Homeland Security Threatens NonChristian Americans with a Bible Verse
Markwayne Mullin, the new Secretary of Homeland Security for Donald Trump, is in charge of sending ICE agents, masked secret police, into American neighborhoods to hunt people down and haul them off to America's new concentration camps. He is not a kind man. He is unkind in the name of Jesus.
One Nation Under God has become a motto of religious violence organized by the US federal government.
The MAGA fascists want us to believe that this fascist violence by the Department of Homeland Security is a specifically Christian project. Secretary Mullin is promoting the fascist police state with Bible verses. The most recent one of these is from the Epistle to the Romans, chapter 8 verse 28: "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." Mullin follows up this New Testament Bible verse with a note of his own: "Trust in God and His plan for our great nation. One Homeland Under God."
The Christian god has a plan for the United States of America? Really? I’ve looked through the entire Christian Bible, and throughout the entire thing, the Christian god didn’t mention the United States of America even once. There’s no indication that the Christian god had any idea that North America even exists.
Never mind these obvious facts. Markwayne Mullin wants the United States to be “one Homeland under God”. UNDER God. What the hell is the Christian god doing climbing on top of this nation?
No one elected God to rule over the USA. Here in America we are supposed to have freedom of religion and freedom from the establishment of religion by the federal government. The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees it, but under Christian Nationalism, the Constitution has been replaced by the Christian Bible.
The implication of Romans 8:28, in the context of the Department of Homeland Security in Christian fascist America, is quite plain. Things are going to go well for Christians who obey, but for everyone else, things are not going to be okay. It's a threat coming from the Department of Homeland Security, which has sent ICE agents out to shoot protesters dead in the streets.
They expect you to be intimidated by this, and to be fair, if you are a non-Christian American, you should be afraid. This fascist Christian government has already demonstrated that it will not be restrained by the law, much less by common decency. Nonetheless, you must not be intimidated.
In response to their demand that you bow your head and comply with the regime of One Nation Under God, you must stiffen your spine, raise your head and say no. This nation is not going to lie down under your god.
The odds are against us. We’re not just facing the power of Christian zealots. We’re also up against the corrupt power of organizations such as the Blockchain Association, the organization that proudly claims to be “the unified voice of the crypto industry.”
I remember when advocates of cryptocurrency claimed that their blockchain technology was going to liberate us from centralized authority. Now, the Blockchain Association is a paying sponsor of a festival of fascist Christian Nationalism, an orgy of centralized power on May 17, when Donald Trump will declare that the USA is One Nation Under God, which of course means that the USA will be One Nation Under Trump. Cryptocurrency is good for nothing for ordinary people, but for the wealthy, it’s an excellent technology for bribing the President of the United States of America and other corrupt members of the US federal government.
When we stand up to the tyranny of One Nation Under God, we’re facing an uphill battle against extremely powerful people. Maybe the struggle is already lost. If that’s true, I’d rather lose the struggle to defend American liberty with my dignity intact. I’m in no mood to stand by in silence as I watch the Christian fascists win.