"We need to be a lot less tolerant"

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OtwzpVx4eh0

Trump’s Holy Warriors Finally Got the Apocalypse They’ve Prayed For – Mother Jones

Shortly after the first bombs fell in Iran last week, a chorus of prominent Christian Zionists cheered. In a broadcast of the evangelical show "FlashPoint," Lance Wallnau, a Texas-based leader in a rapidly spreading charismatic Christian nationalist movement called the New Apostolic Reformation, declared that the war was evidence that "Jesus is back on the menu." …"Once the first domino falls, the others will fall: the emergence of the Antichrist, the tribulation period, the battle of Armageddon, the second coming, the millennial reign of Christ."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trumps-holy-warriors-finally-got-the-apocalypse-theyve-prayed-for/ 

 

American Republican Jesus #duet #jesus #rightwing #christian #christiannationalism

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YqHA7O02xkQ

 

USAID Dismantler Peter Marocco Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy — ProPublica

On a 2018 visit to the Balkans, Marocco secretly met with officials whom the American government had determined were off-limits without the highest levels of approval: ethnonationalist Bosnian Serb separatist leaders. Those politicians had been working for years to defy their nation's constitution and undermine the American-backed peace deal in an effort to promote a Christian Bosnian Serb state...

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-peter-marocco-state-department-bosnia-serbia-diplomacy-trump-foreign-policy

Nazis and White Christian Nationalists Excited About ELON MUSK'S 'LOVING HITLER ENERGY!!!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNoty0aIjPU

 

Christian extremists turned Texas’ vote for House speaker into a far-right rally

… But the most disturbing outbursts came from the Christian extremists who gathered at the statehouse, where they denounced the separation of church and state — with one pastor proclaiming: "We're going to give this space back to the Holy Spirit."…

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/texas-speaker-vote-christian-nationalists-trump-rcna187869

Disarming Leviathan - Bonus Episode with Caleb Campbell (Warren Throckmorton; Telling Jefferson Lies podcast)

On July 2, 2024, Caleb Campbell's new book Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor officially drops everywhere. Today, I am posting most of the interview I conducted with Caleb for use in my podcast series Telling Jefferson Lies.

In this episode, I do say I want to smash Christian nationalists, but I hope it is clear that I am not serious, but instead I agree with Caleb's approach. There is often a difference between what we might feel like doing and we know we should do, and Caleb points us to our better angels.

The opening music is something I lovingly call the Christian Nationalist Dance and the closer is Lo-Fi Hymnal's rendition of Were You There.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-cxiv3-1f6c8c96

Why Trump Is Partnering With Christian Nationalists | Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsORP-VuRI

Christian Men’s Conference Descends Into Chaos (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #527)

— Christian Men’s Conference descends into chaos over sword-swallowing acrobat. (1:02)

— Wisconsin official blames homelessness on “sin,” then votes against aid for the poor. (25:15)

— Christian Nationalist falsely claims Satanist chaplains “don’t qualify” to work in schools. (39:27)

— Tennessee declares Aitken Bible one of its “official state books.” (53:37)

— North Dakota GOP endorses Christian theocrat to run the state’s public schools. (1:07:06)

— Louisiana High Court: Priests have a “right” not to be sued over decades-old abuse. (1:20:15)
Interview: 

https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/

Telling Jefferson Lies: Still Searching for Christian America, Part Two (Warren Throckmorton)

In this episode, I describe the National Prayer Breakfast movement, right-wing Christian nationalists, Reconstructionists, and non-denominational charismatic Christian nationalists.

My guests for this episode are:

Julie Ingersoll, Professor of religion at the University of North Florida and author of Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

Jonathan Larsen: Journalist, https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/

Joel McDurmon: Attorney, theologian, and author of several books including The Problem of Slavery in Christian America.

Katherine Stewart: Journalist, author of Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. The documentary God and Country, produced by Rob Reiner is based on this book.

Matthew Taylor: Senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies and author of the book due out on September 24, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-6y8w2-1defa5aa

The Problems with ”Covenant Marriage” -- (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke; The Friendly Atheist podast #503)

— Speaker Mike Johnson's "covenant marriage" doesn't make it more meaningful. (0:50)

— Grand Canyon University, the nation's largest Christian school, just got fined $38 million for lying about tuition costs. (25:22)

— The Southern Baptist Convention is still fighting against survivors of sexual abuse. (41:09)

— After forcing kids to attend religious revival, a West Virginia school district has settled the case for $175,000. (1:03:38)

— Texas Supreme Court to decide if a judge can be punished for refusing to marry gay couples. (1:12:10)
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-59f5i-1ba9560c

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy-- Robert P. Jones, PRRI

What is the connection of the Pope of the 15th century to White Supremacy?  What do white Christian Nationalists mean when they object to certain teachings about American history?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AKq1jWLQs

Weekly Roundup: Moms for Book Bans, Dads for Dictators (Daniel Miller and Bradley Onishi; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad begins by offering a metaphor for understanding how Christian nationalists and others view the United States: A complementarian marriage. The role of the cishet dad-husband as protector and the mom-wife as innocent homemaker provides a window into why so many conservatives want to ban books and are calling for dictators.

In the following segments Brad and Dan examine the ways this metaphor is playing out in the work of Moms for Liberty, Matt Walsh, and others across the country. Brad explains why he thinks that the Right will not flinch when their leaders suggest setting up camps for trans people. Dan unpacks the ways that Moms for Liberty is using a micro minority to take over schools. Brad relates their efforts to the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-moms-for-book-bans-dads-for-dictators/

Christian Nationalists Are Closer Than You Think to Running America – Mother Jones

"You don't need books!" shouts Pennsylvania state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, waving a battered Bible. "This is the only book that's alive and living!" Applause and cries of "amen" float up from the crowd around me...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/christian-nationalists-are-closer-than-you-think-to-running-america/

Why Steve Bannon is trying to mobilize Christian nationalists

Summoning Christian Republicans to work the polls is part of a broader strategy to make November's midterm elections as chaotic as the 2020 election...

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/why-steve-bannon-trying-mobilize-christian-nationalists-n1298273

Opinion | Silence in the face of injustice is a sin, too - The Washington Post

…We can't help but notice the absence of moral sensibilities in many of today's Christian churches, as right-wing Christian nationalists, in the name of Christ, try to overturn elections, attack voting rights and convert this country into a living hell for all unlike themselves, especially people of color and members of the LGBTQ communities...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/22/russia-us-white-nationalist-christian-church-ukraine/

Roe is Doomed. Contraceptives Could Be Next (Opening Arguments podcast OA533)

Today is part 1 of a much needed but quite dire deep-dive. The case is Griswold v. Connecticut, which may be familiar even to the layperson. It's what gives us the right to buy contraceptives and not have shopkeepers ask us if we're married. How could that possibly be overturned, you might ask? Well, legally speaking, it is justified in the exact same way as Roe.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-mev6m-107ebfce

Trump has emboldened Christian nationalists and sparked a rise in Patriot Churches - The Washington Post

The new congregation is gathered in a barn in Lenoir City, Tenn., with a roof that has a 60-foot American flag painted on it. And they are praying for a Trump landslide. Standing in a circle, the dozen or so men and women, young and old, lay their hands on their pastor, Ken Peters, as he raises their requests to God. He prays that “communism and socialism and transgenderism and homosexuality and abortion will not have their way in this land.”....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/10/26/trump-christian-nationalism-patriot-church/