"Trump & The Maga Movement as Anti-Christ" is both a theological exploration and a call to action for all those concerned about the future
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Matthew Fox, a spiritual theologian and author of over 40 books, has released his latest project in order to help keep Trump out of the White House in the 2024 election. The book invokes the ancient and biblical archetype of the antichrist as an "epitome for evil" and recognizes this as Christian nationalism, climate change denial, the "compulsion to control women's bodies" and the "effort to kill democracy."
In "Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election," Fox names 18 elements of the MAGA movement that he considers to "carry antichrist energy" including the "Big Lie," Project 2025, and the blasphemy of Trump's "God Bless the U.S.A. Bible." Fox wrote the book with a wide audience in mind, and hopes it is embraced by voters concerned with spirituality, politics climate change and social justice.
"Previously, the right wing employed apocalyptic language like "the antichrist," said Fox, "but this book turns the tables on the right wing and fundamentalists and employs the archetype as a name for evil as found in faux Christianity like Christian nationalism and the cult of Trump."
While visiting a medieval cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, Fox stood before a fresco by Luca Signorelli entitled "The Preaching of the Antichrist." On seeing it, his response was, "it feels like Donald Trump." Fox relates the story of how Sigmund Freud was so taken by this fresco that he returned to study it three times. By including Freud, no friend of religion, who was also profoundly affected by the same early 16th century fresco, Fox hopes to incorporate secular thinkers and humanists in his call to arms. The book includes ten paintings, including Signorelli's and also that of St. Hildegard of Bingen, who painted the antichrist in the 12th century and associated it with "greed that tears institutions to pieces."
"The purpose of the book is to help keep Trump out of the White House," said Fox. "Voters need to truly see the corruption of right-wing politics in America that saw the January 6 effort to kill a fair election through violence urged on by a sitting president, now running for president again, plus the corruption of a once-supreme court and the far-right religious theocrats who made it what it is."
"Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election"
By Matthew Fox
ISBN: 9781663265265 (softcover); 9781663265272 (electronic)
Available at MatthewFox.org, iUniverse, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the author
Matthew Fox, an Episcopal priest, is author of 43 books on culture and spirituality including Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, A Spirituality Named Compassion, and The Reinvention of Work. His honors include the Abbey Courage of Conscience Peace Award (other recipients include the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks and Maya Angelou), the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award from Morehouse College, Atlanta, the Tikkun Ethics Award and the International Sufi Humanities Award. To learn more, please visit http://www.matthewfox.org.
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