“Brother David” on Substack calls Christian Nationalism an abomination. He goes further to say that it’s heresy. He says that Christian nationalism is “a grotesque bastardization” of scripture used to promote and justify racism and unfettered capitalism. He sternly warns: “God is not pro-American. God is not waving your flag. God is not blessing your bloated military budget…” He then mentions Moses, reminding the reader: “Border walls, police states, religious legislation – that’s not Moses, that’s Pharaoh and Pharaoh’s empire drowns in the sea.”
Brother David says that God chooses a side in the Exodus story and the side isn’t Pharaoh’s, it’s Moses’ – the fugitive, the anti-state terrorist who wanted to burn the empire down. Brother David reminds us that God is an empire breaker, a “prison abolishing, nation-wrecking, table flipping, rich-humbling, power-destroying force of cosmic anarchy.” And one of his most gut-punch-like rebukes, “If you’re building an empire in God’s name, you’re already damned.”
Brother David does what Black, Womanist, Liberation, and Queer religious scholars have done for decades now…he’s reading the bible from the margins and from the view of the marginalized in the text. He’s doing what we call Queering the scriptures. And, honestly, it may be the most faithful way to engage the bible.
