“My sense is [Stone] has recognized how important this sector of Christianity is for the ongoing radicalized Trump base,” said a religion scholar. “He's been cultivating his own ability to speak to that world...in hopes of him having some sway with it.”
Roger Stone greets people before former U.S. President Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio take the stage to headline a rally at the Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition on November 6, 2022 in Miami, Florida.
Matthew D. Taylor has studied the world of “independent charismatic” evangelicals, the specific stream of Christianity that Stone and Flynn are catering to with their political and religious rhetoric. Taylor is the Protestant scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, and ison these believers and their ties to the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Taylor believes that Stone and Flynn are “looking to have much more direct influence in that world, not mediated by pastors and prophets and rabbis but by their own speaking of charismatic language.” “My sense is [Stone] has recognized how important this sector of Christianity is for the ongoing radicalized Trump base,” Taylor told Yahoo News. “I think he's been cultivating his own ability to speak to that world and his own credibility in it, in hopes of him having some sway with it.”
Stone has long been interested in bypassing traditional media to reach people directly. Taylor’s theory is that he is trying to go around established authorities inside the Charismatic evangelical world as well to gain more influence. Stone did not respond to a request for comment.Attendees pray together before President Donald Trump addresses the crowd at the King Jesus International Ministry during a"Evangelicals for Trump" rally in Miami, FL on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020.
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