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      White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
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      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
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    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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      What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
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    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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Bradley Onishi

Bradley B. Onishi, PhD is faculty at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of the forthcoming book Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism - And What Comes Next (Broadleaf 2023) and the co-host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast.

(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Racial Justice, RD Media, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 18, 2021

Purity Culture is Also About National Purity: Anti-Asian Hate and Purity Culture [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

The three and a half minute clip below, exclusive to RD, is from Bradley Onishi’s…

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Archive, History/Theology, Politics/LawOctober 21, 2019

Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

By Bradley Onishi

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.

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Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 6, 2019

At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

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.

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OMFG, Politics/LawAugust 21, 2018

Giuliani’s ‘Truth Isn’t Truth’ Is the Perfect Slogan for Trump’s Nostalgia Politics

By Bradley Onishi

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.

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OMFGJune 23, 2018

Dehumanizing Huckabee Tweet Another Echo of Dangerous Tribalism

By Bradley Onishi

There is a direct line from tribal epistemology to dehumanization that can blind even those religious people who claim that “God is love.”

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OMFGJune 15, 2018

Sessions Casts Cruel Immigration Policy as Part of God’s Plan

By Bradley Onishi

To the administration’s creeping authoritarianism let’s add theocracy.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Christian Nationalism, Politics/Law, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 5, 2018

Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians

By Bradley Onishi

Abortion is murder.  That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…

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