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Wrestling and Religion: We Know It’s Fake and We Don’t Care

By Jess Peacock

…Since I first laid my adolescent eyes upon the masked Mr. Wrestling II on Georgia Championship Wrestling in the 1970s, I became a dyed in the wool fan of the unique blend of physicality and scripted performance that has come to be known as “sports entertainment.” From the cultural impact of Hulkamania in the 1980s, through the downturn of the industry in the mid-1990s, to the explosion in popularity of the WWF vs. WCW Monday night wars, I excited…

New Report Mapping Christian Nationalism by State Suggests Election Need Not be Played Out on Christian Nationalist Terms

By Daniel Schultz

…Red states are just the opposite. And the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin? They’re all right around the national average. Those numbers are not destiny, however. Conservative Utah has low levels of agreement with Christian nationalism, at just 28%. Meanwhile its solidly Democratic neighbor New Mexico is a bit higher, at 32%. Still, the results are significant for understanding the political…

The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod

By Rosetta E. Ross

…m farm advocate) lost her job as the USDA Director of Rural Development in Georgia after Breitbart manufactured an image of her that was out of compliance with his standard of appropriate black behavior toward white persons. The reality of Breitbart’s deception has been made painstakingly clear through full presentation of the context from which the excerpted sound bite was clipped. The sound bite came from Sherrod’s March speech during which she…

A Sliver of White Evangelicals Abandoning Trump, But That May Be Enough

By Daniel Schultz

Donald Trump is losing the 2020 election, but you’d hardly know it by looking at the latest survey of various religious groups by PRRI (and by “various religious groups,” I really mean “mostly white Christians”). PRRI says that 66% of white evangelicals look favorably on Pres. Trump, as do 44% of white mainline Protestants and 48% of white Catholics. By comparison, only 36% of nonwhite Protestants and 37% of religiously unaffiliated think highly…

New for Democrats: Non-Personhood for the Non-Rich

By Peter Laarman

…their meager belongings and head off to stay with friends in remote North Georgia in hopes that something better might turn up. There are millions of families like the Hartzells out there—the Joads of this ruthless new economy—but there is no evidence at all that anyone in the political class is prepared to give them a seat at the budget negotiation table. In order to torture people, in order to cause them certain pain, you must first obliterate…

Praying for a Christian Nation on the Fourth

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…m and set them up as evidence of our “blessings” from God. In reality, our freedom is not found in the social order, but in the acknowledgement that God is not on our side, or on anyone’s side. Instead, God is the source of all—the ground of all being—that flows without regard to race, color, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, wealth, poverty, piety, or morality. God blesses us—be we nation or individual—when we realize we ar…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…at the two NACL conferences, serves on the advisory board, and even made a promotional video for the inaugural conference in 2020. As important as Huckabee’s blessing may be, Rapert may be looking to other rightwing Southern pols as role models; furthermore, his use of the federal courts as a foil for his political ambitions suggests that may be casting himself as the Roy Moore of Arkansas. Nationally known as the ‘Ten Commandments Judge” in the 1…

Hating Both the “Sin” and the “Sinner”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…socially acceptable. It really is as simple as deciding who is in charge of defining social values: God or the humanists. In McDurman’s Christian Reconstructionist world, we’d all be living under Old Testament law, whether we believed in his god or not. However, in a pluralistic society, where freedom from religion is just as important as freedom of religion, it is the society, not the divine deity of some people, that decides what hate is and wh…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…explain: George undermines his own credibility as a watchdog of religious freedom by going on to draw a comparison between Cain’s “loyalty proof” and opposition to “conscience” protections for health care workers who refuse, on religious grounds, to perform abortions, dispense birth control, or other procedures. He compares Cain’s statement to what he claims (inaccurately) was the statement of Democrat Martha Coakley when she was running her unsu…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…raveled from Germany. A member of the IFTCC Board of Directors from 2017 to 2020, Vonholdt directed the German Institute for Youth and Society (DIJG) until 2021—an evangelical think tank that has worked with right-wing organizations in the US, like the Institute for Religion and Democracy and the aforementioned NARTH. Vonholdt’s DIJG is connected to the Reichenberg Fellowship (known in Germany as the OJC) which offers a voluntary service for young…