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Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence

By Sara Kamali

In the wake of the devastating January 6th attack on the Capitol, White nationalist domestic terrorism, once relegated to the political extreme, is now mainstream. Under the guise of stopping the spurious ‘steal’ of the 2020 presidential election, individuals and groups subscribing to a combination of an antigovernment mindset, racism, belief in one of the many racist theologies based on White supremacy, and a conspiratorial worldview convulsed t…

Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

By Christopher Douglas

…nal Republicans voting against ratification of the results, leading to the January 6th insurrection. The disagreement among Republicans seems not so much between Republicans who see Democratic victories as legitimate and those who do not, but, as Adam Serwer argues, between Republicans who think violence might be necessary to hold power and those who prefer institutional malfeasance. These developments go well beyond Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann’…

If We Don’t Counter Far-Right Christianity, 1/6 Will Just Be the Beginning

By Serene Jones

…istian nationalism spewed in right-wing pulpits and embraced by increasing numbers of people, we need faith leaders to step up and work rigorously to reverse the damage of this warped ideology. If we don’t, January 6th will only be the beginning. This fusion of theology and white supremacy has a long history. Faith leaders have previously used Christianity to justify slavery, colonialism, and other brutal acts of violence. But with the more recent…

Rep. Kinzinger Rejects Judgmental Family Letter But He’s No Cure for Evangelical GOP Authoritarianism

By Chrissy Stroop

…ories, in conjunction with his efforts to “save” the Republican Party. The January 29 profile of Kinzinger is of a piece with commentary by “respectable” evangelicals published throughout the election cycle in CT and elsewhere that essentially begs evangelicals to give up conspiracy theories like QAnon. What such prominent evangelicals who want to have their cake and eat it too fail to recognize, of course, is that their dogmatic insistence on, fo…

As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?

By John Stoehr

…ot just scholars pointing this out—but when everyone sees it and feels it. January 6 was a moment like that. Many historians have observed that the Republican Party had been in the business of rejecting democratic ideals since the passage of the Civil Rights Acts in the 1960s. They were unwilling to share democracy with people they deemed were less than them. Watergate was part of this. The 2000 election and the 2016 election were other watershed…

One Year After 1/6, Media Still Refuse to Recognize Authoritarian Christianity

By Chrissy Stroop

…es of America’s epidemic of political and religious violence, of which the January 6 insurrection is the most disturbing expression to date. To be sure, many commentators have noted the prevalence of Christian prayers, symbols, songs, and rhetoric in the events of January 6, which took place several weeks after a “Jericho March” that involved many of the same actors invoking the notion of divinely-ordained conquest in their efforts to “stop the st…

A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine

By Cristina Rosetti

…Abramović’s controversial Spirit Cooking art installation. By the time the January 6 insurrection flashed across my television screen, I’d seen countless Q drops with catchy one-liners to explain their importance. However, as time passed, the content of the conspiracies became increasingly religious (with strong antisemitic undertones) and moved beyond the standard theories espoused by Q supporters. “Q said it would happen. Special investigation,…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…fact that the end has yet to happen. The dichotomy matters. At the end of January, emails flooded my inbox with links to articles that detailed the story of the Strack family. I’m currently teaching a course called “From Revelation to ‘The Walking Dead’: Apocalypse Now and Then,” and earlier this semester I encouraged students to send me articles, videos, advertisements, movie trailers—anything that they that had to do with our topic: the end of…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…f methods and instruments such as the mass media and seminars, involving a number of celebrated figures and other possible means. The objective is to promote and solidify homosexuality. Al-Azhar, in a previous statement, reiterated that the amoral and satanic propaganda launched by these various, vicious, parties has the purpose of destroying the human moral order respected by all religions and schools, because this moral order is in line with hum…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Ivory Coast, but there are no legal protections for sexual minorities. In January 2014, a mob ransacked the Abidjan headquarters of the country’s most prominent gay rights organization. India: Court rejects celebrity petition on challenge to criminal sodomy law On Wednesday the Supreme Court refused to reconsider the constitutionality of a colonial-era law criminalizing homosexuality; a petition had been filed by a number of prominent gay individ…