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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

…in ever more hysterical apocalyptic tirades while begging for money and preaching extreme conspiracy theories. And while this kind of language is militant and weird, it’s not (yet?) a normative part of far-right evangelical discourse in America—of Putin as the chosen one. But it is absolutely the adoption of Russian rhetoric of Satanism, of Antichrist, of holy war, of culture wars, taken to the next level. Wiles has long been focused on the conce…

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

…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…

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

…ic of eschatological violence, an apocalyptic framework that encourages violence against their political opponents. Waco is a campaign stop, but it’s also an emblem of anti-government violence, and an especially potent one when combined with repeated messages about the tyranny and violence of their opponents. Mass protests might not materialize, but the call to stochastic terrorism, motivated by religio-political ideology, is pouring out of the Tr…

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

…Gets Us” is designed to pull people into the kinds of churches that will teach them to conflate their faith with voting Republican and going “cuckoo for culture wars.” As a result, it’s filled me with a bit of well-earned schadenfreude to watch the evangelical and Reformed infighting about whether the campaign is “biblical.” While we don’t have precise data, it seems that many of today’s right-wing, mostly White evangelicals are in no mood to pla…

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

…te. Sure Foundation’s Aaron Thompson, an aggressively anti-LGBTQIA+ hate preacher, is once again in the news for celebrating the mass shooting, saying it was a “good thing” that five people were killed and accusing them of being child molesters. The clip is horrifying: https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1595622960731394048?s=20&t=ocIK4G8YFjIlh9wt1Lohig Thompson’s rhetoric, with its celebration of the murders, is the most explicit, but all of t…

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

…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…

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

…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…

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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

…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…

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

…round election conspiracy theories. Indeed, because of his popularity and reach, Lindell’s baseless claims are causing problems for local election officials who are compelled to field calls from angry right-wing voters demanding that something be done about non-existent fraud. Indeed, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 60% of Republicans believe that President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected. Meanwhile, here on RD, Katherine Stewart,…

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

…ty of this error as the next person. I first encountered the story on the Facebook page of a well-known historian, who called Omar “beneath contempt,” which stoked a chorus of more hatred, some of it very ugly, racist and/or misogynist. This instinctually led me to want to defend her—but still I wanted to know more for myself. I saw many people writing that she “literally equated” Hamas with Israel and America. I asked someone I know who is a stro…

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