Anthea Butler On Trump’s Lack of Empathy (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad speaks to Professor Anthea Butler, a captain in the Biden campaign’s “Catholics for Biden” initiative, and chair of the Religious Studies department at the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss the details of Trump’s COVID diagnosis and how his recklessness is fueled by four things: 

• Prosperity Gospel 
• positive thinking, 
•  racism, 
• capitalism,  
• hypermasculinity. 

These themes ground a conversation that ranges from Trump’s lack of empathy for Americans, especially BIPOC, who have contracted the virus, his supporters’ call for empathy after telling the nation that it was okay if “grandma dies” to save the economy, the conservative Evangelicals and Catholics who held a superspreader prayer rally at the Lincoln Memorial, and the belief that whiteness is a shield against the iniquities that plague other people.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/bonus-content-anthea-butler-on-trumps-lack-of-empathy/

Prosperity Gospel, Prosperity President (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)(Spirit and Power S2: E1)

In​ this episode of Spirit & Power, Dr. Leah Payne speaks with Dr. Gabriel Raeburn – Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative – about the health and wealth preachers who love Donald J. Trump, and their ​affinities with tech billionaires like Elon Musk & Peter Thiel. 

Fully embracing the glitz and glam of Trump’s 21st Century second term, prosperity preachers are setting their own political agendas and living the high life with their favorite president, a long way from their impoverished, Depression-Era roots.

Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/spirit-and-power-s2-e1-prosperity-gospel-prosperity-president/

The New Age spirituality of TikTok, from prosperity gospel to manifesting - Vox

…When enormous swaths of people feel as though they have no power against evildoing, she argues, they tend to opt into narratives that provide a simple answer as to why the world is so terrifying. "With the case of Astroworld, the [organizers] didn't do their due diligence, and they prioritized profit over the health and safety of humans. And that is a lonelier, grimmer thought to sit with than Travis Scott being a demonic villain." It also lets us off the hook: "I totally empathize with why you would want to believe that you can fix capitalism by just wishing for money," she says. "That's so much easier than trying to implement taxes for the rich."…

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22832827/manifesting-tiktok-astroworld-conspiracy-qanon-religion