Building Community
Fighting back against Christo-fascism
I was very honored to co-host a Twitter Space conversation earlier this evening with the A9 Collective, Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza, Stuff Christian Culture Likes, and Dr. Jessica Johnson.
The A9 Collective describes itself as Faithfully Antifascist and antiracist. They are a collective of researchers, activists and community fighting the spread of white Christian Fascism in faith spaces.
If you were unable to join while we were live, the recording is available for replay.
The topic for this conversation was focused on Mark Driscoll who was recently seen with gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake. The experts and activists who spoke expanded the conversation to give their firsthand experience and understanding of the patriarchy, abuse and fascistic undertones of some charismatic evangelical leaders making waves in right-wing politics.
A little more on the other “faith leader” picture with candidate Kari Lake, Sean Feucht. He is someone who can be found in and around Mike Flynn’s circles. Recently, he announced his ministry purchased a house on Capitol Hill which they intend on using to serve as a ministry hub to congressional leaders. They also organize rallies/marches and test the bounds of restriction on nonprofits, churches and political activity.
Dr. Jessica Johnson discussed some points she had written about in this piece from The Revealer that is certainly worth a read.
What I appreciated the most from the conversation was A9 Collective’s goal to bring together people interested in building an inclusive, ethical, well-informed and antifascist community. By expanding our reach across the country to build a coalition of experts, researchers and activists. we have an opportunity to fight back with backup.
I hope you enjoy(ed) the conversation and I look forward to more discussions in the future. Thank you to my friends who hopped on to support the cause.
This was the first Space I’ve joined so I was laughing when one of the hosts said “help I’m old, is this video?” bc honestly I wasn’t sure either lol. I enjoyed listening & with everything going on appreciate the sense of ‘community’ 🥹
If I were a non cult type religious person I would be so angry that these clowns are ruining it for people, making all religions look bad.
“On January 12, 25 million people had joined Telegram from around the world in 72 hours” 😳Wow. I hope there’s something that can be done for these folks that have been sucked in. My hairdresser was Q and now she’s following trumps former pastor & fasting etc 🫤 but what I found out recently was that she was brought up in a household where their pastor spoke in tongues etc. That explained a lot for me sadly.
I am agnostic but I'm deeply concerned about some of my churchgoing friends who need to know about this invading threat to their community.
I'm going on a cruise with one friend soon so I'm thankful to be able to know some of the names of newly influential people who could drag their churches into this cult.
Knowledge is power but also a burden, I've discovered.
I feel helpless having so much knowledge about what could become impending doom, yet not being able to do anything about it and being looked at like I'm crazy when I repeat truths that aren't "on the news".
First thing people ask is, where did you get that from?
Oh I follow a bunch of OSINT researchers online...
Ok, nutjob. Ugh.
Am I the only one who has trouble feeling credible to others?