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Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…f cultural conservatism that Christian nationalists want, a strongman is needed, the use of force is needed. Putin certainly provides that. And this is why Wiles should, at least, be a cause for some concern. He may be a lone fringe voice right now, embracing the idea of Putin as a positive apocalyptic force—something akin to the Last World Emperor, maybe—but the idea is worrisome because it fits so neatly into the larger Christian Right’s culture…

Student Expelled from Sorority for Transphobia Illustrates the Problem with Evangelical Understanding of Pluralism

By Chrissy Stroop

…which it decided to terminate Hines’s membership. Her case hasn’t exactly become a cause célèbre on the Right, but the basically fascist youth organization Young America’s Foundation and the alt-right rag Breitbart both proved willing to air Hines’s complaints about allegedly being ‘persecuted’ for her religious beliefs. According to Hines, it’s Alpha Phi that failed to embrace “diversity” by moving to enforce the very standards she presumably agr…

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

By Thomas Lecaque

…named—and, as far too many people online have pointed out, the rally is scheduled during the 30th anniversary of the siege of the Mount Carmel compound of the Branch Davidians. Of course, Trump is not David Koresh, and “cult” is a political designation whose terms are aggressively manipulated against new religious movements (or, in the case of the Branch Davidians, offshoots of well established Christian denominations). MAGA is essentially a polit…

‘He Gets Us’ and Sleazy ‘Swift Boat’ Ads Share a Central Figure — Further Evidence of a Right-Wing Bait-and-Switch

By Chrissy Stroop

….” And this backlash doesn’t come “only from the world (which should be expected),” Pinkston goes on, employing a catchall term that authoritarian Christians routinely use to encompass everything and everyone that exists outside of authoritarian Christianity, including liberal and progressive Christians. “The world,” for authoritarian Christians, is a “fallen” realm that is riddled with “demonic influences.” Thus, criticism from “the world” aside,…

Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down

By Thomas Lecaque

…ditioning the way they do. So no, this violence won’t end until it is stopped, because the pundits and politicians and trolls pushing this rhetoric want more violence. They’re already calling for the next mass shooting, the way they’d been calling for more bombings and more threats and more far-right attacks on drag queen story times. The way they were calling for a shooting like Club Q in the first place. Until there’s enough pushback or severe e…

Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…oric, which led to numerous attacks. Davidson continues with what has now become increasingly mainstream rhetoric in the Republican Party about how trans women are really men trying to attack cis women and girls: “They are angling to get grown men into women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, shelters, and dormitories. They are angling to get Child Protective Services to remove children from parents who refuse to go along with transgenderism.” The latter…

Christian Health Sharing Ministries Aren’t All Corrupt — But Here’s Why They Are a Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

…covers too little. Why would people want to leave themselves even less protected? The answer is, in a word, ideology. To be more specific, the problem is a right-wing authoritarian ideology in which it’s considered ideal to force people to depend on their families, churches, “God,” and themselves to survive—and if they can’t hack it, tough. Paternalism of this sort leaves those who already have money firmly in charge of how society is run. Many ex…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…y for whom I work.” In light of this development, Texas has unequivocally become ground zero for the nationwide assault on trans people being carried out by the Christian Right and the GOP—an assault that’s advancing to disturbing degrees in a number of Republican-controlled states, even if a court in Texas has stayed the investigation into the Does, for now. Apart from that context, I wouldn’t bother writing a column about an incident of online b…

New Clashes in Portland Confirm that Christian Nationalism Remains a Clear and Present Danger

By Chrissy Stroop

…60% of Republicans believe that President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected. Meanwhile, here on RD, Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, concluded the following about the GOP from her on-the-ground observation of the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual Road to Majority convention: “This party—or at least the hard rock of its base represented in this gathering—is moving toward,…

Another Manufactured Outrage: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did Nothing Wrong in Listing Hamas, Israel, and U.S. Together

By Joshua Shanes

…et. She made a list of actors who had committed crimes with victims that needed to go somewhere for justice. The implication, he said, was that they were the same. Perhaps. Although an implication is a very different thing than a literal equation. Here are three thoughts about this alleged controversy that might be helpful, the third of which is the most important. First, she did not literally equate these actors. That is simply false. Should she…