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We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree

By Thomas Lecaque

…y ingrained in far-right discourse—and, more disturbingly, in conventional Republican rhetoric—that we tend to just move past it. Not because the damage is healed: as Jesselynn Cook details in her new book, The Quiet Damage, QAnon has ripped apart families and left lasting scars. And not because, post-Q, the beliefs have gone away: a PRRI survey from 2021 showed that as many as one in five Americans believes one of the core ideas of QAnon. Maybe i…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…litary Force (AUMF) bill, his successors—two Democratic presidents and one Republican—upheld the AUMF. This, Hilal writes, “has allowed the War on Terror’s global military footprint to expand exponentially—rippling out from the initial conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq to touch nearly 40 percent of the entire world.”[3] The Bush Doctrine thus remains core to U.S. war making and policies for managing populations at home and across the globe. PRA sp…

The Spirit of January 6th: The Theology of This Seldom Discussed Movement Animates the Growing Threat to U.S. Democracy

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…nger when people begin to think of themselves as gods. *PRA is Religion Dispatches’ parent organization, though RD remains editorially independent. **From progressive scholar John Weaver, to Liberty University theologian Tommy Ice, to the Southern Poverty Law Center, to journalist Elle Hardy at The New Republic, and Bruce Wilson, here at RD. Researcher Rachel Tabachnick laid out an explanation of the Latter Rain approach to dominion, and how this…

A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist

By Bradley Onishi

…ted States a Christian nation. Advocate Christian values. Enforce strict separation of church and state. Allow the display of religious symbols in public spaces. Allow prayer in public schools. And finally: “The success of the United States is part of God’s plan.” Whitehead and Perry categorize respondents to these questions into four categories: Ambassadors of Christian nationalism; Accommodators of Christian Nationalism; Skeptics of Christian na…

From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism

By Andrew Monteith

…the original Drug War that would permit authorities to prosecute even mild participation in drug use, such as handing someone a syringe, as a poisoning homicide. Cox is correct to point out that “poisoning” was a trope of the early Drug War but, along with many professional historians, there is one detail her article gets wrong. Although Nixon is often credited with starting the Drug War (and he did in fact escalate federal antidrug efforts) it ac…

Is ‘Beyond Doubt’ Correct About the Decline of Religion? Yes… Sort Of.

By Lucas McCracken

…as “congregations,” and they call their leaders “ministers.” Furthermore, participation in the Satanic Temple involves (voluntary) rituals including Black Mass and Unbaptism. The Satanic Temple has a totemic symbol—the Baphomet pentagram—as well as a unifying figure, Satan. In these ways, Temple members undeniably avail themselves of the language, practices, institutions, and symbolic resources of religion to ponder perennial questions, generate…

Painting of Jesus holding the US Constitution surrounded by Americans throughout its history.

Columbus Day Celebrates a Christian Doctrine That Authorized Centuries of Violence — and Continues to Threaten American Democracy

By Robert P. Jones

…al law that existed at the time, the Roman Catholic Church. In a series of papal proclamations between 1452 and 1493 (the last precipitated by Columbus’s return from his first voyage to the Americas), a new theology crystalized for the New World. While the theological constructions of the Doctrine of Discovery were complex, their logic was straightforward. The principal question for determining whether any newly discovered peoples had human rights…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…d every corner, and this twisted approach to the US-Israel relationship is part and parcel of that broader antisemitic worldview. “The United States of America has a Zionist occupied government,” railed white nationalist Keith Woods, who helped launch the antisemitic #BantheADL campaign last month that won support from Elon Musk. Woods’ tweet references the phrase ‘ZOG,’ long a mainstay in White nationalist propaganda. White Christian nationalist…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…the Tories had not focused on anti-immigration policy in their election campaign. “My party governed as liberals and they were defeated as liberals,” she declared. Already notorious for her anti-LGBTQ views, Braverman implied that trans people are “monsters who tried to mutilate children,” and railed against “trans fanatics”; her aside that “I’m too physically repulsed to go into detail of what it entails” met with loud applause. She also added to…

Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism

By Peter Laarman

…at least, to stop ridiculing them as narrow humorless bigots whose preoccupation with sin imparted a permanent unhealthy pallor to American culture. Robinson has a new piece beating this familiar drum in the current issue of Harper’s. To be clear, I do understand why Robinson would wish to correct the caricature of Puritans as hopeless cranks—a caricature that the intellectuals and humorists of the Roaring Twenties did much to create. But I worry…