Barry Moore, Congressional Christian Nationalist Caucus
Barry Moore, anointed by God…
…and member of the Congressional Christian Nationalist Caucus
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Barry Moore regularly tells voters in Alabama’s first congressional district that he is in Congress because God chose him to have the job.
Students of American history may remember that the Constitution of the United States provides no role for spiritual beings in the selection of members of Congress. Traditionally, it was understood that voters, human voters, chose members of Congress.
Barry Moore has different ideas about how government works. He believes that voters weren’t really the ones to put him in Congress. He says God gave him the job. In this belief, Barry has been encouraged by his wife, Heather Moore. Heather explains that her husband was reluctant to run for Congress at first, which is strange, because he had already enthusiastically run for a position in the Alabama state legislature.
It seems that Barry’s mind was changed when a couple of divine prophets visited him at a breakfast he was having while attending political events in Washington DC, and meeting with national Republican Party leaders. It’s important to remember here that, although Barry Moore was traveling all the way from Alabama to Washington DC in order to meet with political leaders at the time, he was in no way thinking about running for Congress. No sir, that was the last thing on his mind.
Anyway, Barry Moore was sitting there, eating his eggs and sausage, when out of the blue, two people came up to him and told him that they were Christian prophets and had spoken personally to God. God, they said, had a message for Barry. Heather Moore tells the story of the prophets this way:
“’The Lord says you’ve been reluctant,’ they said to Barry. ‘You’ve been unwilling to take the mantle He has placed upon you, but God says He is going to give you the wisdom and understanding to do what I call you to do.’”
Barry Moore’s obedience to God may be called into question at this point, because, despite having been instructed to run for Congress by the divine, immortal creator and king of the entire universe, Barry still didn’t want to do it. Heather Moore was getting pretty frustrated with her husband’s inability to take a hint from Jehovah, so she became a Christian prophet herself, and started having regular in-person conversations with God about how to get Barry to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. “I couldn’t let it go,” Heather said. “God kept telling me Barry’s going to be in Congress.”
Isn’t it funny how a person’s own selfish desires so often overlap with what God wants for them? Coincidences!
Finally, Heather told Barry that God had given her a phone call, or a text message, or something, just two days before. Anyway, the details of the communication don’t matter. What matters is that it was a PROPHECY from GOD, so Barry had better listen up and obey the Lord!
“Barry called me and said that our Congresswoman was retiring, and I said, ‘Well, you’re running.’ He said, ‘No, we need to…” I said, “No! God spoke to me two days ago and said a calling was coming, and that we don’t walk, we run.” He said, ‘Well, okay then.’”
Run for Congress, Barry! God says so! Okay, Heather. Finally, Barry Moore ran for Congress.
Now, Barry Moore is running for a seat in the United States Senate, but he promises that if God tells him not to do it, he’ll just quit. It’s what God wants, not what the voters want, that matters to Barry Moore. “Outside the will of God, there's nothing I want,” Barry Moore says.
So, as a member of Congress, Barry Moore is acting as if it’s his job to serve the will of God, rather than to defend American democracy. That’s why Barry Moore has endorsed H.R. 5722, legislation that, if passed, will force the mandatory imprisonment and deportation of all Muslims who are not citizens - even if they’re green card holders or have legal visas to be in the United States - for no other reason than their religious beliefs.
“When you got the Muslims and the trans fighting against our group of people, that tells you it's a spiritual battle,” Barry Moore says. But where are Muslims fighting against Americans? Where is that happening, exactly? It’s happening nowhere. Muslims are not fighting Americans anywhere, but Barry Moore doesn’t care about the details, because he’s working for the will of God.
As a member of the Congressional Christian Nationalist Caucus, Representative Barry Moore is also supporting H.J. Res. 118, a bill that would create a new national religious holiday: The Day Of The Bible, to be observed by all Americans every year on September 12.
Sure, 40% of Americans are not Christians, but Barry Moore wants the federal government to ensure that they observe the Day Of the Bible anyway. Barry Moore wants the US federal government to enforce laws that push Americans into Christian religious worship, whether they like it.
Forcing people to cherish the Bible, and kicking people out of the country for not being Christian… according to Barry Moore, that’s just the American Way… or the will of God, at least.
What if Congressman Barry Moore had read The Demonic Bible instead of just listening to prophecies from his wife Heather? Barry might have asked some critical questions about whether it was really God telling Heather that Barry had to run for Congress, or if Heather’s own desires had more to do with it.
You see, unlike traditional versions of the Bible, The Demonic Bible encourages readers to ask skeptical questions, rather than just accepting everything the Bible says on nothing more than blind faith. This new version of the Bible offers refreshingly honest commentary on the Christian Bible from a demon’s perspective, counterbalanced by an angel representing traditional biblical interpretation.
Sadly, it seems that Barry Moore has never read The Demonic Bible. So, if Heather Moore told her husband that God told her he has to jump off a cliff, would he do it?
In a parallel reality, Representative Moore might support teaching The Demonic Bible in public schools as part of his initiative to create a National Day Of The Bible. He wouldn’t limit his religious vision to only conservative, right-wing interpretations of scripture.
In this reality, Barry Moore will never support a National Day of the Demonic Bible. As a member of the Christian Nationalist Caucus, Moore is only willing to give federal government support to his own kind of religion.