January 6: A Failed Apocalypse

The attack on the house of democracy has shown the world how far Americans have drifted away from the gospel and have made their faith more a political game.

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Preceding

Francis Fukuyama and ‘The End of History?’

Deal of the century or roadmap to apartheid?

The one that exploded the great American story that lay beneath it

The Trump clan declares itself a Kennedy-like dynasty

So-called own sacred values under threat

U.S.A. Investment in a demagogue

Dear Mr. President

Religion and the essence of devotion

Facts: Why they matter and how to check them

Evangelicals: For The Love Of Trump

Evangelicals & Seduction

Death to the GOP! Or not.

Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response Book Review

A History Of The Culture Wars

A Theology of Culture War Christianity

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Additional reading

1. Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
2. The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle
3. The American clouds of Anti-Semitism
4. Trump has been buffetted by accusations of misconduct (Our World)
5. Trump has been buffetted by accusations of misconduct (Some View on the World)
6. Fearmongering succeeded and got the bugaboo a victory (Our World)
7. Fearmongering succeeded and got the bugaboo a victory (some View on the World)
8. American Christianity no longer resembles its Founder
9. God Isn’t a Republican
10. A new decade, To open the eyes to get a right view
11. Voted against their system (Our World)
12. Voted against their system (Some View on the World)
13. Incidents of hate have become commonplace in the U.S.A. anno 2017 (Our World)
14. Incidents of hate have become commonplace in the U.S.A. anno 2017 (Some View on the World)
15. A Progressive Call to Arms
16. Added commentary to the posting A Progressive Call to Arms
17. Christian fundamentalists feeding Into the Toxic Partisanship and driving countries into the Dark Ages… #1
18. Christian fundamentalists feeding Into the Toxic Partisanship and driving countries into the Dark Ages… #2
19. According to Pew Most White Evangelicals Don’t Think COVID-19 is a Medical Crisis
20. What Steve Bannon really wants
21. Trump going over the top bringing a blasphemous act
22. Trump Dragging the Jews and Israel into the scrum, using both as one more weapon in his racist rants.
23. Stress-test for democracy #1 Storming of the Capitol in Washington
24. Stress-test for democracy #2 A coup d’etat with bloodshed
25. Trump is proven wrong by the judge
26. Right-wing fundamentalist Christians to dictate the U.S.A.
27. The death knell of an Empire
28. Donald Trump requesting to block investigations about the insurrection
29. The Moral Character of Public Officials: Remembering January 6
30. Looking at 2021 in a nutshell
31. 2021 in review #1 the most startling point
32. One year ago people who said they love America stormed the Capitol
33. One year ago a sacred place was attacked
34. Is it Time to Abandon “Evangelical?”
35. Fascinating times to the Bible reader
36. Signs of the times – “The US, Israel and the Golan Heights”

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Jared Stacy

January 6th was a theological event. Just a month before, the Jericho March rallies in DC featured nationalist prayers. They declared God’s will was to reinstate Donald Trump. At the insurrection a month later, the Cross & signs of “Jesus Saves” joined the mob up the Capitol steps. 

January 6th was more than a failed political coup. It was a failed theological apocalypse. Treated this way, we come to an inevitable conclusion: this god lost. He lost because Donald Trump was not President on January 7th. We should never stop asking “what happened?” Even when some want to forget it. For those who keep asking, we need to perform a theological autopsy of this failed apocalypse.

Some speak of healing from January 6th politically or culturally. We have political committees doing important work. But healing from January 6th is impossible without addressing the failed theology at the heart of the violence. 

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