Mike Hixenbaugh from NBC News posted this mashup of MAGA Christian nationalist/white supremacist Charlie Kirk at first defending the separation of Church and state.
CHARLIE KIRK, 2018: Truths very near and dear to our heart, theologically and biblically and spiritually and religiously, but I think where the line was crossed is in the 60s and 70s and 80s where we tried to impose those beliefs through government policy. Where people then inherently have a rejection to it, similarly, how people are rejecting the left imposing their crazy worldview upon us, right?
I think that was a big mistake because it created this kind of counter-revolution, which is, I don't want to have to live the way some Christian in Alabama wants me to live, does that make sense?
So, it's the imposition of those values through legislation and government, which I don't necessarily support, right?
We do have a separation of church and state, and we should support them.
Cut to a brain, drinking the MAGA Koolaid.
CHARLIE KIRK, 2022: There is no separation of church and state. It's a fabrication. It's a fiction.
It's not in the Constitution It's made up by secular humanists.
It's derived from a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention Of course, we should have church and state mixed together.
Our founding fathers believed in that we can go through the details of that They established literally a church in Congress anyways
Liars gotta lie.
For a democracy to rule and thrive, there must be a separation between church and state, which has been the case since this country was created.
Now that evangelicals are worshiping at the altar of MAGA, they are trying to foist a theocracy on the entire country.
You'll want to read the entire article that is promoted in Hixenbaugh's twitter thread.
Here's a bit of it:
Today, Kirk and Turning Point are dominant forces in the Republican Party and MAGA movement, working directly with the Trump campaign on voter outreach while reaching millions of listeners through Kirk’s daily radio show and podcast. Along the way, Kirk has become one of the nation’s most prominent voices calling on Christians to view conservative political activism as central to Jesus’ calling for their lives.
Kirk routinely rails against what he calls the “LGBTQ agenda,” which he claims is harming children. He has invoked the Seven Mountains Mandate, a philosophy increasingly popular among Trump supporters that calls on conservative Christians to claim positions of power in seven key mountains of society, including government, media, business and education. And he promotes Trump as crucial to restoring Christian morality in America.
“I worship a God that defeats evil,” Kirk said last week while introducing the former president at a rally hosted by Turning Point and the Trump campaign at an Arizona megachurch. “And we worship a God that wins in the end.”
