Fellow BA Ev Xn here, we’ve been had, SoCal. So glad you commented.
There was a deliberate, planned, systematic effort to tie Christians into Republican politics and it worked. I don’t agree with everything Dr. Kristen Kobes Du Mez writes in her “Jesus and John Wayne” but I think any Xn wanting to know how we got here ought to read it. An…
Fellow BA Ev Xn here, we’ve been had, SoCal. So glad you commented.
There was a deliberate, planned, systematic effort to tie Christians into Republican politics and it worked. I don’t agree with everything Dr. Kristen Kobes Du Mez writes in her “Jesus and John Wayne” but I think any Xn wanting to know how we got here ought to read it. And after that, Kevin Kruse’s “One Nation Under God” on how Jesus became a RW pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps capitalist.
Re: your comment: Matt 6:2 always comes to mind -- some people will get their tawdry “reward” here on earth.
100%! Also the podcast Straight White American Jesus is fabulous and has really helped this former evangelical get herself deprogrammed. Bradley Oneshi, one of the founders, is out with great but terrifying book about Christian Nationalism and what comes next. I caught one of the events when the book was published. And yes, we've been had and then some.
Fellow BA Ev Xn here, we’ve been had, SoCal. So glad you commented.
There was a deliberate, planned, systematic effort to tie Christians into Republican politics and it worked. I don’t agree with everything Dr. Kristen Kobes Du Mez writes in her “Jesus and John Wayne” but I think any Xn wanting to know how we got here ought to read it. And after that, Kevin Kruse’s “One Nation Under God” on how Jesus became a RW pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps capitalist.
Re: your comment: Matt 6:2 always comes to mind -- some people will get their tawdry “reward” here on earth.
100%! Also the podcast Straight White American Jesus is fabulous and has really helped this former evangelical get herself deprogrammed. Bradley Oneshi, one of the founders, is out with great but terrifying book about Christian Nationalism and what comes next. I caught one of the events when the book was published. And yes, we've been had and then some.