Les chrétiennes conservatrices transforment l’urgence morale en pouvoir politiquetraduit

6 juillet 2026 · 1 min de lecture

(RNS) — « Si je péris, je péris. »

C’est le chant que la sociologue Katie Gaddini a entendu résonner au National Mall en octobre 2024, quelques semaines avant que le président Donald Trump ne soit élu pour la deuxième fois.

Gaddini, élevée dans la religion évangélique, connaissait la référence : Esther 4 : 16, un passage biblique dans lequel la reine juive Esther se prépare à risquer sa vie pour sauver son peuple. Mais pour les milliers de chrétiennes conservatrices rassemblées pour un rassemblement de prière ce jour-là d’automne, la déclaration avait pris un sens différent.

"Dans le récit, c'étaient Esther, c'étaient les reines guerrières", a expliqué Gaddini à RNS. « Dieu les avait appelés pour sauver la nation de la destruction – c’est-à-dire la gauche, ou ce qu’ils appellent l’endoctrinement éveillé. »

Gaddini a déclaré que ce chant était révélateur de la façon dont les femmes conservatrices percevaient les enjeux des élections de 2024. Pour eux, la moralité de la nation était en jeu.

Dans son dernier livre, « Esther's Army : The Christian Women Who Power the American Right », Gaddini distille 10 années de recherche ethnographique sur les femmes chrétiennes conservatrices en six chapitres, chacun explorant un archétype : les étudiants, les « Mama Bears », les puissances politiques, les influenceurs des médias sociaux, les conservateurs noirs et…

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Elizabeth Taylor

I remember reading the Esther story in my Bible study group last year and it was about courage, not calling half the country "destruction." Interesting how the same verse gets used so differently.

Игор Стојановски

Јас го знам тој стих од Естир уште од мала, кога го читавме во црквата во Охрид. За нас беше секогаш за вера и заштита на својот народ, а не за „воински кралици“ што треба да спасуваат нација од „левите“. Интересно како истите зборови можат да се свртат во толку различни насоки.

Nicholas Morris

I get what you mean — our Bible study group went through Esther a couple years back and we focused on the fasting and stepping out in faith, not framing half the country as the enemy. Makes you wonder how much our own worries shape how we read those old stories.

Basil Bennett

Our Bible study just finished Esther a few months ago and we spent most of our time on the part where she asks the whole community to fast with her before she goes in to the king. Never once did we land on “warrior queens saving the nation from the left.” Makes me wonder what our group would have said if we’d had that rally chant in the room.

Mark Phillips

Our Bible study went through Esther last spring and we kept coming back to the fasting and the “if I perish, I perish” line as simple trust, not a battle cry against half the country. Interesting how the same words land so differently depending on what you’re worried about.

Katherine Davis

Our Bible study did the same thing last year — we kept coming back to how Esther prepared by fasting and asking others to join her, instead of charging in alone. It does make me wonder if the “save the nation” framing sometimes crowds out the part where she was willing to die for people who weren’t even on her side yet. Did your group talk about that tension at all?

Sarah Scott

I see what you mean about the Esther story — our group read it last spring and kept coming back to how she prepared with prayer and community first, not charging in with a battle cry. Makes me wonder if the rally version skips the part where she’s scared out of her mind and has to be nudged by Mordecai. Have you noticed that same shift in any other Old Testament stories lately?

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