Trumpers off Earth, leaving clothes, eyeglasses, hearing aids behind, to deposit them in Heaven while non-Trumpers burn. (The Biblical apolitical description of the Rapture in Thessalonians’ chapter 4 describes rescuing the godly.)
Some Trump prophets have churches. Others have nonprofit online ministries so nebulous, it’s hard to discern their purpose — their websites offer no evidence that they engage in any traditional, charitable activity, such as feeding the hungry or assisting the needy.
Yet Trump prophets remain influential with hundreds of thousands of fans heeding their YouTube shows, podcasts and books.
Meet four of the most notable Trump prophets and how their prophecies have changed:
KAT KERR
The seer from Jacksonville, Fla., with cotton candy pink hair warned followers in 2021 that she didn’t trust COVID-19 vaccines with that “villain fraudulent person” — a reference to Biden — in the White House.
Her followers, she said, could only safely get vaccinated once Trump was back in the Oval Office. She believed God would soon replace Biden with Trump.
She predicted this again in 2022.
But this year, Kerr has dramatically changed her message.
Her new year’s prophecies went out to 45,300 YouTube channel subscribers. She tells followers to be satisfied with Trump's “miracle” 2016 election. And the 2020 election?
“Let all that go,” she advises. “You are not living in perilous times … roll up your rapture rug and put on your crown.”
Kerr returns to her cheerful vision, imploring people of faith to stop fighting each other and remember Earthly life is a temporary job — but Heaven is forever, and it’s dazzling.
As this Trump prophet sees it, cars in Heaven don’t roll on golden streets because “flowercopters” transport residents.
There’s a big jiggly city made of multi-colored Jell-O that locals can nibble and a park with 80-foot-tall waves that never injure surfers.
Kerr says man-sized talking rabbits teach kids to paint with liquid light. And there’s even a body parts warehouse where heavenly inhabitants can try on stronger jawlines or long, ballerina legs..
Trees sing. Flowers dance. A rollercoaster takes you high in the sky then swoops under the ocean.Cows drive tractors on the most divine of farms.
And yes, Trump will be there — a celestial VIP who hosts great parties
JOHNNY ENLOW
Atlanta pastor-turned-Trump prophet Johnny Enlow told followers not to sweat Biden’s Jan. 20, 2021 inauguration. God, he said, would still plop Trump into the Oval Office any month. Enlow stuck to his prophecy for the next couple of years.
Now he envisions 2023 as “glory days, not gloomy days” regardless of who is in and who is out of the White House for the moment.
Meanwhile, the faithful will still deal with an “unending stream of wokeness,” he told “Elijah Streams” talk show host Steve Schultz. But happily, “the Holy Spirit is forcing trans and Satan worshippers to reveal themselves like (they did) on the Grammys” to end confusion about who is what.
God smacked Enlow with a vision while Enlow was in prayer walking on a beach this winter, he said.
God delivered stunning good news: the Antichrist had already ruled on Earth and believers had survived in great shape. While Enlow didn’t offer the Antichrist’s human name, other Trump prophets have claimed former President Barack Obama is the Antichrist.
Enlow emphasized: “It’s not a time of darkness …That’s misreading the times we’re in.”
Enlow prophesied that there were enough conservative believers to peacefully take over “seven mountains” of influence in America — media, government, education, economy, family, religion, and celebration (arts and entertainment).
Enlow has more than 97,000 Facebook followers who enthusiastically praise his many published books and audio recordings.
JEREMIAH JOHNSON
Johnson, a North Carolina pastor, gained national notice as a Trump prophet who apologized for wrongly prophesying Trump would win in 2020.
He didn’t blame elections officials, voting machines or even Satan for his mistake.
“I refuse to blame the saints and say, It didn’t come to pass because they did not pray enough,” Johnson said in a statement then. “Nor will I proclaim, ‘Donald Trump actually won, so I was right, but now it has been stolen from him.”
His 2023 prophecies got more than 74,500 YouTube views. Johnson warned followers to beware of religious men who hated women. and prophets who lied because all they cared about was money but in 2023.
JULIE GREEN
There are holdouts who still hew to their Trump predictions of years past.
One is Trump prophet Julie Green, who has consistently reassured Trumpers that Trump would retake power. She says she is associate pastor of her family’s church in Quad Cities, Iowa, and leads an outfit called Julie Green Ministries.
And she is a star speaker on Mike Flynn’s Renewal national revival tour that sold out in Las Vegas and other metropolises.
Last year, she told Rolling Stone that God had a list of politicians He would kill in 2022: then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Liz Cheney, Sen. Mitt Romney, Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Everyone on this list is alive. And yet, Green still parrots QAnon-style lies. She told Rolling Stone that Pelosi was a witch who gulps babies’ blood. She repeatedly accuses Obama of being the Antichrist without ever explaining why.
Her performances include an element most Christians would consider a sacrilege: she speaks as if God is talking through her mouth. In one video, she sits in her car wearing sunglasses and says, attempting a deep voice, to Trump:
“I love you so much, my son.”
Her 2023 prophecy?
“People in leadership will step down … You will see them resign. And many will die … you will see many hauled out of government buildings …You will see them be marched out … handcuffed.”
God did not specify the political party to which the doomed belonged.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser (right) with the Rev. Traci Blackmon, associate general minister of justice and local church ministries for the United Church of Christ (left) and Marahat Rori Picker Neiss (middle).Americans United for Separation of Church and State