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Poll: 75% Support Voter ID Law, Including 60% of Democrats

A new poll set to be released Wednesday by Rasmussen Reports indicates that 75% of Americans support voter ID laws that require voters to show photo identification before voting — including 60% of Democrats. Only 21% oppose such laws.

Democrats are currently pursuing federal legislation to override state voter ID laws. H.R. 1, the so-called “For the People Act,” has already passed the Democrat-controlled House and will soon be introduced in the Senate.

Many Democrats are calling for the filibuster to be eliminated or reformed so that H.R. 1 can pass by a simple majority vote, ending voter ID.

Rasmussen said:

75% Support Voter ID Laws

As the U.S. Senate considers legislation that would revamp America’s election laws, voters still overwhelmingly support laws requiring that voters show identification before casting a ballot.

Seventy-five percent (75%) of Likely U.S. Voters believe voters should be required to show photo identification such as a driver’s license before being allowed to vote. Only 21% are opposed to such a requirement.

Thirty-six states have enacted some form of voter ID law, but those laws would be nullified if the Senate approves H.R. 1, which passed the House on a party-line vote. Critics say H.R. 1 “would force states to allow anyone to vote who simply signs a form saying that they are who they claim they are.”

Support for voter ID laws has actually increased since 2018, when 67% said voters should be required to show photo identification such as a driver’s license before being allowed to vote.

Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans support voter ID requirements, as do 60% of Democrats and 77% of voters not affiliated with either major party.

Preliminary cross-tabs shared with Breitbart News show that black voters also favor voter ID, 69% to 25%, and were evenly split (43% to 43%) on the question of whether voter ID is discriminatory. (51% of Democrats as a whole said that it was, as did 59% of self-identified liberals; 60% of overall voters said that it was not, versus 31% who said that it was.)

Voter ID is standard in much of the rest of the world — including poor, war-torn regions such as Uganda and Iraq, below.

Musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi (C), shows his voter ID card before casting his ballot as he stands next to his wife Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi (R) during the presidential and parliamentary at a polling station in Magere, Uganda, on January 14, 2021. – Ugandans began voting in a tense election on January 14, 2021 under heavy security and an internet blackout as veteran leader Yoweri Museveni pursues a sixth term against a former pop star half his age. The internet went down on the eve of the vote, with some parts of the country reporting complete disruptions or significant slowdowns, after one of the most violent election campaigns in years. (Photo by SUMY SADURNI / AFP) (Photo by SUMY SADURNI/AFP via Getty Images)
An Iraqi man displays his electronic voter ID card he received from election commission officials in the capital Baghdad on February 25, 2014, ahead of legislative elections in April. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

Democrats, such as Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), the number two-ranked member of his caucus, said Monday that the filibuster needed to be reformed because it is “being misused by some Senators to block legislation urgently needed and supported by strong majorities of the American people.”

However, a strong majority opposes parts of H.R. 1. — at least the voter ID provisions, which contradict the preferences of three out of four likely U.S. voters, according to Rasmussen.

H.R. 1 says states “may not require an individual to provide any form of identification as a condition of obtaining an absentee ballot” and lets voters to use a “sworn written statement” rather than photo ID, which it calls a restriction on the right to vote.

Rush Limbaugh’s radio time slot to be taken over by Dan Bongino

Following Limbaugh’s death last month, Bongino said ‘every conservative I know, everyone has had that Rush Limbaugh moment where they were listening and heard an idea for the first time ever’

Conservative commentator Dan Bongino will take over Rush Limbaugh’s radio time slot, Fox News reported, citing a Wednesday announcement from Cumulus Media’s Westwood One.

What are the details?

Starting May 24, “The Dan Bongino Show” will broadcast 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET in markets around the country, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., the cable network said.

“The Dan Bongino Show will tackle the hot political issues, debunking both liberal and Republican establishment rhetoric,” a press release noted, Fox News said. “As a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer, Bongino is uniquely positioned to provide commentary and analysis that directly questions the philosophical underpinnings of both the Left and Big Government Republicans.”

Bongino is a Fox News contributor and has his own daily podcast, which has become wildly popular. He said he is “excited to embrace the immense power of radio to connect with my listeners live for three hours every day. This is an incredible privilege, and I pledge to honor the trailblazing work of those who came before me,” the cable network said.

“Dan is passionate and relatable, with a natural ability to connect with his audience,” Westwood One President Suzanne Grimes said in a statement, according to Fox News. “Dan has been on a meteoric rise since his podcast launched in 2019, and we look forward to watching his star continue to soar.”

Bongino was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in September, Fox News said. But he announced last week that he completed his treatments and has been given a clean bill of health.

Following Limbaugh’s passing, Bongino appeared on “Fox & Friends” and praised the conservative radio icon: “Every conservative I know, everyone has had that Rush Limbaugh moment where they were listening and heard an idea for the first time ever.”

Judge Rules Election Must Be Held In-Person, Ensures A ‘Fair Process.’

A judge ruled that an upcoming general election must be rescheduled so it can be held in person as opposed to relying on mail-in ballots.

“A tribal court judge ruled Thursday that mail-in voting is against the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s constitution and ordered that the upcoming general election be rescheduled so it can be held in person,” a local news outlet summarized.

In the decision from Amanda L. WhiteEagle, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Alternate District Court Judge, she noted “the Constitution is the supreme law, and ordinances are to be consistent with the constitutional letter and spirit,” WhiteEagle said in the order.

The case, filed by tribal members including chairman candidate Aaron Tobey Jr, centered on whether or not ballot drop boxes could be viewed as polls in a manner consistent with the tribe’s constitution.

WhiteEagle ruled in favor of Tobey, noting that the defendants attempted a “linguistic somersault” by conflating a U.S. Postal Service a mailbox to a poll.

“As elected officials, we have the duty to do the right thing, and mail-in voting is not one of them, I’m glad the courts are enforcing the laws of the constitution. This is not the time to experiment with mail-in voting. Voting in person gives more confidence to the voters that the election will be a fair process,” Tobey noted.

“The election can be held safely, Tobey said, by following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines,” the outlet adds.

Donald Trump Says ’24 Run Hinges on GOP Winning in ’22

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday his decision to make another run at the White House will hinge on Republicans regaining the majority in the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.

“Based on every poll, they want me to run again,” Trump told Fox News’ “Primetime” with Maria Bartiromo in a 22-minute interview via telephone. “But we are going to take a look and we will see.”

In the meantime, Trump vowed to work hard for the GOP to regain the majority in the House, and flip the Senate. Democrats currently hold a 219-211 edge in the House (with five vacant seats) and the Senate is a dead heat at a 50-50 split.

“First thing is for us, we have to see what we could do with the House,” Trump told Bartiromo. “I think we have a very good chance at taking back the House. We were going to lose 15-25 seats the last time, [until] I got involved. I worked very hard.”

As for the Senate lead, Trump pinned the blame of two Georgia Jan. 5 runoff election losses on then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., failing to deliver $2,000 COVID-19 impact payments to individuals in the stimulus package passed at the end of the Trump administration, instead settling for $600 per individual.

“Mitch McConnell made a tremendous mistake,” Trump said. “He lost to those two seats.”

“I think we have a chance of taking back the House; I think we have a chance to do better in the Senate,” Trump continued. “We need leadership in the Senate, which frankly we don’t have. We need better leadership in the Senate. We have a good chance to take back the Senate. And frankly, we will make our decision after that.”

President Joe Biden is helping Trump’s decision, too, he said, with massive mistakes on spending and immigration policies that are opening the borders and creating a migrant crisis at the border.

“When you add it all up, I think we will do very well in 2 years, and I think we are going to do very well in four years,” Trump said, teasing an official return to the campaign trail.

It is imperative for Senate Republicans to stop House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s H.R. 1 election bill that would ostensibly rubber stamp elections for Democrats going forward.

“If it’s allowed to happen, I think your Republicans will have a very hard time getting elected,” Trump said. “What will happen is the Democrats will be able to do what they did in the in the 2020 election and even worse, potentially even worse.

“It is set up they can’t believe [they got away with], and it is because of the fact that the Republicans lost two seats that they never should have lost in Georgia.

“When you look at what they did and when you look at the dishonesty and all of the things that took place in that election, they should have never happened. They have to stop that bill.”

41 GOP Senators Ask GAO to Evaluate Biden’s Border Wall Funding Freeze

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on March 17 led 40 Republican colleagues to sign a letter asking the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to evaluate whether President Joe Biden’s suspension of funding and construction of the southern border wall was justified under federal law.

On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order that halted construction on the wall and ordered a suspension of congressional funds allocated for the project. Biden also signed an order that canceled the emergency designation at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The senators wrote (pdf) that despite the progress being made to control illegal immigration, with additional funds being authorized by Congress for the wall, Biden still signed a proclamation directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of Management and Budget to “pause immediately the obligation of funds related to the construction of the southern border wall” and “pause work on each construction project on the southern border wall.”

Biden’s proclamation stated that the wall was a waste of money and isn’t a “serious policy solution.”

The group of Republican senators believes the actions violate the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) but they want a legal evaluation from Comptroller General Gene Dodaro.

“They are also a blatant violation of federal law and infringe on Congress’s constitutional power of the purse. We are writing regarding these actions. We believe they violated the ICA, as interpreted by your office, and we request your legal opinion on the matter,” wrote the senators.

The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 reconfirmed Congress’s power of the purse. In addition, the law established ways to prevent the sitting president and other government officials from single-handedly replacing their own funding preference for that of Congress.

“The president is not vested with the power to ignore or amend a duly enacted law, instead he must faithfully execute the law as Congress enacts it,” the GOP letter continued.

The senators said they believe the freezing of the border wall funds and constructions contributed to the “humanitarian and national security crisis” at the border.

A border patrol agent told Full Measure News that the halting of the southern wall construction was hasty and has left wide roads that drug cartels can now use for illegal activity.

“Now what we have is an infrastructure that the cartels can benefit from,” said the border patrol agent.

Meanwhile, border states such as Texas are trying to work around Biden’s border wall policies. Texas, which shares 1,200 miles of border with Mexico, is one of the states that bears the brunt of the huge influx of illegal immigrants.

On March 15, Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton, a Republican, filed HB 2862, which would fund the completion of the border wall in Texas with state funds.

Apprehensions at the southern border have climbed every month since April 2020 and reached 96,974 in February, according to new data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agency that includes Border Patrol.

Opponents to Biden’s immigration policies say that his other decisions to reverse Trump-era policies, such as the remain-in-Mexico program, which required asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico until their claims could be heard, are contributing to the surge in migrants at the border.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) took to Twitter on March 16 to comment on the crisis at the border.

“Halting border wall construction, reducing enforcement, pausing deportations—Biden sent the message loud and clear that our border is open. Now, we’re seeing a predictable crisis of Dems’ own making, on pace to break 20-year records,” wrote Thune.

FACT CHECK: Biden Claims He Didn’t Invite Migrants To The U.S. Border… He Actually Told Them To “Surge” There.

In George Stephanopoulos’s very short interview with President Joe Biden – billed as “extensive,” “expansive,” and “wide-ranging” – the president denied the situation at the border, took a swipe at Americans who don’t “listen,” and bragged on his macho encounter with Vladimir Putin.

Asked when Americans might return to normalcy, Biden had stern words for people who would ease up on COVID-19 mitigation measures and exercise their freedom to decline the vaccine.

“I won’t be able to meet the July 4 deadline unless people listen,” Biden said. “I just don’t understand this sort of macho thing about, ‘I’m not gonna get the vaccine, I have a right as an American, my freedom to not do it.’ Well, why don’t you be a patriot, protect other people?”

“How about emphasizing the positive?” Stephanopoulos jumped in, prompting Biden to share that since he got the vaccine, he can hug and spend time with his grandchildren.

Biden first tried to deny the ongoing catastrophic surge was irregular, then denied that he sent the wrong message on immigration, then denied that children are held in cells, then finally said “quite clearly, don’t come.”

On the surge: “There was a surge the last two years in ’19 and ’20, there was a surge as well.”

“This one might be worse,” Stephanopoulos chimed in. 

“No—well it could be,” Biden replied. (His own DHS chief confirmed this week that the biggest surge in 20 years is underway.) “But here’s the deal. First of all, the idea that Joe Biden said ‘come’ is—I heard the other day that they’re coming because they know I’m a nice guy, and I won’t do what Trump did.” 

Stephanopoulos exclaimed back, “They’re saying this!”

“Well, here’s the deal: they’re not. The adults are being sent back, number one. Number two, what do you do with an unaccompanied child that comes to the border? Do you repeat what Trump did? Take them from their mothers? Move them away? Hold them in cells, et cetera? We’re not doing that!” (False. They are doing that. And he did invite them to.)

Finally, Biden said, “I can say quite clearly, don’t come.” BUT—Biden previewed schemes in progress to (1) install DHS and HHS facilities—concierge immigration services—in foreign countries to process asylum cases and (2) boost foreign aid to “change the circumstances on the ground” and “diminish the reason why people want to leave in the first place.”

It was recently revealed that Biden had placed a gag order on Border Patrol Agents so they can’t speak to the press about the crisis.

Apparently, Putin Doesn’t Have A Soul.

Biden responded to U.S. intelligence reports that Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin pushed disinformation about Biden to his allies during the 2020 election: “He will pay a price… If I establish this occurred, then be prepared.”

Stephanopoulos quizzed Biden about a 2014 encounter in which Biden supposedly accused Putin of not having a soul, a story that Biden relishes telling.

“I did say that to him, yes. And his response was, we understand one another. I wasn’t being a wise guy, I was alone with him in his office, that’s how it came about… I said, ‘Looked in your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.’ Looked back at me and said ‘We understand each other.’ Look, most important thing dealing with foreign leaders, in my experience, and I’ve dealt with an awful lot of them in my career, is just know the other guy.”

While Biden apparently takes pride in having met with Putin alone, President Donald Trump was excoriated for doing so.

On Afghanistan: It Would Be “Like Sanskrit To People Listening Here”

Will U.S. troops leave Afghanistan by May 1? Unclear, Biden said, blaming it on a disorderly transition. (It’s worth noting that Presidential transitions are a relatively new concept.)

When he doesn’t want to answer questions, Biden often implies the audience is too stupid to understand the answers. He did that on ABC: 

“The fact is that it was not a very solidly negotiated deal that, uh, the president—the former president worked out . . . Look, one of the drawbacks, George, and this is gonna be like Sanskrit to people listening here, but uh, it is the failure to have an orderly transition from the Trump presidency to my presidency, which usually takes place from Election Day to the time you’re sworn in, has cost me time and consequences. For example, we didn’t realize how bad things were in terms of lack of vaccine, we were not able to get access to this information. That’s part of one of the issues we’re talking about now in terms of Afghanistan.”

This reply is not in fact “like Sanskrit to people listening”; it’s Biden’s predictable explanation for anything that is unpopular. 

On Cuomo: Women’s Claims Should Be “Taken Seriously.”

If the investigations into Gov. Andrew Cuomo find that he sexually harassed women, should he resign?

“Yes, I think he’d probably end up being prosecuted too.” Biden did not join calls for Cuomo to resign now, but said, “A woman should be presumed to [be] telling the truth and should not be scapegoated and become victimized by her coming forward, number one. But there should be an investigation to determine whether what she says is true. That’s what’s going on now . . . I start with the presumption, it takes a lot of courage for a woman to come forward, so the presumption is, she be taken seriously.”

Oh and by the way, the entirety of the “extensive” interview lasted… 14 minutes. 

Philadelphia’s Violent Crime Rate Is Spiking Thanks To Failed Leftist Political Agendas

Democratic Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and city officials acknowledged the city is on track for a record number of homicides, shootings, and confiscated guns this year, following months of Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots.

“It makes me absolutely sick to know that so many Philadelphians have suffered these preventable deaths,” Kenney said at a press conference Wednesday. “It’s painfully clear that we must take new approaches.”

According to new data from the Philadelphia Police department, homicides are up 30 percent in 2021 year-to-date. There have been 412 nonfatal shooting victims, whereas there were 258 last year. In total, 690 individuals have been arrested for illegal firearms compared to 355 last year. African Americans accounted for 86 percent of the shooting victims.

The city will now be holding bi-weekly briefings for the public that will be streamed on Facebook Live. The violent crime increase in Philadelphia can partially be attributed to Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner, who created a court diversionary program titled Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition that gives violent criminals a second opportunity to be released after a probationary period.

Krasner received $1.7 million from billionaire George Soros in 2017 in his election campaign. The Krasner campaign and Soros PAC spent about $1.9 million, which pales in comparison to the second-highest campaign money spent by Michael Untermeyer.

Soros notably invested $220 million in Black Lives Matter and other “racial equity” groups in July. He is also a backer of the Minnesota Freedom Fund that bailed out rioters and looters in response to the death of George Floyd. Krasner has come under fire for his controversial past of suing the Philadelphia Police department 75 times and calling law enforcement “systemically racist.”

“In 2020, when Philadelphia was ravished by radical left organizations like Black Lives Matter and criminal opportunists who rioted, looted, and torched police cars, District Attorney Larry Krasner failed to hold the perpetrators accountable,” nearby Montgomery County Commissioner Republican Joe Gale, who is currently running for governor in the Commonwealth told The Federalist.

“The Philly DA is clearly more concerned with placating progressives and furthering his political agenda than maintaining law and order. This toxic attitude of indifference is why Philadelphia suffered nearly 500 homicides and over 2,200 shootings last year,” Gale said.

“We don’t give up. We don’t give in,” said Kenney in January. “We are determined to save lives and create peace. We will turn the page on this dark chapter in the history of our city, and we will write the new book together. I vow to be with Philadelphians every step of the way as we take on this challenge.”

In June, Kenney dropped his prior proposal to increase police funding, and instead vied to slash budgets.

“We think we can police better and make sure we put the resources in the departments that can affect change and make the situation in our neighborhoods better,” he said this summer. “We want to approach this open-mindedly, but some of these things have to happen.”

Cities across the country experienced notable shootings and homicide increases this summer, with as much as 265 percent in Atlanta, 130 percent in New York City, 250 percent in Los Angeles, and 525 percent in crime increases in Seattle.

At the 2020 presidential debate in September, then-President Trump harped on the corruptness of Philadelphia.

“Bad things happen in Philadelphia,” Trump said, “bad things.”

“We are all responsible for what goes on here. This is our community and these are our children,” said Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw.

Large Migrant Groups Continue Crossing Border into Texas — 24K in Two Weeks

Border Patrol agents in the nation’s busiest sector continue to encounter large groups of migrants illegally crossing from Mexico into South Texas. Nearly 24,000 were apprehended in the last two weeks alone — nearly 28,000 for all of February.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents continue to apprehend large groups of migrants illegally crossing the border. Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted last Friday that nearly 24,000 migrants had been taken into custody in his sector during the past two weeks. Hundreds more were apprehended in the days that followed.

On Saturday morning, agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station encountered a group of 134 migrants after they illegally crossed the border near Las Lomas, Texas. The agents identified 128 migrants as family units — mostly from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.

A few hours later, agents from this same station encountered another large group of migrants near La Grulla, Texas. In this incident, the agents apprehended 113 migrants composed of family units and unaccompanied alien children, officials stated. Included in the 113 migrants were 17 Romanian nationals. The balance came to the U.S. from Central America, officials stated.

“Even with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero regard for the lives they endanger nor to the health of the citizens of our great nation,” officials said in a written statement.

Last week, Rio Grande Valley Sector agents apprehended large groups of mostly family-unit migrants from Central America near La Grulla, La Joya, and Roma. These groups totaled 339 migrants from Central America, Romania, and Cuba, officials stated.

“Despite the inherent dangers of crossing the treacherous Rio Grande, illegal aliens continue to risk their lives to enter the United States,” Border Patrol officials stated. “In recent days, Border Patrol has conducted multiple rescues of individuals, who were set adrift by smugglers. Groups are smuggled on inflatable rafts almost always exceeding the maximum capacity of the rafts, and rarely provided life vests.”

Pastor Rick Joyner Urges American Christians to Prepare for Civil War (video)

MorningStar Ministries founder and pastor, Rick Joyner, pleaded with the “true disciples of Christ” in America to rise up and prepare for war with the “evil” forces which he baselessly claimed “stole” the November election from former President Donald Trump.

The longtime Fort Mill, South Carolina, pastor was introduced by evangelical televangelist Jim Bakker on his Monday broadcast as a Christian “prophet.” Joyner claimed without evidence there is a “unified belief and deep conviction” among “true” U.S. Christians that the presidential election was rigged by President Joe Biden and the Democrats. Joyner urged Trump supporters and Christians alike to buy up arms in preparation for a coming “civil war.”

Longtime Missouri-based program host Bakker, who is a convicted felon and was sued last March for selling a “coronavirus cure” to his viewers, pressed Joyner to explain how “cancel culture” is destroying the foundations of America. Neither man mentioned that their church members were part of the early 2000s effort to “cancel” the Harry Potter book series over witchcraft concerns.

“It will be a civil war and it’s going to be increasingly worse with the increasing time it takes for Americans to stand up and push back against this evil that has taken over our land,” Joyner said on Monday’s The Jim Bakker Show. “You know, there’s a time for peace and a time for war it says in [Book of the Bible] Ecclesiastes, well, we’re not headed towards peace right now, we’re headed towards conflict of war. And we need to prepare for it. We need to put out the word that people need to be prepared.”

Joyner referenced several verses of scripture from the Bible to warn of a second impending U.S. Civil War, including Ecclesiastes 3:8, which says there’s “a time to love, and a time to hate, a time of war, and a time of peace.”

Joyner highlighted a round table discussion he held last week with fellow MorningStar Ministries members, an organization he helped create in 1985. Joyner claimed there was unanimous agreement that “our last election was stolen and it was something that we can’t just let go. We have lost our country. We have lost our republic if we lose the integrity of the elections and this was the worst voting fraud in our country’s history.”

“Trump really won by a huge margin,” Joyner stressed, offering no corroborating evidence of the unfounded claim. “Maybe one of the biggest margins ever. How did it get stolen from us like it did?”

Bakker then focused the show toward ongoing claims of “cancel culture” within American society and questioned Joyner on, “why are ‘they’ trying to erase the foundations this country was built upon?”

The streaming program’s chyron advertised a two-disc DVD set called the “thirteen revelation generation” on the screen as Joyner replied.

“Because they were godly foundations, what we have is evil. It’s moving, it’s Isaiah, ‘darkness covering the earth, deep darkness the people, Isaiah 5, ultimate depravity where they’re calling good evil and evil good. Honoring the dishonorable, dishonoring the honorable. And all of this is a major threat, the freedoms we have are a major threat to evil.”

Joyner repeatedly proclaimed that the “body of Christ,” or followers of Christ, will be “separated from the chaff” in the coming civil war.

“There is a unified belief with deep conviction that our last election was a stolen election and it was something that we can’t just let go. … Anybody who looks at the evidence, even superficially, sees right away that was impossible for Trump not to have won that election,” Joyner said.

Newsweek reached out to Joyner’s MorningStar Ministries Tuesday afternoon for additional remarks.

Satanist TikTokker thanks progressive Christians

In a shocking new TikTok video, a man wearing sinister looking red-colored contact lenses, illuminated by an eerie red glow, who refers to himself as a member of the “Lucifer Gang”, takes a moment to thank “progressive Christians,” saying, “There is a wave of Christian people that I have met on this app, and I have found favor among them. Progressive Christians are what the world needs right now.” The TikTokker, whose page is filled with anti-Christian arguments, as well as content promoting witchcraft, ‘dark energy’, and satanic imagery, goes on to say regarding progressive Christians, “We both agree that religion needs massive amounts of change.” 

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For those new to the term, ‘progressive Christian’ isn’t simply a reference to a democrat who is a Christian, but rather a specific viewpoint of both Jesus and the Bible.  Progressive Christianity, also referred to as ‘Liberal Christianity’ or the ‘Christian Left’ (For more on Progressive Christianity, see Lucas Miles’ new book, The Christian Left: How Liberal Thought Has Hijacked the Church), emerged from Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophers like Voltaire, Kant, and Hegel, as well as French Roman Catholic Richard Simon, often referred to as the ‘Father of Biblical Criticism.”

Progressive Christianity introduced to the world a belief in the ‘historic Jesus’, as an intentional distancing from the Biblically orthodox Christ presented in the scriptures.  For the Christian Left, while the Bible may contain certain truths and historical accuracies, it cannot be trusted as a whole and requires human reason to evaluate each and every passage to determine whether or not that specific passage can be used to create a reliable portrait of Jesus.  As such, a progressive view of scripture tends to reject and reason away all supernatural aspects of the Bible, including the miracles of Jesus and the resurrection. In the progressive historic view, Jesus is a good teacher, a social reformer, a rabbi, and a Cynic philosopher, but rarely the Son of God or Christ, the Savior of the world. 

In our day, while beliefs among the Christian Left vary, most hold to a critical view of scripture (as opposed to a traditional view that holds the Bible to be the inerrant ‘Word of God’), an acceptance of Darwinism, a normalization of progressive views of gender and sexuality, and an emphasis of Jesus’ role in social justice and societal reform. Among those often regarded as being modern adherents to a form of Progressive Christianity are author and scholar Bart D. Ehrman, Democratic politician Pete Buttigieg, and journalist Jonathan Merritt. For Ehrman, his historic view of Jesus led him to a form of agnosticism, whereas Buttigieg still claims denominational affiliation with the Episcopal Church. 

Describing his own ‘de-conversion’ from traditional Christian faith, Merritt, a contributing editor at Religion News Service, confessed in a tweet, “Like many, evangelicalism provided me with some wonderful gifts for a season, but I feel like I have grown beyond it in many ways. Its tools and frameworks are no longer sufficient to sustain me in this phase of life. While I honor my heritage, I’m mostly seeking God elsewhere.” For Merritt, his elsewhere, appears to be a form of progressively ‘woke’ Christianity – the kind affirmed in the aforementioned TikTok video.

The reason this video is noteworthy is because it demonstrates the growing chasm between a Biblical view of Christianity and progressive view of Jesus. In the same video, the TikTokker goes on to attack traditional Christians, warning, “Between your flawed bibles, asinine ideals, and just outright misinformation – we’ve had enough.” 

Surprisingly, due to the departure of certain Biblical ideas, such as the Lordship of Jesus and original sin, progressive Christianity apparently is able to stand unified alongside satanism, since the cause of division, namely viewing Jesus as Savior, has been removed. Biblical Christianity, on the other hand, while still offering love to someone caught in the deception of satanism, cannot find agreement or unity in belief, as the apostle Paul wrote, “What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil?”   

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