A couple of days ago, the Cornerstone Methodist Church recommended to its followers a message declaring: “Don’t be a harmless Christian! Don’t be a passive Christian… your praise is a weapon! Your clapping is a weapon! Your shouting is a weapon! Open your mouth! Open your mouth!”
The message is clear: Jennifer Schwartz intends to use her Christianity as a weapon, dividing Americans from each other, smashing unity in the name of religion.
Weapons hurt people. Jennifer Schwartz views Christianity as a weapon that can be used to hurt people.
That’s why Jennifer Schwartz, as pastor of Cornerstone Methodist Church, has joined the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition and endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Jennifer Schwartz is pastor of the Cornerstone Methodist Church in Grundy Center, Iowa.
The Cornerstone Methodist Church had been known as the Grundy Center United Methodist Church, but then Schwartz allowed anti-gay prejudice to splinter her congregation.
Last year, under Schwartz’s leadership, the Grundy Center United Methodist Church announced that it would abandon its affiliation with the United Methodist Church because Schwartz and her followers are not willing to tolerate the presence of LGBTQ Americans or recognize them as equals.
For Schwartz and her followers, unity and acceptance are less important than the power to judge and exclude people. That is why her church took on the new name of Cornerstone Methodist Church.
Many people have a difficult time understanding why some Christians are such fervent devotees of Donald Trump. To grasp what motivates Trump Christians, it’s essential to look at what they actually say and do.
In the new book Donald Trump’s Army of God, authors Clifford and Anise Cook provide a case study of Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
Instead of speculating, they looked at the evidence available to the public, and found murder, terrorism, a lust for religious war, fraud, corruption, bigotry, demons and Nazi propaganda surfing through the minds of Donald Trump’s Christian supporters in Iowa.
It’s a bizarre realm of faith-based fascism, but we can’t just dismiss it. In 2024, more than ever, we need to take this strange movement seriously.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates American law
Let’s learn more about the extremist Christian Nationalists who are members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.