MSNBC Guest Panics Over Christians Believing Rights Come from God Instead of ‘Earthly Authority’

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Politico investigative reporter Heidi Przybyla was leaned on for her supposed expertise on Christianity during an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday night, but ultimately proved woefully unsuited to the task.

After being asked how members of Congress were reacting to Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) leadership, which was characterized as an “infusion of Christian nationalism into the body politic of the House,” Przybyla proceeded to butcher her interpretation of the distinction between Christians and Christian nationalists.

After warning that Christian nationalists “have a lot of power in Trump’s circle,” she insisted that “the one thing that unites all of them, because there’s many different groups orbiting Trump, but the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists — not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different — is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don’t come from any earthly authority. They don’t come from Congress, they don’t come to the Supreme Court, they come from God.”

She continued:

The problem with that is that they are determining man, men — it is men — are determining what God is telling them. And in the past, that so-called natural law is, you know, it’s a pillar of Catholicism for instance, it’s been used for good in social justice campaigns. Martin Luther King evoked it in talking about civil rights.

But now, you have an extremist element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including abortion, gay marriage, and it’s going much further than that as you see, for instance, with the ruling in Alabama this week that judges connected to that Dominionist faction and talking about a lot of other issues, including surrogacy, IVF, you know, sex education in schools. There’s a lot in addition.

Przybyla later replied to critics on X, where her argument went viral, she doubled down by writing that “while there are different wings of Christian Nationalism, they are bound by their belief that our rights come from God.”

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