{"id":9,"date":"2026-05-19T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:10:21","slug":"trumps-christian-nationalist-agenda-taxpayer-funded-d-c-prayer-rally-bishop-barber-sarah-posner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Christian Nationalist Agenda &#038; Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber &#038; Sarah Posner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for \u201cRededicate 250,\u201d a taxpayer-funded Christian evangelical service backed by President Trump. The eight-hour lineup featured songs, prayers and remarks by top government officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The event included religious leaders like evangelist Franklin Graham and Cardinal Timothy Dolan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=7\">Hi there,<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing was Christian about what we saw yesterday,\u201d says Bishop William J. Barber II. \u201cThis is idolatry. This is heresy. This is a form of religious nationalism. This is Trump worship. This is trying to make someone a messiah figure.\u201d Barber, the president of Repairers of the Breach and founding director of the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, took part in a counter-event on Sunday called Redirect 250.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=1\">Hello world!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a battle for the soul of America,\u201d says Sarah Posner, author of <em>Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind<\/em>. The Supreme Court has eroded the separation of church and state in recent decades, particularly under President Trump, adds Posner. She also notes that \u201cevangelicals, for decades, have been marinating in Christian Zionist theology and ideology, which holds that, in their view, America has a biblical duty to defend Israel, and in particular defend Israel from aggression, both nuclear and otherwise, from Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for \u201cRededicate 250,\u201d a taxpayer-funded Christian evangelical service backed by President Trump. The eight-hour lineup featured songs, prayers and remarks by top government officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 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