While the Biden administration repressed Attacks on churches have increased by 800 percent over the past six years, according to a new report from the Family Research Council (FRC).
In February, the conservative group released the report titled “Hostility Against Churches Is Rising in the United States.” It recorded 915 acts of hostility against churches between January 2018 and November 2023.
“While the motivations for many of these acts of hostility remain unknown, the effect is unmistakable: religious intimidation,” said Arielle Del Turco, director of the FRC Center for Religious Freedom. Press release. “They send the message that churches are not wanted in the community or respected in general. Our culture demonstrates a growing disregard for Christianity and core Christian beliefs, and acts of hostility toward churches could be a physical manifestation of this.
The report reveals that hostile incidents against the church more than doubled in 2023 compared to 2022, with 436 recorded a year after the Supreme Court ruling. Dobbs This decision returned abortion legislation to state legislatures. The number of attacks in 2023 was more than eight times higher than those reported in 2018.
A large majority of incidents in 2023 were vandalism, “such as rocks thrown through the window,” according to the report.
“Several incidents were related to Ohio Issue 1,” the report added, “a ballot measure to amend the state constitution to protect abortion.” The ballot measure pass by 13 points last fall.
Elite smears increasingly target Christians in America, as the center of America’s culture wars. moves away from abortion And transgender. Since Dobbs In power in 2022, the Democratic-controlled FBI has infiltrated churches in search of domestic extremists and pursued pro-life protesters for public prayers. However, firebombing attacks on churches have been met with minimal investigation.
(READ: 5 Times the Biden Admin Persecuted Christians for Living Their Faith)
At the same time, the Beltway press warned Americans on the alleged threat of “Christian nationalism” associated with the triumphant return of former President Donald Trump. Last week, MSNBC panelists promoted a new book calling “white rural voters” existential threats to democracy, in part because “they are also the most strongly white nationalist and white Christian nationalist.”
In February, Politico published a hysterical analysis of Trump, a twice-divorced Manhattan businessman, as a champion of “Christian nationalism,” defined as Americans who “believe the country was founded as a nation Christian and that Christian values should be given priority everywhere. government and public life. Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla, co-author of the magazine’s article on “Christian nationalism,” followed up by publishing a appearance on MSNBC.
“The only thing that unites them as Christian nationalists – and not Christians, for that matter, because Christian nationalists are very different – is that they believe that our rights as Americans, like all human beings, do not come of no earthly authority; they do not come from Congress; they don’t come from the Supreme Court, they come from God,” Przybyla said.
David Harsanyi, Federalist Editor and atheist, wrote about his remarks in a column last week. “If this is “Christian nationalism,” sign me up! » Harsanyi title his article.
As many critics have already pointed out, “Christian nationalism” seems identical to the arguments for American freedom presented in the Declaration of Independence. Again, the idea that man has inalienable and universal rights dates back at least to ancient Greece. The entire American project depends on accepting the idea that the state can neither give nor take the freedoms that God has given us. This is the best form of “extremism”.
