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A yellow banner that reads JESUS SAVES stands out in the pro-Trump mob outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Updated on Friday at 3:02 p.m.
As the pro-Trump mob stormed up the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, a big yellow banner stood out among the blue Trump flags carried high by the throng: JESUS SAVES. Nearby was another, with an even stranger message JESUS 2020 as if the Lord himself had been a candidate in the disputed election.
Christian nationalism was one of the underlying themes of the nearly all-white insurrection at the Capitol, which also featured symbols of the Confederacy. For Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, the event represented an unholy amalgamation of white supremacy and Christianity.
Updated on Friday at 3:02 p.m. As the pro-Trump mob stormed up the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, a big yellow banner stood out among the blue