{"id":700528,"date":"2021-08-30T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700528"},"modified":"2021-08-30T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:06:04","slug":"christian-evangelicals-are-americas-taliban-actors-journalists-equate-american-christians-to-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christian-evangelicals-are-americas-taliban-actors-journalists-equate-american-christians-to-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Christian Evangelicals Are America\u2019s Taliban\u2019: Actors, Journalists Equate American Christians To The Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristian-evangelicals-are-americas-taliban-actors-journalists-equate-american-christians-to-the-taliban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700528&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234688073-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>MSNBC host Joy Reid stirred up controversy earlier this week when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joy-reid-retweets-claim-that-republicans-are-more-aligned-with-taliban-than-with-democrats\">compared<\/a> Christian conservatives to the Taliban. But Reid is hardly the only public figure on the left making that analogy.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Tim Russ, best known for playing Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on the sci-fi series \u201cStar Trek: Voyager\u201d and Principal Franklin on Disney\u2019s \u201ciCarly,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timruss2\/status\/1427198692554014726?s=20\">tweeted<\/a> Monday that, \u201cThe Taliban are as fanatical about their beliefs and culture as the millions of people right here in the U.S. who believe in religion, conspiracy theories, and alternate reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Russ has disparaged Americans of faith generally or Christians specifically. The comic book news site <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2021\/08\/18\/star-trek-voyager-actor-tim-russ-claims-americans-who-believe-in-religion-are-just-as-fanatical-as-the-taliban\/\">Bounding into Comics<\/a>, reprinted several past anti-Christian comments from Russ, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u201c[The U.S.] already has Sharia law\u2026. Christian Sharia Law. There is no difference.&nbsp; One religion forcing their beliefs and way of life on everyone else, which is against the 1st Amendment.&nbsp; That <\/em><em>is exactly the same thing.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Don\u2019t know who you are, but you need to get down off your high holy \u201cChristian\u201d high horse about the \u201cunborn.\u201d You fanatics don\u2019t give a damn about anybody AFTER they\u2019re born, never have and never will. And quit defending the maniac in the WH for God sakes.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Author and freelance journalist Feminista Jones, who has contributed to outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, and Vox, has made similar inferences, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FeministaJones\/status\/1427594133993148418?s=20\">saying<\/a> Thursday, \u201cAlways funny to me when [Christians] pretend their religion is somehow less oppressive of women than Islam [laughing my a** off].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When someone replied that they would pray for Jones, she mockingly responded by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FeministaJones\/status\/1428061430507520012?s=20\">posting<\/a> an image of a crying child holding a wooden cross.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, John Max Smith \u2014 son of famed British author Harry Leslie Smith, and a writer in his own right who has been published in Canada\u2019s Globe and Mail and the U.K.\u2019s Independent \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harryslaststand\/status\/1427676314895519755?s=20\">said<\/a>, \u201cMake no mistake; Christian evangelicals are America\u2019s #taliban and [wield] as much power too in their society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t just atheists and the actively anti-religious equating Christians to the Islamic terror group.<\/p>\n<p>Duke University theology professor Curtis Freeman is the director of the school\u2019s Baptist House of Studies and has written for outlets like the Raleigh News and Observer and the Houston Chronicle, along with authoring several books on Christianity and the Baptist denomination. He\u2019s also been cited as a religious expert by USA Today and CNN. On Tuesday he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesrwoodtheo1\/status\/1428149903491059721?s=20\">argued<\/a>, \u201cThe Taliban allow no liberty of conscience. They are like #ChristianNationalists and other American Christian fundamentalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Freeman has taken even sharper aim at other members of his own faith. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/which-god-is-served-at-duke-divinity\/\">The American Conservative<\/a> reported, in March, he claimed, \u201cEvangelical Christianity is the greatest threat to human existence today. It must be laid waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Wheaton College\u2019s 2016 analysis, around 90-100 million Americans qualify as Evangelicals.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving pushback from fellow Christians, Freeman deleted both his comments.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time that the Taliban is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/afghan-woman-killed-for-not-wearing-burqa-as-taliban-make-new-claims-to-protect-womens-rights\">killing<\/a> women for not wearing burqas and opening fire on civilians, the other commenters have, so far, let their comparisons stand.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one eof America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC host Joy Reid stirred up controversy earlier this week when she compared Christian conservatives to the Taliban. 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