since this got locked before. I'll see if I can say it nicely enough that the moderation allows discussion. fundamental religious groups with writings supporting slavery and other atrocities are taking over small towns, eliminating tax base, ignoring local zoning rules and regulations, and doing soi with the full support of the new and improved DOJ. If a town tries to protest these fundamental religious groups breaking the local laws, they better have the pockets to fight the new and improved DOJ. Some may see a parallel between what this group, and the DOJ element supporting them, is doing to the citizens of these small towns and what other highly charged religious groups do to populations in other third world countries where censorship prevents discussion of such things. This small North Idaho town kept to itself. Then a Christian nationalist church asked the U.S. Government to intervene Christ Church is controversial. Its leader, Doug Wilson, has advocated for male-dominated Christian nationalism in his blog posts and maintained that Moscow, a small college town of more than 26,000, is a place fit for a biblical takeover. “We should want America to be a Christian nation,” Wilson wrote on his blog in 2022. “We want our nation to be a Christian nation because we want all the nations to be Christian nations.” But the controversy largely centers on what he’s done – namely, co-authoring a book defending southern slavery, speaking at Confederate heritage conferences, blogging derisively about women’s breasts, calling the LGBTQ pride flag the “death and sin rag” in his blog and writing that women need to be “led with a firm hand” and “surrender” to a man who “conquers” and “penetrates,” in one of his books. The church owns nearly 20% of properties in a six-block area, according to reporting from Boise State Public Radio, including a small college. Wilson says about 3,000 members – known as “Kirkers”because the church was nicknamed Christ “Kirk,” the Scottish word for “church.” Residents see a pattern – the fight to expand into Troy is just another method Christ Church uses to exert power and control over small towns with scant resources to fight back against religious extremism, said Brian Dennis, a longtime Troy resident and retired professor at the University of Idaho. “It’s the Christian Taliban,” Dennis said. “If the city isn’t careful, they will take over.”
Reminds me a little of when the Rajneesh was taking over the rural town in Oregon. Fascinating documentary for those who haven't seen it. I remember watching Hitchens debate Doug Wilson years back and looks like it's the same Doug Wilson? He didn't seem as out there back then based on what I remember.
