{"id":36492,"date":"2026-05-18T02:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=36492"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:41:07","slug":"beten-auf-befehl-wie-aus-dem-wichtigsten-land-der-welt-unter-trump-ein-evangelikaler-gottesstaat-wird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/beten-auf-befehl-wie-aus-dem-wichtigsten-land-der-welt-unter-trump-ein-evangelikaler-gottesstaat-wird\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer by Order - How the Most Powerful Country in the World Is Becoming an Evangelical Religious State Under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington - There are images that say more about the condition of a country than any election analysis, any poll, any political talk show ever could. On Sunday, Washington became exactly such an image. Thousands of people, many dressed in red, white, and blue, streamed toward the National Mall, the place where history is usually made, and transformed the central boulevard of American democracy into one giant evangelical church service. \"We welcome Jesus into this place!\" one of the first singers shouted from the stage, with ivory-colored columns in the background deliberately echoing the classical architecture of the capital. It was not a church. It was the National Mall. And that was exactly the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The event carried the name \"Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving,\" organized by the Freedom-250 initiative, a public-private partnership backed by the White House. The event was financed with millions in taxpayer dollars. The occasion was the 250th anniversary of American independence. What was actually being celebrated, however, was something else: the final merger of the state with one very specific form of American Christianity. Not faith itself, but a political, evangelical, white-dominated version personally authorized by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among those on stage was Reverend Robert Jeffress, one of the country's most prominent Southern Baptists. He embraced without hesitation the term critics have used for years to describe this phenomenon. \"If being a Christian nationalist means loving Jesus Christ and America, then count me in,\" Jeffress said. In doing so, he simply flipped the term around, wore it as a badge of honor, almost like a medal. What was once an accusation only a few years ago has now become a program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The list of speakers reads like a family reunion of the evangelical Trump movement. Franklin Graham, head of the relief organization Samaritan's Purse and son of preacher Billy Graham. Jonathan Falwell, son of Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell. Gordon Robertson, president of the Christian Broadcasting Network and son of media empire founder Pat Robertson. It is a succession almost dynastic in nature within a movement that officially claims to answer only to God. Also present were Paula White-Cain from the White House Faith Office, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Bishop Robert Barron, and actress Sadie Carroway Robertson from the reality series \"Duck Dynasty,\" alongside Jonathan Roumie, star of the Jesus series \"The Chosen.\" It was a mixture of preachers, politicians, and pop culture figures, perfectly assembled for a production that resembled less a worship service and more a political show with heavenly accompaniment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n