ROME — A prominent U.S. Catholic bishop politiko The reporter described Christian nationalism, calling it “one of the most disturbing and frankly dangerous things I’ve ever seen in a political conversation.”
Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and founder of the Catholic pastoral organization Words on Fire, said: politiko‘National Investigative Correspondent Heidi Przybyla argued that Christian nationalists are dangerous because they believe human rights come from God, not government.
Thursday’s MSNBC appearance all inPrzybyla Said He said Christian nationalists “have a lot of power around Mr. Trump.”
The only thing that unites all Christian nationalists, she continued, is the belief that “our rights as Americans and as all human beings do not come from any earthly authority.” . They don’t come from Congress. They don’t come to the Supreme Court. They are from God. ”
Przybyla stressed that belief in the divine origins of human rights is not shared by ordinary Christians, but is a hallmark of Christian nationalism, which is “completely different.”
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiReports) February 23, 2024
In response, Bishop Barron said, Posted In a video message on X (formerly Twitter), Przybyla pointed out that it was a big mistake to attribute belief in the divine origin of rights to Christian nationalist “weirdoes”.
“First of all, it was Thomas Jefferson who made that claim,” he said. “We hold these truths to be self-evident and that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
“It is extremely dangerous to forget the principle that our rights come from God and not from the government,” the bishop argued. “The fundamental problem is that if they come from the government (or Congress, the Supreme Court), they can be taken up by the same people.”
“This is opening the door to totalitarianism,” Baron added.
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— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) February 23, 2024
“This is not some kind of religious nationalism or sectarianism,” the bishop continued. “That our rights come from God is one of the soundest principles of our democratic governance. Yes, that’s what government exists for.” Safe These rights are not set out in the Declaration Produce they. “
He went on to say that continuing down this path is “extremely dangerous.” For rights lose their transcendental basis and become subject to the whims of the ruler.
“Their zeal to oppose Christian nationalism actually goes against the very foundations of our democracy,” he warned.
He said this was further evidence of the left’s “extreme hostility” towards religion.
“As an American, I would like to claim that my rights do not come from something as unstable and unreliable as Congress or the Supreme Court. They come from God,” he concluded.
Thomas D. Williams is Breitbart’s Rome bureau chief and author of “The Coming Persecution of Christians.”.
