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A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture

By Seth Dowland

…scuss Mark 10:21-25. In this famous parable, Jesus instructs a rich man to sell all that he has and give it to the poor. The rich man dejectedly walks away, unwilling to comply. Jesus tells his disciples—in words many Christians can recite by heart—“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family Sophie Bjork-…

How the Anti-Abortion Movement Gave us Donald Trump — and Why It Could Bring Worse

By Jonathan Dudley

…nying that abortion is the same as killing another person may be a tougher sell for many evangelicals than highlighting limitations of the anti-abortion movement’s political strategy. That is: unwavering support for anti-abortion politicians will not end, or even significantly reduce, abortion. A 2016 study in Lancet, one of the leading medical journals, failed to find any correlation between the legal status of abortion and the abortion rate in c…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…converted it into sugar and molasses died of horrific abuse in staggering numbers. These islands were perpetually hungry for more flesh. New arrivals, coming from North America in chains, were always welcome, and the grandee planters paid handsomely. But routinely selling captured natives to the islands was just the beginning for the North American settlers. The long-lived Roger Williams was barely in his grave before his Rhode Island colony was…

303 Creative Is Not a ‘Religion v. Gay Rights’ Case — But Here’s Why the Christian Right is Happy with the Media Suggesting Just That

By Heron Greenesmith

…on the Internet. Religion is no blanket protection against the law. If you sell wedding websites in Colorado, you can’t pick which customers you want to purchase your websites. Smith and 303 Creative lost in the lower courts when they tried to argue that Smith’s desire to discriminate was more important than protecting Coloradans against discrimination. In fact, they lost so badly that the appellate court said the Colorado law survived the highest…

Why Drew Brees Was Right

By Johnathan Richardson

…from 1963, Malcom X explained why he believed that white liberals, who, “[sell] themselves to the Negro as a friend of the Negro” were more dangerous than the white conservative: “The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show the…

The Desire to Annihilate Gaza Wasn’t Born on 10/7 — It’s Part of a Long Tradition that Includes 19th Century Travel Writing

By Adam Yaghi

…n Christian and Jewish Zionisms, Netanyahu has systematically attempted to sell the genocidal war on Gaza as “a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness.” The Muslims are coming, Netanyahu implies in a clash-of-civilizations tone, declaring, “I tell our friends in the enlightened world: Our war is also your war. If we do not stand together in a united front, it will reach you as well.” In their different ways, Netanyahu…

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

…ld. No, it’s the sheer giddy, delirious enthusiasm with which he makes his sell that really sets this apart. It’s like a warm, friendly bubble bath at the end of the day, except all the bubbles are formed of lysergic acid and recycled Fuller Brush salesmen. This is the stuff that kept Hunter S. Thompson (God rest his soul) paranoid to the very end. It’s one step away from fitting right into the Repo Man script. Everything from Lindell’s Rupert Pup…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…the more mainstream idea: the gun as a religious weapon. If Daniel Defense sells their guns using Bible verses, other companies have a much closer affiliation. A Florida gunmaker, Spike’s Tactical, makes an AR-15-style rifle they call the “Crusader.” The name is chosen deliberately and with care, and the company knows exactly what they’re selling. As their website says: Spike’s Tactical created a balanced reliable rifle that would bring an excelle…

Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It?

By Chrissy Stroop

…es, they did so by double-digit margins. Subsequently Trump’s favorability numbers among White evangelicals who attend church frequently and those who attend seldom or never converged at around 60% favorability, but Jones still concluded, “At best, church attendance may modestly blunt the appeal of Trump’s most xenophobic rants among White evangelicals, but it ultimately makes no difference in White evangelical support for his candidacy as preside…

Why Science and Social Distancing Can’t Replace Healing Supplements and Prayer

By Alan Levinovitz

…ngaged in “leveraging the fear and uncertainty surrounding the outbreak to sell products and ill-conceived health theories,” whether they’re faith healers, Dr. Oz, or supplement sellers—and we should strive to educate those who fall for their sales pitches so they are no longer vulnerable. I once held this position. Dr. Oz’s openminded posture, I suggested, is actually risky; tolerating “alternative facts” about alternative medicine diminishes our…