'We’re getting close': Ex-Trump official calls on fundamentalist Christians to 'heed the call to arms'
Far-right Evangelical firebrand William Wolfe — who also served as a senior Trump administration official — recently gave a speech suggesting his fellow fundamentalist Christians should prepare for war.
According to Right Wing Watch, Wolfe delivered the remarks at an event in Syracuse, New York entitled "Jesus & Politics Conference IV: Hail to Jesus." The former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Director of Legislative Affairs at Trump's State Department bolstered his remarks by repeatedly quoting from a 1758 sermon delivered by Virginian pastor Samuel Davies. That sermon, delivered in the midst of the French and Indian War, was dubbed "the Curse of Cowardice," and Davies warned Christians that they were "in danger by the loss of our religion." Wolfe echoed Davies' remarks that "the art of war becomes a part of our religion."
"If we have ever lived in a point in time in American history since then that we could argue that now is the time to arms again, I think we are getting close," Wolfe said. "Even though as Christians we seek peace, when the enemy is pressed upon us, if we fail to heed the call to arms, then we are acting as cowards."
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"To be ruled by cowards in a time of war is a curse, because God hates cowards," Wolfe added.
Wolfe has previously embraced the term "Christian nationalist," which is the term used to describe adherents to an ideology that American society should be restructured in a hierarchy where Christians — predominantly white and male Christians — are at the top, and believers in other faith traditions are forced to conform to Christian standards and beliefs. Typical Christian nationalist policies are bans on abortion without exception, making gay marriage illegal again, and state-sanctioned persecution of the LGBTQ+ community.
"God is not God of just your heart; God is God of the public square," Wolfe said during an appearance on alt-right streamer Stew Peters' Rumble channel. "And I would say that even if a judge or a dog catcher or a president is not a Christian, what they need to recognize most fundamentally is that all authority in God’s creation is derivative from the Creator, and He tells everybody in authority how they should use it."
"[O]ur call as Christian nationalists is twofold: yes, we want more unapologetic Christians leading in the public square as Christians, but we’re calling on all leaders who exercise authority — whether they’re Christian or not — to recognize that they will answer to the one supreme authority and they need to learn how to exercise that authority rightly according to his good commands and precepts today," he added.
