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The Far-Right Embrace of the Knights Templar isn’t Just About Faith, Tradition or History — It’s About Hate

By Thomas Lecaque

…ed the language of Breivik’s manifesto and covered his weapons with names, dates and rhetoric of white supremacy and Christian holy war. There is, of course, a very real difference between a Templar hoodie and a mass murder. But the proliferation of holy war rhetoric, imagery, and ideology should worry us, even as it crosses and breaks down theological divides and denominational boundaries. It isn’t just a motivating factor or an amping up of supp…

Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…own decline: late Victorian Britain. While American Christian nationalism dates back to the pilgrims, my series examines how features of today’s God-and-country ideology owe a particular debt to the obsessions that transfixed the popular culture of Britain in the 1890s: the supposed “hordes” of immigrants diluting the nation’s racial stock; melancholy over the putative “weakness” of a once-great nation; panic over non-straight public expressions…

Hamburg Shooter’s Manifesto Reveals the Complexity of the Influence of Far-Right Ideologies

By Annika Brockschmidt

…in the Kingdom Hall, or help with the sound system (I wanted to be a microphone carrier when I was little and was crushed when told girls couldn’t do that)… Growing up, it was taught and understood that married women did not hold control over their own bodies… Women are ‘lesser’—and that belief and feeling permeates everything the JW’s teach and believe and do.” Religion scholar Bradley Onishi agrees, noting, “There are theological echoes there w…

‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…iddle-aged White woman named Janice, caped in a Trump flag, tells Paul. It dates back to her student-teacher days, when her teacher “taught” her “everything about Trump.” Now, she says, she’s at a Las Vegas charter school where she, too, passes on Trump’s wisdom, and teaches the youth “actual” “civil disobedience,” the “pro-American” kind vs. the “communist” variety preached in government schools. It sounds alarming, but Janice’s top priority is c…

Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’

By Peter Laarman

…ccommodated slaveholding and reinforced patriarchy long past their sell-by dates. He exposes their timidity and dishonesty. He lays out the whole story in a brisk and entertaining way. The infidels of primary interest, profiled by Stewart in a whole new light, are renegade Unitarian minister Theodore Parker and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass, who greatly respected each other. These two were connected, in turn, to infidel-in-chief Abraham L…

You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

By Daniel Schultz

…rrow line. The specific bit about God being removed from America’s schools dates back to Engel v. Vitale, the 1962 Supreme Court decision barring mandated prayer in public schools. It might as well be as old as Moses, given what a commonplace it is for right-wing Christians. The rest of it is a chestnut of its own. We ought to just be grateful that Lindell isn’t enforcing coronavirus rectitude with a hatchet. (Carrie Nation was also an unabashed s…

Skepticism Over O’Donnell’s Dabbling in Witchcraft

By John W. Morehead

…these things up. I know what they told me they do.” Then, “One of my first dates with a Witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there was a little blood there and stuff like that.” Given O’Donnell’s conservative evangelical background I must say that I’m skeptical of her claims for several reasons. First, she refers to “dabbling” in Witchcraft, a term that is found in popular evangelical literature on the occult as an alleged c…

The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…presidential practice of ending addresses with “God bless America,” which dates to Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Christian nationalists seize on fearful times, including the Red Scare of the 1950s when In God We Trust became the national motto, to impose their religion. These religious expressions often wipe out earlier, unifying sentiments, such as “one nation, indivisible” and E pluribus unum, from many, one. There is a perverse irony in three men…

The Great Disappointment: When the World Fails to End on Schedule

By Randall Balmer

…history, all of this sounds eerily familiar—right down to the revision of dates. American history is littered with predictions about the end of the world. When I was writing my chapter on Billy Graham’s visit to Central Park in September 1991 for Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, a group of Korean evangelicals were excitedly proclaiming the end of the world on October 28, 1992. On Good Friday 1878, Charles Taze Russell of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, ga…

Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality

By Tom Bartlett

…eryone that he hadn’t said that in a while, as if opinions have expiration dates. The trick is to oppose homosexuality without appearing to be a bigot. Mark Driscoll, the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church, which has 14 campuses in four states, once answered a question about the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality with the following syllogism: sex outside of marriage is wrong, God said marriage is between a man and a woman, therefore gay sex and ga…