'Christ is King' under siege: Evangelicals warn phrase is being weaponized by hate groups

Leaders of a prominent research institute focused on identifying and predicting trends in misinformation declared evangelical leaders are united in reclaiming the phrase Christ is King from far-right and far-left entities seeking to twist its meaning The Structure Contagion Research Institute NCRI at Rutgers which in the past few days published studies showing how DEI training can fuel hostility and how political assassinations are gaining aid online was early in scientifically measuring the trend of online extremists hijacking the phrase Christ is King We were looking at a lot of different kinds of heated languages and arguments and this sort of look online for threat-actors in general the authors of a new March overview recounted Fox News Digital We noted that prevalence of the use of the term and a mismatch of the actors that were using it that just didn't make any sense And we want to understand like what is the origin of this Where did it come from VANCE SAYS JESUS IS KING AT WISCONSIN RALLYActors like Nick Fuentes a far-right Holocaust denier and podcaster were co-opting Christ the King to unify behind what they considered their righteous political mission authors of the assessment mentioned The institute revealed Christ the King resurged with Pope Pius XI's institution of The Feast of Christ the King in response to nationalist and Communist ideologies undermining Christianity s role in the West Instead of being the spiritual guide the phrase has been co-opted by both human and bot actors to rally behind ideals counter to Judeo-Christianity What was really fascinating is that the NCRI folks were in real-time tracking the bot activity declared Rev Johnnie Moore a former commissioner for the U S Commission on International Religious Freedom The question was how much of this vicious virulent antisemitism that emerged when we published the overview were these bot-nets It was north of of all the activity were these antisemitic bot-networks latching onto Christ is King Canadian psychologist-commentator Dr Jordan Peterson who co-authored the overview reported after the analysis was distributed in March the narcissists hedonists and psychopaths occupy the fringes wherever they obtain power A nd using God s name attempt to subvert the power of the divine to their own devices A warning not everyone who says Lord Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING SERVES AS INVITATION TO OPEN WIDE THE DOORS TO OUR HEART TO GOD SAYS PRIESTThe review unveiled evidence of mass manipulation tactics and beginning in more than of engagements were driven by extremist influencers like Fuentes and kickboxer-turned-commentator Andrew Tate Moore noted Thursday that in addition to NCRI s findings evidence also surfaced after antisemitic protests exploded in New York and Los Angeles that there were shared social engagement connections to the Chinese Communist Party It s quite clear that people are trying to steal this phrase from us and we're saying no it's a Christian phrase Moore mentioned You sure as anything can't use it to spread hate against Jews Moore who had just left the White House s Easter Dinner where he reported the administration also welcomed religion back to the sociopolitical fore added that no matter how hard fringe elements try to co-opt Judeo-Christian slogans the bloc is a force to be reckoned with CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHe added that those on the far-right who believe their antisemitic tenets with a Christian-like righteousness often forget there s no Christianity without Judaism They re losing their battle to Christianize antisemitism because there's just a sheer amount of Evangelicals in every country we're all pro-Israel Evangelical leader Robert Stearns reported that Christians must not let extremists hijack what belongs to God Christ is King is a cry of worship not war Meanwhile Princeton jurisprudence professor Robby George communicated Fox News Digital that when you hear the phrase as a Christian the proper response is Amen But if you hear someone say the same words as an antisemitic taunt the correct reply is I stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters ' Don't be played the Catholic influencer stated What will happen at Easter is there will be countless millions of Christians all around the world that will be saying these words and they only mean one thing and it will drown out all of these people trying to steal our words to spread their hate Moore added