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A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…the way sexual predators build trust and emotional connections with potential child victims to manipulate, exploit, and abuse them. Because the conspiracy theory has at its core this presumed “abuse” of innocent children and a moral urgency to protect them, it has helped produce countless protests. In the context of this moral panic, the term “grooming” is misused and applied broadly to any efforts to teach children about LGBTQ+ identities, gender…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…on, depending on how you look at it) David Azerrad, a Research Fellow at Hillsdale College, delivered an unabashedly White nationalist and male supremacist speech, for which he received one of the only standing ovations at the conference. Declaring that “the regime today is anti-White anti-male and anti-Christian,” Azerrad condemned the “browning of America,” the “intentional demographic transformation of America into a majority-minority country…

Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24

By Thomas Lecaque

…pporters to “protest, take our nation back!”—Trump will host his first formal rally of the 2024 presidential campaign season at the Waco Regional Airport. The location is, in theory, all about the positive Trump vibes in Texas. As his campaign staff wrote, “It is undisputed that Texas is Trump Country after electing 37 Trump Endorsed Candidates and recent polling among Texas primary voters.” Indeed, Waco boasts the largest Baptist university in th…

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…the other go-to explanation has been that he’s psychotic and that his mental illness was exacerbated by drug use and homelessness. He was apparently communicating with an entity he identified as a fairy. Several of his blog posts are images of what appear to be fairies, posted without comment. Such strange beliefs that transgress political dichotomies and seem delusional are familiar terrain in the study of religion. Screenshot of Elon Musk’s now…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…next to one another on these issues as if each were just different but equally valid viewpoints on the political spectrum—actively obscuring that one of the two major American parties now openly subscribes to white nationalist ideology. There are plenty of examples of this false equivalency. A New York Times article from October 2021 states: “Republicans are using fears of critical race theory to drive school board recalls and energize conservati…

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

…to Trump’s reign, but a manifesto of resistance for what came next: an extralegal assault on U.S. democracy from opponents who deem fraudulent its political legacy. We are now living in the book’s aforementioned Age of Insurrection, and the years discussed in the book are simply a prelude. While Neiwert analyzes their impact, he also catalogues them in a narrative framework, acting as our memory by documenting stories that would be unbelievable if…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…l costs of lockdowns are mourned—increased rates of domestic violence, mental illness, small business closure—while denying that those who support public health measures have suffered at all because they are “privileged,” living in suburbs, and unaware of the government tyranny perpetuated under the guise of these measures. As with the inclusion of a concentration camp survivor in the Truth Over Fear Summit, the “privileged” are associated with th…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…ple who tend to become adult converts—addicts, alcoholics, people with mental health issues, people going through divorce—it doesn’t surprise me at all. I think it’s quite insidious, and it’s an amazing use of technology, but I come from the kind of churches for which this just seems like the logical next step. These kinds of churches always seemed to have what I would call an unhealthy obsession with growing their numbers. So maybe you could spea…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…tedly obscure issue of how people have tried to find the terrestrial biblical paradise. Reminiscent of the ethos of sites like Lapham’s Quarterly, Atlas Obscura, and The Public Domain Review, Wilensky-Lanford’s book is a veritable wonder-cabinet of the places and personages surrounding the historical question of Eden. “Lo and behold,” she writes, “the Garden of Eden had been found in Iraq, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, and Ohio; at the North Pole;…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…s regarded as an apostle or belongs to an apostolic network is not necessarily always part of the most Wagnerian segment of the NAR. The fact that the term “apostolic” is omitted from the name of a network means that reporters will have to uncover who is involved and leading it. Commissioned apostles Like leaders in traditional denominations, many important apostles were not among the much better and earlier known figures, and were commissioned mu…