Some issues in life are so completely wrong, they become Deal-Breakers. When we learn of them and can no longer deny them, they force a hard moral decision and personal course correction. If we delay, we become just as responsible and just as guilty for the harm they cause.
These are but two of the interrelated religious deal-breakers I've experienced:
* Leaders at my "church" used allegedly "Biblical ideology" to support wife-beating ('96).
* Christian Reconstruction's endpoint [the OG, Presby, Project 2025 strategic side of the Christian Right] ultimately demanded a religious/racial caste system and servitude – likely the most significant impetus for its ideology [which took me more than decade to process and another to accept] (''02).
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The Hegseth/Trump military meeting on September 30th was another kind of deal-breaker, religious in the sense that it formalized the undoing of the virtues of tolerance and respect from which American inalienable rights derived. They are the Christian virtues that our Christian Founders imbued in the words of our Constitution – the Christian foundation of our nation.
Without those virtues and inalienable rights, America ceases to be a Christian nation, thus breaking the trust that our Constitution once provided.
Yesterday, the figurehead and Commander-in-Chief of our Christian nation formally denounced these virtues. It was the Art of Deal-Breaking, but we did collectively elect a moral deal-breaking reality TV star.
I'm sure most of his Christian supporters cheered, believing that his change in military policy after months of disregard for the Rule of Law brought our nation closer to being a "Christian nation."
Based on studies of behavior and the history of similar events in other nations, my heart aches because I know that 2/3rds of MAGA Christians may never fully grasp the gravity of what just happened.
