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It’s Not About Facts or Fear: What Many Liberals Get Wrong About Religious Conservatives

By John Stoehr

…omination. Fourth, the appeal of Donald Trump. Forget about religion for a minute to remind yourself who the president is. He doesn’t care about anything but himself. WEPs and WCCs think anyone who isn’t a WEP or a WCC is the enemy. Put these together, and you have have what is, for all intents and purposes, a cult-like movement comprising millions of Americans who already felt the slow muddle of modernity was Christian genocide not otherwise spec…

‘Defund the Police’ Isn’t the Problem

By John Stoehr

…a snappy slogan like ‘Defund the police,’ but you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you’re actually going to get the changes you want done. But if you instead say, “Let’s reform the police department so that everybody’s being treated fairly, you know, divert young people from getting into crime … [then] suddenly, a whole bunch of folks who might not otherwise listen to you are listening to you. And i…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

By SJ Crasnow

…nd whiteness to thrive. White Jews in the U.S. Colonial Jews were small in number, and their experiences were mixed. While some experienced upward economic mobility, they faced limitations in terms of rights and access. However, Jews were not alone in facing discrimination. Importantly, debates over whether Jews (and other white religious “Others”) would be given rights primarily appear to have engaged with religious freedom. Though some have desc…

The Problem Isn’t Just Legal Efforts to Overturn Elections, the Problem is Bad Faith

By Daniel Schultz

…that state. He also seems set to pressure Mike Pence right up to the last minute to do what is impossible (and illegal), and will no doubt rage and perhaps lash out when Congressional Republicans fail to rescue him from final defeat, as they surely will. Beyond Trump, however, various dead-enders continue to file increasingly far-fetched lawsuits seeking to overturn election results in hotly-contested states like Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Mich…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…pro-Trump activity, Angeli was deeply involved in this milieu. But wait a minute—aren’t New Agers meant to be peace-loving hippies? The views that Angeli has expressed in interviews incorporate wide-ranging conspiracy theories: elites or “the cabal” are using black magic; they’re trying to establish a one world government called the New World Order; Operation Mockingbird infiltrated the media; we’re all debt slaves to banking cartels; children ar…

Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism

By Chrissy Stroop

…, does that dude have some obnoxious stans. But wait, let me back up for a minute. Fandom has become such a constitutive aspect of many people’s identities in this internet age that pop-culture commentators have adopted the language of religious studies to describe it, noting, for example, that strong “in-group preference and out-group bias” fuels the “cultish fanaticism” and persecution complex that characterize what are often referred to as “tox…

The Vatican ‘Doubts’ Same-Sex Love, But More Doubt The Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…e it took Brutus to plunge his sword, what today one would call a New York minute, the statement has been rejected widely. The agency was answering its own “Doubt” about whether the institutional Roman Catholic Church could—really the question is should—bless same-sex partnerships. The “Response” was a clear, clipped “Negative.” The Responsum, dated February 22, 2021, was signed by Luis F. Cardinal Ladria the Prefect, and Archbishop Giacomo Morand…

Purity Culture is Also About National Purity: Anti-Asian Hate and Purity Culture [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

The three and a half minute clip below, exclusive to RD, is from Bradley Onishi’s opening monologue of the March 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Onishi and Daniel Miller. RD will be collaborating with SWAJ to regularly bring you audio and transcripts on Christian nationalism, “conversion therapy,” purity culture, and more. — eds https://religiondispatches.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Anti-Asian-Hate-and-Purity-C…

How the Christian Nationalist Version of ‘The American Story’ Enabled Georgia’s Anti-Black Voter Restriction Law [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

…n beneath a painting of a former slave plantation. In this exclusive three-minute clip from the March 26 episode of Straight White American Jesus, hosts Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller discuss the mindset that enables such blatantly anti-democratic and racist policy. RD will be collaborating with SWAJ to regularly bring you exclusive audio clips and transcripts on Christian nationalism, “conversion therapy,” purity culture, and more, all of which…

James Dobson’s Family Values Were Influenced by a Eugenicist [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

This exclusive three-minute clip, featuring historian Audrey Clare Farley, is from the May 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller. RD will be collaborating with SWAJ to regularly bring you audio and transcripts on Christian nationalism, “conversion therapy,” purity culture, and more. — eds https://religiondispatches.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Audrey-Clare-Farley-RD-Clip-.ogg Bradley…