Maybe the most troubling part of Saturday's religiously organized "Jericho" voter fraud rally in DC was Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers, who spoke of "traitors" and "bloody war," urging the summoning of militias and freeing Julian Assange from prison to disseminate seized data. "This guy's keeping it real," emcee Eric Metaxas pronounced.
No, there was not much real about it. The largely Christian organized rally was a saturnalia of conspiracy theories, fantasies, utopian dreams, apocalyptic distractions and escapisms. If you are looking for any definition of Christian Realism, it's the opposite of this Jericho jamboree. Neither St. Augustine nor Reinhold Niebuhr would’ve been welcome on its podium
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