First on Fox – Vice President Kamala Harris recently hired a director for her campaign, who Large group of white Christians attacked and claimed that the US is an imperialist “cult” and a “bloodthirsty… beast”.
Progressive Rev. Jennifer Butler was brought in to attract people of faith to the Harris-Walz ticket. Butler has argued that white supremacists have “hijacked” ChristianityAnd now he’s running a program to root out so-called white nationalism among Christians.
“Today we face fundamental threats to democracy,” the Presbyterian minister said in his 2020 book “Who Stole My Bible?” “The wealthy are predominantly white and the people who are systematically economically disadvantaged are people of color.”
He wrote, “These many-headed beasts expose the corruption of the imperialist system around us. The imperialist creed of the United States, whose stock market is booming while unemployment is skyrocketing, has blinded many of us to our own reality.”
New Harris Campaign Faith Director Rev. Butler (Fox News Digital-Hannah Grossman | Getty)
He claimed that “these disasters are an apocalypse… a revelation… of the greedy, bloody imperial beast hidden beneath the fine linen.”
Butler attacked both militarism and individualism.
Christians must “come out of hiding” and bear witness to the word of justice in the face of a brutal empire that is asserting its control. They must resist the temptation to go along with the imperial military status quo.”
“Individualism triumphs over caring for neighbors and liberty over equality, with communities of color most affected,” he wrote.
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Other parts of the book accuse Christians of being affiliated with white supremacism.
“A vast majority of white Christians are marching to the tune of white nationalism,” he said. “Given all this, nothing could be more important than reclaiming this revolutionary book called the Bible and working to make its vision for radical justice, equality, and liberation a reality.”
The second part claims that Christians are using their religious freedom as a weapon.
“Instead of using religious freedom as a shield, Christians are using it as a sword,” Butler wrote.
Rev. Butler, the Harris campaign’s faith director, wrote a book in 2020 called “Who Stole My Bible?” (Fox News Digital-Hannah Grossman | YouTube/Screenshot)
Kristen Wagner, president of the Alliance Defending Freedom, explained, Fox News Digital In an interview he said that Butler’s book used threatening language.
“I don’t think it makes sense to use intimidation and name-calling tactics to put people down because they don’t share a particular belief. We know that religious freedom is a fundamental human right,” the ADF president said. “We know it should be extended to all people, and it provides benefits to all of society, and it protects the right to dissent in the context of religious freedom.”
Wagner called Butler’s comments equating Christians with white supremacy divisive.
He added, “The historic teaching of the church has not changed. So to suggest that this is in any way connected or connected to anything else is contextually inaccurate and it’s also historically inaccurate. And it suggests that Rev. Butler is not about religious freedom or bringing people of faith together, but instead is using political ideology to divide, polarize and separate.”
Flanked by labor union leaders, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris addresses union workers during a campaign event at Northwestern High School on September 02, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Butler recently told Religion News Service (RNS) Their agenda is to bring “faith voices for justice” to the Harris-Walz purview.
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“The Harris-Walz campaign is a truly unique opportunity Change the direction of the debate “Engaging all of the people who are concerned about what a Trump presidency will mean, what the work of this campaign will be, and what it can do to change America,” he said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign and Butler for comment but did not receive an immediate response.
