Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Christian Nationalists Are Opening Private Schools. Taxpayers Are Funding Them. – Mother Jones

A prerequisite for students and their families to attend some of the schools that currently receive voucher money is that they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. In March, the education blog Notes from the Chalkboard highlighted one such school. Students attending North Carolina's Daniel Christian Academy, are trained to "enter the Seven Mountains of Influence," a main tenet of a Christian Nationalist movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation. Its adherents believe that the faithful are called to seek Christian control of the "seven mountains" of society: family, education, media, government, business, arts & entertainment, and religion. Many New Apostolic Reformation followers believe that waging "spiritual warfare" is justified in achieving these goals, though Daniel Christian Academy specifies that its endorsement of the Seven Mountains Mandate "in no way includes violence or manipulation at any level."…

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