Project 1619, we might recall, was an attempt by the Woke Left to instill (or rather extend) Racial Identity Politics into American Academia and Media as part and parcel of the Strategy of Tension---keeping the public divided and unfocused on the Oligarchy. The Project collapsed after the Oligarchs threatened to stop funding these institutions; and the schools quickly abandoned their principled stands and switched to the New Normal. Now the name of this project came from the year 1619, when the first slaves were brought to North America from Africa. This was roughly the same time that the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock to escape religious persecution by the English Government and establish a theocratic state of their own.
Yesterday, therefore, in a 9-hour, taxpayer-subsidized marathon inside the DC Beltway (which we should remind everyone is still under military occupation), the Woke Right advanced its own throwback to 1619: bypassing the Enlightenment ideals that actually founded our Republic and brought forward the theocratic vision of the Pilgrims. Misleadingly named Rededicate 250, this event was intended to inaugurate the Christian Nationalist Cult as the de facto State Religion.
It's noteworthy that during this shamelessly idolatrous Praise-a-Thon where top Government Officials and Megachurch Televangelists tried to outdo one another in their sychophantic worship of the New Order and its figurehead, the White House issued a Truth Social post once again threatening the Iranian people with annihilation. That's deeply symbolic of the authoritarian bent of this initiative; that it will be bought at the price of a lot of innocent blood. It's also telling that the event was underwritten by several Corporate sponsors including WEF Strategic Partners Salesforce, whose founder Marc Benioff sits on the WEF Board of Trustees; and German Tech giant SAP. WEF member Exegir, which designs software managing Global digital supply-chains used by over a quarter of Fortune 500 companies was also a sponsor; as was agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere, whose largest individual shareholder is Bill Gates. My intuition tells me, however, that we'll not hear any questions raised about any of this on any Christian Conservative sites anytime soon.
Lou Engle and Dutch Sheets, two of the ringleaders of the New Apostolic Reformation and proponents of the Seven Mountain Mandate were the keynote speakers. The Seven Mountain Mandate is essentially the same as Curtis Yarvin's (and other Red-Pill Cultists') Dark Enlightenment only with pseudo-Christian and less overtly Nihilistic messaging. Both are Reactionary versions of the Cultural Marxists' Long March through the Institutions. Citing Trump's videotaped opening address, Engle proclaimed that the event and Trump's message signaled a “covenantal renewal. This event is different than any other solemn assembly because the president of the United States has called this day... Biblically speaking, it was when the kings of Israel called solemn assemblies and the people responded, God shifted the nation and poured out his spirit. I believe we are in that moment right now!”
These two worthies were followed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Young-Earth Creationist, avowed Christian Nationalist and also a Seven-Mountain proponent. Other Administration officials and Megagchurch pastors followed suit in much the same vein; but the point of all of it was fairly clear. The only 'rededication' going on was the re-establishment of the Institutional Church like those our forefathers attempted to escape. Engle's speech set the tone: he openly cast Trump in the role of a biblical monarch summoning the nation to religious submission to the Cult of the New Order. Engle made the political/theological claim that the United States must now be reordered under Christian Nationalist authority with Trump (for now) as the central political figure in that process. The fact that this event was promoted by the White House itself shows that this is the direction that National Policy is going.
Of course, the Denialists and Apologists among Christian Conservatives will slough all of this off and see no problem with any of it. They forget, however, that NSPM-7 specifically targets "anti-Christian views" as indicators of terrorism. This began official enforcement by the US Department of Justice in December and was recently codified by Deep State Operative and suspected Neo-Nazi Sebastian Gorka, who authored the 2026 National Counter-Terrorism Strategy. It is no coincidence that Mike Johnson's Congress has sped up and locked in spending for expansions of the Surveillance State, increases in secret police and paramilitary domestic strike forces, and a network of interment camps. It is also no accident that Christian Nationalists hold the top positions at the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, and Office of Management and Budget: which are the enforcement and funding arms of these programs. The two top Administration Officials after Trump---J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio--- are both Opus Dei (i.e. the Catholic wing of Christian Nationalism) affiliated.
The question is: how long are American Church Leaders going to stand by and let these Reactionaries hijack the Faith and turn it into a political force? So far, we've seen very little objection. It should be obvious by now what is coming; so there should be no excuses when the persecution actually starts.
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