Christian Nationalists Ask Their God To Steal the 2022 Election
As the congressional midterm elections of 2022 near their end, Republican politicians are now openly speaking as if they have the endorsement of the supernatural ruler of the universe. They are asking their followers to accept that Jesus was a Republican.
On November 6, at a rally for Republican Senator Marco Rubio and ex-president Donald Trump, Esteban Bovo, the mayor of Hialeah, Florida, gave the following prayer to the Christian god. Bovo said:
“I ask all of you to stand up stand up so we could pray together stand up. I ask the lord to descend upon this free state. I ask the lord to put his hand on the United States of America and guide and bless those and help those that want to stop the craziness in our country. God, we ask that you put blessing amongst those that want to stop the education system from teaching us weird things. Bless those that want to teach our kids arithmetic, English and reading, we ask the lord to bless all of those that are fighting against an ideology that will destroy this country. And lord, we ask you on Tuesday, let your mighty hand be felt as one after another after another go to the voting booth and support republican candidates up and down the ballot, lord… to make America great again and we do all of this in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, Amen. May god bless you all.”
The strangeness of Esteban Bovo’s political prayer comes into focus when we remember that Bovo, and everyone else who shares the stage with Donald Trump, claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump.
Christian Nationalists like Esteban Bovo do not believe in the power of the American people to decide their own elections. So, they’re calling for supernatural beings to swoop in and use their magical power to change the results of the 2022 elections. Bovo wants the “mighty hand” of the Christian god to alter the election. Christian Nationalists don’t trust the American people, because they think that Americans are too “weird”, so they want a god to descend from on high to magically change the outcome of America’s elections.
How is that not weird?
Christian Nationalism is centered around the belief that the American people shouldn’t have a democracy, that human voters shouldn’t set the direction of government in their own country. They believe that, in the ultimate stolen election, their god should have sovereign power as a king over the United States, and then rule forever as an all-powerful magical monarch.
The fact that the Republicans in Florida are campaigning for public office today in the name of a god from a cult from the far eastern fringes of the Roman Empire thousands of years ago shows how out of touch with the day to day realities of life the GOP has become.
Esteban Bovo says that he wants schools not to teach “weird things”, but he was given a 100% positive rating by the Christian Family Coalition of Florida. That organization wants public schools to lead children in the rituals of religion that teaches the following weird things:
a 2,000 year old necromancer will return to destroy the Earth while magically taking his followers to another dimension where they will be able to live forever
demons and other evil spirits are serious threat to public safety
the Earth is only about 6,000 years old
people can do magic rituals to ask an invisible spirit to give them whatever they want
dragons and sea monsters and witches are real
People like Esteban Bovo and Donald Trump have the right to believe these weird things if that’s the kind of life they want to lead.
America’s schools should be teaching more useful information. Government in the United States of America should focus on policies that help people in practical ways, not on obsessions with invisible spirits and magical rituals. Christian Nationalism is leading America down a dark path away from the real world and into a realm of sinister fantasies.
