Conquering AmeriKKKa and killing infidels for Christ
Since when are hatred and religious oppression Christian values?
There’s no reason you’d know who Andrew Wommack is- unless, of course, you’re a fire-breathing Evangelical Christian bent on conquering every square inch of the Earth by any means necessary. Because that’s how one would serve a “kill-’em-and-grill-’em” version of Jesus Christ who’d rather smite someone than embrace them.
Even many of those who know who Andrew Wommack is probably think he’s crazier than a March hare. And you’d get no argument from me. He may be many things, but a loving and compassionate servant of Jesus Christ wouldn’t be first on the list of things I might guess.
Andrew Wommack is as entitled to rule America as I am…which is to say not at all, but good luck convincing Wommack’s entitled, self-righteous ass of that.
If you go to his website and and scroll a bit, you’ll notice the Wommack’s Truth and Liberty Coalition subscribes to the Seven Mountains Mandate:
The 7 Mountain Mandate, a powerful, transformative campaign intended to bring about social transformation. The Kingdom of God is enormous – far bigger than your family or local church.
To deliver the truth of God’s Kingdom and unite the Body of Christ with the world at large, we believe we have a mandate to bring Godly change to our world, through the seven spheres of societal influence.
The Seven Mountains they desire control over are:
Religion and faith
Family
Education
Government and law
Media, news, and commentary
Arts and entertainment
Business and economics
(If you’re interested, you can learn more about Seven Mountains Dominionism here.)
In other words, Wommack and his fellow travelers want to establish extremely Conservative Christian control over all aspects of life. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you can recall Gilead from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, you wouldn’t be far wrong.
The Truth and Liberty Coalition’s website refers to their plan as “A movement that promotes the true reformation & flourishing of nations.” What they don’t mention is that the “reformation & flourishing” will be done on their terms and ONLY on their terms. Those who resist and/or refuse to play ball will be pushed aside.
They also don’t mention that “reformation & flourishing” is almost certainly code for spilling buckets of blood- not theirs, of course.
What remains to be seen whether “being pushed aside” will ultimately become a euphemism for being exiled or worse, executed. I’m not going to assume the absolute worst yet, but Christofascists like Andrew Wommack aren’t renowned for their patience or a penchant for compromise.
Historically, when one conquers and rules by the sword, dissent is also dealt with by decisively by the sword.
If Wommack and those like him were to assume power, we can and probably should assume that America would quickly become the property of good, God-fearing, White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual males…and almost certainly wealthy ones. Those who do fit into that box would be left to fight for crumbs as they either become part of the servant class or are “disappeared” altogether.
“FlashPoint” is a Christian nationalist program produced by televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel network that is poised to hit the road in 2024, seeking to mobilize conservative Christians heading into the November elections.
Featuring a rotating roster of MAGA cultists, self-proclaimed “prophets,” and various conspiracy theorists, “FlashPoint” is scheduled to make its first stop at evangelist Andrew Wommack’s Charis Bible College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, tonight. Wommack is a far-right anti-LGBTQ Christian nationalist who believes that Christians such as himself “are supposed to be ruling in this world” and is doing his best to make that happen in Colorado Springs.
On Wednesday night’s edition of Wommack’s “Truth & Liberty” program, he interviewed “FlashPoint” host Gene Bailey about the upcoming event at Charis and during the course of the program, he took a call from a viewer who wanted to know if it is possible to bring about a “grace revolution” in the United States and create a nation that will “use the Bible as the Constitution.”
The Bible is a collection of documents, most written a couple of millenia ago. Even the Constitution is a quarter-millennium old and was written for landed White men BY landed White men. Neither are documents that were designed or intended to cover the full complement of humanity, though the Constitution is certainly the more egalitarian of the two. Neither, for example, were intended to cover the rights of women. Or refugees. Or non-Whites. Or even non-Christians.
Wommack responded that the U.S. does not need a new Constitution because the one we have is “one of the great things that God has done” and is literally on par with the Bible.
This is where I want to scream “HELL, NO!” God did not write the Constitution, nor is it “literally on par with the Bible.”
God had/has nothing to do with the Constitution.
The Bible is not the literal Word of God. It was written by innumerable hands, and then translated and re-translated by perhaps hundreds of individuals. There is no way the Bible could credibly be considered the literal Word of God under those circumstances.
Wommack has taken a kernel of information (of questionable provenance) and conflated it into a movement that conveniently buttresses his desire for temporal power. He and his fellow travelers have created a system that would force their inflexible Christofascism on all Americans and eventually all of humanity. It’s insidious, inhuman, illiberal, and decidedly unChristian…that is, if you understand anything at all about the teachings of Jesus Christ.
And I haven’t even addressed the Constitution’s separation of Church and State, which is confirmed by tradition, the writings of the Founding Fathers, precedent, and case law. Wommack’s argument that the Constitution is “literally on par with the Bible” makes is as senseless as it is self-serving is light of this.
“I don’t believe we need to come up with a new Constitution,” Wommack said. “The one we have is fine. The problem is people aren’t following it. Our Constitution—if you were to put it into biblical terms—if they were still writing the Bible today, I believe that the American Constitution and the founding of this nation would be in Scripture as one of the great things that God has done.”
Wommack went on to say that if Trump gets back into the White House, the U.S. could very well face another civil war, which Wommack said would be worth having if it would turn this nation back to God and the Constitution.
“If Trump gets back in, there are people that are saying that they will physically fight,” Wommack stated. “I’ve actually had people say that if Trump was to be elected, if we got a conservative Congress, that they fear that we would have another civil war. And you know what? I don’t want to civil war. I don’t know anybody that does, but would it be worth it to turn this nation back? I believe it would.”
So, a man who calls himself a Christian is OK with the idea of a civil war that would almost certainly kill MILLIONS of his fellow Americans…as long as it would get him his Conservative theocracy. How is that point of view even remotely Christ-like?
If you view those who aren’t good, God-fearing, White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexuals as “human,” there’s your justification.
For Andrew Wommack, a civil war would be worth it if turns people back to God and the Constitution. Who’s flavor of God? Of course, it would have to be his, because anything else would be the province of blasphemers and unbelievers.
And how would Donald Trump, perhaps the least “Christian” person in public life, be at all helpful to turning America back to God and the Constitution? He’s far more concerned with keeping his demented, hypocritical ass out of prison than with hastening the arrival of the Kingdom of Anyone’s Flavor of God.
Andrew Wommack shouldn’t be allowed to rule a Dairy Queen in Rugby, ND…much less be the High Priest and Chief Executioner of a Christian AmeriKKKa. It’s not about glorifying God or spreading the love of Jesus Christ. It’s about temporal power and political control…and the hypocrisy is almost palpable.
Greetings from Gilead, eh? If we take our eye off the ball, it could easily become more than just a frightening dystopian novel and cable television series. It might become our new reality.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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