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As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

…President Joe Biden’s victory in November’s presidential election, the advocacy organization American Atheists released its State of the Secular States report, detailing the complex state-level legislative landscape on church-state separation issues for 2020 and laying out areas of concern for 2021. Sensibly framed in terms of promoting religious equality for all—including the nonreligious—the annual report, which American Atheists first issued in…

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‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

…rs have been anticipating a revolution against the federal government for decades. Participants’ aim is to set up a collective salvation on earth for white people who regard themselves as the true “natives” of the land that is now the United States. In the 1990s, participants in this white supremacist movement that had no name, which I have termed the Euro-American Nativist Millennial Movement, were waiting and preparing to carry out a “Second Ame…

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2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism

…roduction of President Biden, the NPB remains decidedly Christian. In his decades of research into The Family, author and journalist Jeff Sharlet observed how this secretive organization behind the NPB promotes a “specific vision of Jesus as the ideal ‘strongman’ [that] governs their political theology,” adding that they “found, in strongman-sympathetic Trump, an ideal vessel for their beliefs.” As reported by The Young Turks, while Trump may be a…

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‘Theological Porn’: The Most Egregious Religious Idea of 2021 is a Tie

…n some unfathomable context it’s acceptable to force people to give birth because after nine months of gestation the baby can be dropped off at the neighborhood fire station for someone else to raise. The people in this scenario (to Justice Barrett and her ilk they’re always seen as women) are considered to be containers of reproduction. The babies are disregarded as if the experience of separation is not traumatic and will not echo in their psych…

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After Michael Jerryson (1974-2021) Nobody Will Ever Look at Buddhism the Same Way

…akes clear that he is not out to trash the tradition. Quite the opposite. Because Jerryson lived and worked with Buddhists in Mongolia, Thailand, and elsewhere, he felt a kinship with the Buddhist community and an admiration for its tradition. But Jerryson was also a scholar with enormous intellectual curiosity. As he explained in a 2010 essay in Religion Dispatches (later republished in the Utne Reader), “Monks with Guns: Discovering Buddhist Vio…

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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

…a decisive issue for white evangelical voters. As a young evangelical, it became the single issue that determined my vote: The few times I garnered the courage to admit my uncertainty to other ministers they looked at me in disbelief. Despite my reasoning that the war in Afghanistan was leading to the deaths of innocent people and that more support for the poor, for single parents, and for education all seemed to align with Jesus’ message, my spir…

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Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

…latter was a feature of the far right of the anti-abortion movement for a decade before the Southern Baptist Convention surprised the world by making it policy at their June 2021 convention. The resolution explicitly called for “abolition” and rejected “any position that allows for any exceptions to the legal protection of our preborn neighbors.” In recent years, such legislation has been introduced in 6 states, including Oklahoma where conservati…

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Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

…the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became even more of a secret. When RD first reported on Project Blitz in April 2018 the website featured their annual state legislative playbook of model bills and talking points. They also named the members of the State Legislative Prayer Caucuses that drew on the model bills for their own legislation. But in the face of public scrutiny, RD’s revelation of a second playbook…

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Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

…extremists are present in all parts and areas of society. To believe that academic credentials or a certain societal standing makes a person impervious to radicalisation is a fatal misconception and just plain wrong. We have to understand that right-wing extremism is part of society and emerges from all of its parts.” Parallels to January 6th are visible here as well where the rioters were older and from a higher social class than most right-wing…

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Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators

…cerns regarding a sexual abuse allegation.” The other five were voted out because “having a female… functioning in the office of pastor” indicates they they “[do] not closely identify with the Convention’s adopted statement of faith.”* The decision, in some ways, was no shock: the SBC updated its official statement of faith in 2000 to include its denomination-wide prohibition on female pastors. Since then, the denomination has repeatedly doubled d…

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