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      Please Stop Using Islam to Critique the Abortion Ban: It Only Excuses the Very Christian, Very White Roots of Anti-Choice Movements
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      ‘Bad Faith’ Reveals This isn’t First Rodeo for Racism and Religious Right
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      A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine
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      Strange Bedfellows: The American Far-Right and Today’s Jihad Do Have Something in Common — Just Not What You Think
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      The Biggest Lesson Learned From the US War in Afghanistan is How Little We’ve Learned
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    • As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem
      As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem
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      UPDATED: Turning Catholic School’s Anti-Mask Theology Into a Faith Argument is Just Fine With Religious Right (Even if it is Based on Garbage Theology)
    • Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’
      Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’
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      Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause
    • The Gutting of ‘Roe’ isn’t About Religion, it’s a Product of White Terror
      The Gutting of ‘Roe’ isn’t About Religion, it’s a Product of White Terror
    • The New York Times Adds a ‘Kinder,’ ‘Gentler’ Anti-Gay Authoritarian Christian to its Roster
      The New York Times Adds a ‘Kinder,’ ‘Gentler’ Anti-Gay Authoritarian Christian to its Roster
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    • The Evangelical Abortion Myth: An Excerpt from ‘Bad Faith’
      The Evangelical Abortion Myth: An Excerpt from ‘Bad Faith’
    • ‘Bad Faith’ Reveals This isn’t First Rodeo for Racism and Religious Right
      ‘Bad Faith’ Reveals This isn’t First Rodeo for Racism and Religious Right
    • A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture
      A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture

Richard Pierard

Richard Pierard, professor emeritus of history from Indiana State University, was a Fulbright professor at the University of Frankfurt in 1984–85, and the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1989–90. He is the author of The Unequal Yoke: Evangelical Christianity and Political Conservatism.

Politics/LawDecember 10, 2012

Four Changes Evangelicals Must Make

By Richard Pierard

In the process of doing all they could to defeat Obama, self-proclaimed and media-designated evangelicals discredited their message and reduced it to a mere political gospel.

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