MSNBC’s Joy Reid is terrified of religion intersecting with politics and is constantly worrying on The ReidOut about the threat of “Christian Nationalism.” On Wednesday, though, she found an exception for Kamala Harris supporters who mix religion and politics because they are like the “Christian pastors who led the civil rights movement.”
Reid made the literally unbelievable claim that “Evangelical Christians for Kamala Harris was not on anyone's bingo card for 2024. Because most people assume Evangelical is synonymous with conservative. It's not.”
In 2024, every group is for everyone. There’s probably a Chefs for Harris out there somewhere with a Chefs for Trump counterpart. Still, Reid continued, “There are plenty of Evangelicals who reject the mean, selfish version of the religion that follow Jesus the Christ. We call them Red Letter Christians, think Bishop William Barber, friend of the show, who is, wait for it, an evangelical Christian.”
Barber rejects meanness so much, he once suggested on MSNBC that praying for Donald Trump is heretical. Barber and Reid have also teamed up to attack Rep. Steve Scalise for not being a liberal less than a week after he was nearly assassinated. He has also smeared Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as being like segregationist George Wallace.
As for Reid, she continued, “Think of the Christian pastors who led the civil rights movement, think Rev. Sharpton. Not all Christians are the Evangelical white dudes with main character energy from The Handmaid’s Tale, but this most surprising election does keep delivering surprises. Even some white Evangelical Protestants are fed up with Trump. That is a group that gave him 84 percent of their national vote in 2020.”
If the idea that Christians who oppose baby murder under the guise of “choice” are the bad guys wasn’t outrageous enough, it was about to get much worse. Reid then claimed that progressives voting for the Democratic presidential candidate is a sign of “divine intervention,” claiming, “They're not alone in tiring of his act. A separate group, Christians for Kamala, had a Zoom meeting that included leaders from several progressive groups urging supporters to get behind Harris and Walz. Call it divine intervention, or perhaps lots of Christians are just getting fed up with being associated with the hateful vision of Donald Trump.”
By “hateful vision,” Reid doesn’t just mean Donald Trump the person; she means opposing abortion and gender ideology. She likes liberal Christianity because it is liberal.
Here is a transcript for the August 14 show:
MSNBC The ReidOut
8/14/2024
7:02 PM ET
JOY REID: Evangelical Christians for Kamala Harris was not on anyone's bingo card for 2024. Because most people assume Evangelical is synonymous with conservative. It's not. There are plenty of Evangelicals who reject the mean, selfish version of the religion that follow Jesus the Christ. We call them Red Letter Christians, think Bishop William Barber, friend of the show, who is, wait for it, an evangelical Christian.
Think of the Christian pastors who led the civil rights movement, think Rev. Sharpton. Not all Christians are the Evangelical white dudes with main character energy from The Handmaid’s Tale, but this most surprising election does keep delivering surprises. Even some white Evangelical Protestants are fed up with Trump. That is a group that gave him 84 percent of their national vote in 2020.
They're not alone in tiring of his act. A separate group, Christians for Kamala, had a Zoom meeting that included leaders from several progressive groups urging supporters to get behind Harris and Walz. Call it divine intervention, or perhaps lots of Christians are just getting fed up with being associated with the hateful vision of Donald Trump.
