The Donald says outwardly that he wants what the Christian Nationalists want, that they are "good people." But what exactly do they want? They want this country to be declared a "Christian Country" (no such concept exists in the Bible, however) and to enforce a "Biblical lifestyle/Biblical worldview" upon all of us.
So, what does that mean?
House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, who evidently hid his christofascism from those of us not in his caucus, says the Bible defines his worldview, but he is antiabortion while the Bible isn't, so how does he reconcile this conflict? He and the rest of his ilk do it in a Lewis Carrollian fashion: it means exactly what they say it means, nothing more, nothing less.
But, for women it is horrific. If I may quote "Biblical Nonsense: A Review of The Bible for Doubting Christians" by Jason Long:
"If a man rapes an engaged virgin who doesn't cry loud enough to draw attention, the community should consider the attack consensual if it took place within the city. Thus, the whore must be stoned to death per God's instructions. It obviously doesn't matter if the woman is too scared to scream because the law makes no such exception. The man will be stoned to death as well, not because he committed a brutal atrocity against the woman, but only because he "violated another man's wife" (Deuteronomy 22:24). Note the shamefully sharp contrast in disciplinary action between raping a woman with a husband and raping a woman without a husband: death versus a (fine of a) pound of silver. Since it's all the same to the woman, it now becomes clear that God feels the husband is the one who is the victim of the attack."
"Another unfortunate circumstance pushing half the population into considerable danger of becoming a slave is to have been born female. From the time a girl is born, she is the property of her father. The ownership is transferred once the father sells her to another man to become his wife or concubine. From the previous chapter, we know that the wife is to be totally subordinate and fully submissive to the husband in every way, regardless of extraneous circumstances.
"She is not to question her husband, and the New Testament authors disallow her to participate during worship. In essence, she has no real freedom. If you don't feel this is an example of slavery, I'm afraid you've missed the point somewhere along the line."
And, I assure you, there is worse.
Donald Trump wants Christian nationalist people to have more power. Me, I would like them to take their Biblical worldview (not the Bible's worldview) and shove it up their asses.
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