Scholars Upset With ‘1619 Project’ Must Abandon Vision of ‘America the Righteous’
Living at a time when every day brings fresh horrors, and living as well through various…
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Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?
Though compelling arguments have been made that CVE programs contribute to the marginalization and alienation of the very communities they’re meant to engage, they continue to receive significant funding from major cities, universities, and other institutions.
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Trump White House Cranks Religion to 11 As Impeachment Looms
Nixon asked people to pray for him and ended with “God bless America” to remind the nation that he was religious and therefore moral, and thus either innocent or deserving of forgiveness. Trump is doing the same with his gaggle of evangelical bootlickers.
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The Religious Motto That Isn’t Religious: How ‘In God We Trust’ Remains Constitutional [Part 2]
It turns out that Christian activists are perfectly willing to let federal judges desecrate their religion, so long as the desecration also allows them to promote their religion.
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The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]
This story should sound familiar, especially given the blame thrown at godlessness in the wake of mass shootings and the “thoughts and prayers” offered as a “solution.”
Read MoreThe Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]
Project Blitz and legislators like Reed, who are willing to nationalize Christianity, threaten our Constitution.
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The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy
Thinking of these killers as “lone wolf” actors makes it easier to dismiss them as demented individuals, hapless victims of bad parenting, self-destructive misfits, or erratic evil doers. But we need to see these “lone wolf” white supremacists for what they are—members of “wolf packs.”
Read MoreA Recent Local Controversy Reveals the Theocratic Heart of ‘Project Blitz’
The Christian nationalist intentions of Project Blitz have also received much attention, but a remarkable episode in Minnesota this past state legislative session may be a harbinger of a more profoundly theocratic politics on the horizon.
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SCOTUS’ Bladensburg Cross Ruling Is a Church-State Mess
Alito’s majority opinion is bereft of both principle and reason. He could have been more concise and lost little nuance by simply writing: ‘The 40ft tall Christian cross is really old and people will get upset if we remove it, so it stays.’
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How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting
O’Reilly and Dugard’s interpretation of the gospels in Killing Jesus was motivated by the same politics of resentment that Trump inherited from the Tea Party—a politics of fiscal, ethnic/racial, and religious conservatism.
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