Purity Culture is Also About National Purity: Anti-Asian Hate and Purity Culture [Audio]
The three and a half minute clip below, exclusive to RD, is from Bradley Onishi’s…
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Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President
Barr’s war on secularism and Pompeo’s end-times infused diplomacy are windows into why Trump’s evangelical supporters will not turn on him because of his foreign policy in Turkey, much less his phone call with Ukraine.
Read MoreAt CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed
When you center abortion at the cost of all other issues, you center the unborn whose lives are supposedly at stake. The unborn become angels who must be protected at all costs, which means the rest of us—the born and bodied—are of secondary concern at best.
Read MoreGiuliani’s ‘Truth Isn’t Truth’ Is the Perfect Slogan for Trump’s Nostalgia Politics
Trump’s nostalgia politics recalls a time that didn’t exist to create a safe space for supporters to inhabit a world they want to exist.
Read MoreDehumanizing Huckabee Tweet Another Echo of Dangerous Tribalism
There is a direct line from tribal epistemology to dehumanization that can blind even those religious people who claim that “God is love.”
Read MoreSessions Casts Cruel Immigration Policy as Part of God’s Plan
To the administration’s creeping authoritarianism let’s add theocracy.
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Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians
Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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