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Obama’s Supposed “Religion Dilemma” and American Exceptionalism

By Sarah Posner

…ust as Christian and just as American as the domineering narratives of the right. That Galston would fret over Democrats challenging the right’s American exceptionalism narrative is deeply troubling. As I’ve reported recently, conservatives, spurred by the ahistorical renderings of Newt Gingrich and others, wrap the exceptionalism narrative into a pat us-versus-them package: that Obama doesn’t understand the divine roots of the American founding,…

‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro Lost — But Anti-Democratic Movements Seldom Accept Electoral Defeat

By Craig Johnson

…oks. Bolsonaro’s rhetoric and policies stem directly from the same font of right-wing Christianity that has plagued the US for decades. This has meant that for the last four years Brazil has been governed by a chaotic version of its most conservative and right-wing sectors. Both Trump’s and Bolsonaro’s electoral bases are whiter than their countries as a whole. Both are disproportionately armed. And both are disproportionately members of conservat…

The Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’

By Hollis Phelps

…some 40 years ago is now taking shape, “coalescing in support of immigrant rights, universal healthcare, LBGTQ rights and racial justice.” Although the “religious left” has more of an interfaith emphasis, the majority of this relatively loose coalition of religious institutions and organizations remain Christian. That’s not surprising, given that some 70% of Americans continue to identify as Christian, in one shape or another. Nevertheless, it als…

What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…t on Christian Nationalism.” If faith leaders are “grappling” with the far-right in their midst, then they can’t be complicit, right? And surely there aren’t faith leaders who are fomenting Christian nationalism? (To be clear, yes, yes there are.) To be sure, the framing here tacitly admits that there are extremist churchgoers, but by the same token it absolves the leaders of any guilt. Those assumptions, at least, are the direction in which the h…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…rals and progressives fight just as hard for his nominees as the religious right has fought for Reagan and Bush I & II’s nominees? Will the religious right wage an all-out war against each and every nominee, or will it hold its fire (if not its rhetoric) for the big battles; nominees to the US Supreme Court? Stay tuned. ++++++++++ Blackwater’s Eric Prince Steps Down “The company formerly known as Blackwater [Worldwide, and before that Blackwater U…

‘Son Worry’ and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Purity’ Movement

By Patricia Miller

…ump, Jr., said, “I’ve got boys, I’ve got girls. When I see what’s going on right now, it’s scary,” referring to his five young children. When asked which of his children he is most worried about, he said, “Right now, I’d say my sons.” Soon, the Washington Post was reporting in a front page article: “Male fury and fear rises in GOP in defense of Kavanaugh,” as Republican men contemplated the horror of a wave of “false accusers who are biased agains…

What Happens If the Bible Is the “Owner’s Manual For Life”

By Sarah Posner

…ious right doesn’t like the other stuff it does, but because the religious right model is that God’s will should guide your reproduction. As the religious right heroine Michelle Duggar says, “Our motto is obey first, understand later.” Now the GOP and its religious right allies might argue that Planned Parenthood shouldn’t be funded because it provides abortions, therefore it shouldn’t be supported in its other services, either. Mike Pence claims…

White Conservative Christian America Not Going Down Without a Fight

By Paul Harvey

…that drafters of the platform—featuring co-chair Mary Fallin (current hard-right governor of Oklahoma recently quoted as believing that Trump was campaigning as a “racial healer”), and including the repeatedly discredited pseudo-historian David Barton and hard-right culture warrior Tony Perkins—is a grab-bag of wish lists from cultural conservatives, white cultural nationalists, and “government is the problem” supply-siders. The platform, in fact,…

A Recent Local Controversy Reveals the Theocratic Heart of ‘Project Blitz’

By Frederick Clarkson

…underappreciated stories of our time: the politics of Dominionism, which a number of scholars have described as the driving ideology of the white evangelical protestant wing of the Christian right. Christian nationalism, the idea that America was founded as a Christian nation, and that this must somehow be restored, was once little appreciated outside the Christian right and a relative handful of dedicated scholars and journalists. But it has beco…

Shari’ah Website a Right Wing Fake

By Hussein Rashid

…ducation and Action Center (MEAC) “a fake website about Muslims created by right-wing bloggers confirming everything right-wing bloggers believe about Muslims.” Basically, it means that the entire shari’ah conspiracy industry is the Islamphobic constituency from beginning to end. It’s so complete that Pam Gellar was taken in by the ruse. Every attack against the shari’ah complex has been against an organization that is run by non-Muslims in order…