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The label “Christian nationalism” is the new Progressive dog-whistle for “scary American patriots.” It signals to Progressives that Americans who love God and country – which used to be the norm before our descent into a post-Christian, post-patriotism culture – are a subversive danger to democracy. Christianity, after all, imposes a moral code that chafes Progressive libertines, and nationalism, with its emphasis on state sovereignty and secure borders, frustrates their globalist ambitions.
Whenever Christians wave the Stars and Stripes, wear a MAGA hat, or pray that God blesses our country, the Left hyperventilates over the specter of a fundamentalist theocracy on the rise. They envision America becoming a Handmaid’s Tale dystopia in which white male Christian mullahs hang homosexuals and imprison women for seeking abortions. The Left’s vision of the separation of church and state, therefore, is one in which Christian patriots and their values are best excluded from the halls of government power entirely.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that filmmaker and anti-Trump hysteric Rob Reiner is now bravely “taking on” this threat to democracy and globalism in his forthcoming documentary titled God & Country. Reiner, who once directed outstanding movies such as This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, and Misery was reduced during Donald Trump’s presidency to unhinged political rants on X (then Twitter). He has attacked Trump as “a mentally ill sociopath,” a “sick criminal,” a “lying malignant narcissistic cancer,” and of course, a white supremacist.
Reiner continues to bash Republicans on social media and hype the existential threat of Trump’s return to presidential politics, but he managed to find the time to produce God & Country, in which, as The Hollywood Reporter describes it, “religious leaders and scholars, journalists and historians sound off about the threat of a movement that infuses Christian dogma with far-right politics.”
According to Variety, the film features interviews with political commentator David French, VeggieTales co-creator Phil Vischer; Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore; Islam apologist and failed CNN host Reza Aslan; Anthea Butler, race-mongering Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at UPenn; and various Christian evangelicals who give the film a patina of balance and political neutrality.
The trailer mixes interviews with footage of Trump supporters, church leaders talking about God saving America, and of course, the FBI-instigated Capitol chaos of January 6. “This is not a movement about Christian values, this is about Christian power,” intones one interviewee, while another states, “Christianity at its best is committed to love and truth and justice. If we do this right, what a country we will be” – suggesting that the good Christians are the ones who stay out of politics and devote themselves to social justice.
To clarify: Reiner is not the director on the project but the executive producer; his celebrity power will give the film a huge boost in the marketplace. The documentary is directed by Emmy-winner Dan Partland, who also directed 2020’s #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump. That film relied upon the contributions of such notable Trump-haters as his Press Secretary KellyAnne Conway’s husband George, who was a co-founder of the corrupt grifters of the Lincoln Project, and Malcolm Nance, a left-wing propagandist posing as a national security expert, to make the armchair diagnosis that then-President Trump was mentally unfit for the Oval Office (curiously, Partland has not released a documentary questioning Joe Biden’s mental fitness for the presidency).
“Christianity is in crisis,” Partland told Variety about the new film. He is correct about that, but precisely for the opposite reason that he means. Christianity is in crisis not because it is being corrupted by a lust for political power, but because Christians have become so marginalized politically and culturally. We are in a post-Christian era now, as I wrote above, but leftist content creators like Reiner won’t be satisfied until they deliver the coup de grace against their political enemies by demonizing them as a greater threat to American democracy than Islamic fundamentalists are (we’re actually a Republic, of course, but the Left loves to paint themselves as the guardians of “democracy”).
Democrat strategist James Carville, for example, stated recently on Bill Maher’s Real Time that Christian nationalism is – are you ready for this? – “a bigger threat than al-Qaeda to this country.” Of course, al Qaeda’s leadership of the global jihadist movement has been diminished over the years, but the cadaverous crank Carville’s suggestion is that Christians who believe they should be more engaged in politics are more dangerous than Islamic terrorists – a claim that would be laughable if it weren’t so morally reprehensible. He went on to add ominously that Christian nationalists “got the speaker of the House, they got probably at least two Supreme Court justices, maybe more. Don’t kid yourself… this is a fundamental threat to the United States.”
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
“To be clear,” director Partland continued,
Christianity is not the problem, and having one’s faith inform one’s political beliefs is not the problem. The problem is the intertwining of a Christian identity with a political identity such that it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. The danger to democracy led me to explore this topic, but what I learned in the process is that the threat may be even greater to the Church itself.
Reiner recently tweeted a similar message: “Christian Nationalism is not only a danger to our Country, it’s a danger to Christianity itself.”
The notion that Partland and Reiner are deeply concerned about protecting Christianity from the secularizing corrosion of earthly power is ludicrous. Reiner is an avowed atheist. He and Partland are surely taking this sympathetic angle to present their film as being Christian-friendly.
Participant David French, who states astonishingly in the trailer that Christians are “leading the charge in malice and division” in this country, tweeted in his own defense,
I’m in a documentary produced by Rob Reiner, and lots of folks are mad at me for “partnering” with a person who isn’t a Christian. But that anger is part of the problem. This is a pluralistic country. We “partner” together as citizens, and we have a shared interest in confronting Christian nationalism. I’m proud to partner with my Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and atheist friends who want to preserve our classical liberal republic.
What French doesn’t seem to grasp is that Reiner and his cohorts aren’t collaborating with French and his fellow evangelicals in an even-handed, good-faith, pluralistic effort to “preserve our classical liberal republic.” Reiner’s Party is the party of unbridled, totalitarian lust for power, and they are using useful evangelical idiots to demonize MAGA Americans and to help crush the political mobilization of Christian conservatives entirely.
Check out the trailer below:
In all fairness, my commentary is based so far only on the trailer and the politics of the filmmakers. God & Country will be released in theaters in February by distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories, at which time I will review it and amend my judgment of the film if Rob Reiner et al pleasantly surprise me – but I’m not holding my breath.
And to be clear, I do not support the idea of rule by theocracy, Christian or otherwise. But not only is there no danger of that happening in America, the real danger to democracy, and to our Republic, is already gathering momentum: a cabal of globalist elites aiming to amass power by way of the Great Reset and to control the population through techno-totalitarian surveillance and food scarcity.
Wake me when Rob Reiner makes a documentary about that.
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The Meathead is a brain dead, talentless director. His name produces groans, just as even the fools who still subscribe to The New York Times groan when they see Thomas Friedman’s name, knowing it will be followed by a steaming load of bullshit that even the tone deaf, less than discerning subscribers to that rag can instantly recognize.
I recall a film he directed in the mid 1990s that I sat through, “An American President”. I still want those 90 minutes of my life back. It was about a Clintonesque Democratic president (minus the bimbo eruptions and conveniently a widower) who’s dating “an environmental activists” played by Annette Benning, whom the villain, a Republican Senator (from Texas, yet) played by ham Richard Dreyfus finds a video of at a demonstration where an American flag is burned (she has a look of religious ecstasy on her face as Old Glory is set afire). Dreyfus does everything except twirl his mustache as he ties Annette Benning to the railroad tracks to signal his villainy. Not since Stanley Kramer stopped making films has a film delivered its message with this lack of subtlety- it’s like using a sledgehammer to swat a gnat. In the denouement, the American President (played by Michael Douglas) “goes after the guns” and pushes through a blantantly unconstitutional gun ban.
Ann Coulter had a hilarious take on that agitprop movie.
It portrayed Clinton as everything he’d like to be; handsome, smart, thin, masculine, and . . . single.
(Such a shame that Ann flushed herself down to irrelevance.)
Many have said that. I stopped reading her but not for that reason.
The moniker meathead fits the punk Rob Reiner who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth who has been isolated from the toils of real life his entire pampered life. Meathead probably sides with hamazz nazziz and is not a patriot and should live in a 3rd world nation and make the trek to enter USA illegally as the coup d’etat that installed Joe Briben is allowing the USA to be destroyed from within!
Rob Reiner is a Christian hater in the vein of anti-semitism.
He has been isolated from Christians which is why he’s ignorant about us.
Nothing good to say about one as stupid as Rob Reiner. Censor me if you wish but his level of stupid is intolerable
He’s an ignorant Christophobe. He knows nothing about Christians.
According to the US Constitution, Congress has the power to repel and stop an invasion of America.
US Constitution …
Article I, Section VIII, Paragraph 15
“The Congress shall have Power . . . To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions;”
Texas and Arizona and California, and many other US States are now being invaded from Mexico.
The political leaders and politicians and the courts refuse to enforce the US law and the Constitution.
=====
Also, according to the US Constitution, any US state can itself take action on its own to stop an invasion
if the Federal Government will not, does not, or can not stop the invasion.
US Constitution …
Article I, Section X, Paragraph 3
“No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace,
enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War,
unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”
Texas and Arizona and California, and many other US States are now being invaded from Mexico.
The political leaders and politicians and the courts refuse to enforce the US law and the Constitution.
that’s why the founding fathers gave us the 2A.
If anyone is interested Janet Mefferd’s radio archives are available online, she did several broadcast on Russell Moore. As for Malcolm Nance, the last time I saw that clown, he had donned full combat apparel. Nancy Nance, was going to the Kremlin, to kick Putin’s ass.
This kind of demonization of good people almost always originates from islamists.
Muslims can never win the hearts and minds of the free world, and they never ever cared about winning hearts and minds, they want to destroy it all and enforce sharia, which is only based on use of brutal force. What’s standing on their way firmly is Nationalism and Christianity.
. . . “a cabal of globalist elites aiming to amass power by way of the
Great Reset and to control the population through techno-totalitarian
surveillance and food scarcity”. The difference between such control
over others and Christianity is that Christianity emphasizes individual
freedom and decision making by answering via one’s conscience to God.
Commies like these Globalists and Rob Reiner are forever saying “for the
good of all” – “”to save the planet” – “for the greater good” which subsumes
individual pursuits in favor of pursuits which are only for everyone else –
for the collective – for the State. And it is the State that you come to live for
rather than for yourself and your relationship with God. No wonder Rob
Reiner is so eager to disparage and destroy the message of Christianity.
A Godless world of submission to people instead of to God awaits.
BTW the esteemed journalist at Jewish News Syndicate, Caroline Glick,
shockingly mentioned in one of her recent videos on the Hamas-Israeli
war the designation “technocrat”. She said American officials are using
that term in their interactions with Israel at this time as are European
leaders in their dealings with each other. Glick said to be on the lookout
for “technocrat” to become the new buzzword on everyone’s lips in the
near future.
Sure sounds like the ones who will be overseeing that techno-totalitarian
control.
Rob Reiner also a Health and Safety Nazi who helped hike up the cost for a pack of cigarettes in Communist Kalifornia.
I t would be worth anyone’s while to listen to James Lindsay on the topic of ‘Christian Nationalism.’ It seems that there really is a small group of people who see themselves as Christians who promote something they call Christian Nationalism. Lindsay argues that the left will seek to conflate this with normal views. https://newdiscourses.com/2023/08/wtf-is-christian-nationalism/ and https://newdiscourses.com/2023/04/two-wolves-of-christian-nationalism/ Lindsay is a rather brilliant man but you have to be able to excuse his language occasionally.
The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is fringe group. In their fuzzy brains they are going to take over government, media, the military, and so on. The NAR plan is to take over all important institutions, and make the world squeaky clean place, so Jesus will come back. The NAR are mostly mad men, con-artists, and the gullible.
Yes, you’re right
… and I will not be surprised when we find out NAR (and Patriot Front, and Nick Fuentes’ “group” and others I haven’t heard of) …
… are full of FBI informants informing on each other …
😉
Still a Atheistic Pinko Meathead after all those years nothings changed
This guy’s brain has been fried for decades.
“The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government.” – Noah Webster
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” – Patrick Henry
“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” – Daniel Webster
“Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.” – Daniel Webster
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. “ James Madison on November 23, 1787:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
Sorry Meathead… you seem to be in the wrong country.
and one more from George Washington: “it is not possible to rightly govern without God and the Bible.”
Gab is run along the lines of Christian Nationalism and I was signed up to it but rarely if ever went on it.
After October 7th I received an email from the owner saying something about Jews being the enemy of Christianity.
I unsubscribed at that point.
Thanks, interesting, I’ll look into that.
Gab is rife with Jew hating morons.
We need a real Christian crusade against this satanic cult called the Democrat party and Hollywood
Once a Meathead, always a Meathead!
“Once a Meathead, always a Meathead!” You took the words out of my mouth.
so a jew hates christians
whats new
they are all psychotic
fun to watch
and on their death beds…who will they cry to?
dylan mulbudlight?
In India this is called Hindu Nationalism by the same set of leftists.
I have no idea what Christian Nationalism is supposed to be….but…..
Jesus sure looks good in a MAGA hat.
Trump ’24, MAGA
”his celebrity power will give the film a huge boost in the marketplace.”
What?
1980 called, it wants Rob celebrity power back. The fat guy can screw himself.
Reiner is the Typical Leftist Jew
Although I hesitate to call Reiner a Jew. He’s so far removed from anything Jewish
Reiner is an atheist. I won’t even call him a leftist Jew. Because he’s so far removed from anything resembling Judaism or anything Jewish.
Too many Reiners in this world.
The qualifications for Jewishness are somewhat in excess of occasionally consuming rye bread.
The only way this guy can converse with honesty are when his genitals are alligator clipped to a telephone generator.
The lefty-lib paranoia about Christians and “Christian nationalism” was created out of whole cloth by their fellow left-libs—who wanted people focused on a non-threat like the vast, VAST majority of Christians who do not actually threaten anybody.
Lefty-libs work hard to cultivate this paranoia because it’s useful overall for destroying our constitutional republic—designed for free people under limited government—and replacing it with Something Else.
While the lefty-libs are forever presenting this Something Else as the Utopia-of-Free-Stuff ,Where-Libidos-Roam-Free, it will really be just some totalitarianism police state. That totalitarian police state, moreover, will have no real use for much of anybody. Less being more, so to speak.
I first overheard old lefty-lib guys obsessing over Christian nationalism a number of years ago at the gym I went to in Vermont. At that time there was also a book on the subject of that “threat” prominently displayed in the very popular local bookstore—which could have been a triggering factor. (This really was long ago. Could have been Clinton or Bush years.)
I thought folks like that were willfully lying to themselves back then, and I still feel that way. There are problems to be concerned about in this world. To choose to be concerned about non-problems—like MAGA Republicans—and then be onboard with all of your FBI and law enforcement resources, etc. being directed as persecuting and silencing people with whom you COULD be having a civil debate, is just so wrong. It’s even self-defeating.
But, in the short run, I guess it’s all very gratifying to be on top—while badmouthing, canceling, and making a horrifying example of those who don’t share your political persuasions.
Reiner is going to cause antisemitism, not because he’s Jewish, but because he’s a leftist.
A true artist stands outside of politics. They must be able to view the situation as it truly is, taking into consideration all aspects. Call me, Joycean in that regard.
Meathead is a example of living in Hollywood way too long with Dope & Booze on the mind causes Brains to shrink and soon a Turkey will be more Intelligent Meatheads Brain is way past any hope of recovery from his own stupidity
at that point he becomes a reprobate – and one cannot communicate with a reprobate.
Isn’t it interesting how as Christians, we have to put up with the Heathen in this country, but they don’t want to put up with us? Interesting also is how Rob would’ve NEVER said any of these things while he was working?
If I ever meet that fat fu ck in person I will beat the fu ck out of him.
Christian…nationalism? Christianity is not a nation. Meathead strikes again.
Rob Reiner … full stop …
When we see his name in a headline, we know demonic lunacy is high on pot and porn …
Ironically … Amerikkka’s actual established religion is Atheism … and to the extent a few Christians have become alarmed by the Nazification/Islamification of the Amerikkkan Empire formerly known as America …
Reiner and his fellow travelers are afraid they will wake up the Normies …
… and prevent Amerikkka from becoming a South American/South African version of Somalia …
As if preventing that outcome is a bad thing.
Oh, and btw … let’s not forget Norman Lear and Carroll O’Connor were also losers. Their only claim to be sane adults was …
… standing next to Rob.
G-d save us from all the meatheads …
Reiner and cohorts are only showing their ignorance concerning Christianity (much the same as the current ignorance concerning Islam). This Christian Nationalism is merely Christianity, plain and unadorned. It has been around for over 1900 years but the abysmal state of the education system as well as the media has failed to teach that nothing about Christianity has changed since its foundation (except for the proliferation of cults). Christians are the same as they were 50 or 100 years ago. Unlike Islam it has no wing to enforce its commandments. No one is forced to accept Christianity or die. Reiner may continue to live his lifestyle for as long as he wishes, even if 99.9% of the population becomes Christian. The shallow and shall nots he claims are wrong apply only within Christianity not to outsiders. In the final analysis Reiner apparently fears Christianity and for what reason only a psychoanalyst could say.
Another Liberal leftists propaganda film we should avoid totally and especially one by a Meathead
considering any commentary by those who have never read the bible are ill informed , because christs own words to caesar , ” my kingdom is not of this world ” buries the idea of a theocracy of any description before the tribulation . then with the destruction of the one world govt. and antichrist , christ will reign for 1000 years . the idea of ” christian nationalism ” is a fiction as is 2 state solution , and fakestininians as well as russian collusion . those that are afflicted to TDS are prone to grand delusions which is what all leftists thrive on . as the truth eludes them they have to make it up which gives them a reason to get up in the morning . christs rule will arrive without the help of anyone , christian or non and will not be deferred by any govt. no matter how hard they try and the belief that they are in charge .
Would we ever have heard of Rob Reiner if his dad hadn’t been Carl Reiner?
Even then, it was Archie Bunker who put his name in lights.
Remember always that rich old hippie communists know everything and disagreeing with them is not perrnitted. They are chasing socialist utopia and can’t be reasoned with.
Who cares what Meathead thinks. Meathead was Reiner’s only memorable part—one that didn’t even require him to act!
America was founded under Judeo-Christian values. That means life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When people try to devalue the God of this Universe who made us all and was the fairest minded God, who came down to be with man and to guide man into civility, you know that there are underlying sinister plans and forces to undermine everything God did that was good for this universe.
Most people with any rationality are more concerned about the borders, the drugs that are killing people, the gangs, the lawlessness, violence, and those coming across our borders that represent anti-semetic regimes who hate all Americans. Many people don’t have the slightest idea what is ahead, especially the woke, which is another condition for in the dark, and especially about the mass disappearance thats coming.
The Rapture represents the disappearance of all the believing Christians in the world today.
The event will leave many surprised, frightened, and confused, but those who are anticipating the Rapture for years know the timeline of events that are coming.
I just found out Charlie Kirk has some connection to the New Apostolic Reformation.
Reiner is going to CAUSE anti-semitism.