Shall I explain what's going on? No, seriously. March 10th, 2025. This will not be a sustained

argument explaining everything in cogent and meticulous detail, but rather a random collection

of observations, somewhat in the style of mystery science theater. Don't try to

figure out the flow, in other words. But if you stay with me, as you know you probably should,

by the end, you will have a somewhat better grasp of what it is that is falling down on our heads

from the mezzanine. To change the metaphor, try to imagine Howard Gosell providing a moment-by-moment

commentary on a cafeteria food fight. Judging from the number

of think pieces on Christian nationalism, some of them involving, as Miss Piggy would say,

moi, one might come to believe that it is the leading peril of our times. But in the meantime,

the vice president is a Catholic married to a Hindu, the new director of the FBI is a Hindu,

the secretary of the treasury is married to another dude, which we director of the FBI is a Hindu. The secretary of the treasury

is married to another dude, which we didn't like very much when Pete Buttigieg did it. And Paula White

Kane, now running the White House faith office, is married to Jonathan Kane of Journey fame,

who wrote the song Don't Stop Believing, when a proper storyline would have had her married to someone

from the band, Boston. The short form of all this is that we seem to be a good ways off from any kind of robust Protestant takeover.

While we are on the topic of Christian nationalism, however brief our time on that subject may be,

in the providence of God, and for the time being, I do find myself as one of the recognized national spokesman for the movement.

That said, let me take

this opportunity to say that we stand with Israel. Am I trolling anybody? Why would you think that? Why would

you even say something like that? So one of the things about the new Trump administration that is

causing the freak out on the left is the fact that a bunch of believing Christians are now in the

mix. The problem for progressives is not that these Christians are now seated on thrones,

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