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“Who touched my garments?”: White Supremacy and the Desire of Absolution

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Each of the synoptic gospels detail Jesus’ raising of Jairus’ daughter after she passes away while Jesus travels to Jairus’ home. On his way to Jairus’ house, a crowd of people swarmed around Jesus and his disciples, hoping to be close to him. In the crowd, a woman who “had had a flow of blood for twelve years” (Mark 5:25) and who had sought … Read More “Who touched my garments?”: White Supremacy and the Desire of Absolution

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Politics and The American Christian Revolution

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Over the past few posts, I have been writing about the Christian fascism at the heart of America’s Providential History, a textbook used in homeschooling and private schools. Today, I want to wrap up my examination of the textbook by looking at the authors’ calls for Christians to become actively involved in politics at the local, state, and national level. Along with calling for … Read More Politics and The American Christian Revolution

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Capitalism, Politics, and Christian Nationalism

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At the end of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism and What Comes Next, Bradley Onishi details the American Redoubt movement, a movement that calls upon white Christian nationalists to build enclaves where they can control politics and culture, thus enacting dominion over society. As Onishi told Religion News Service, he knows about “100 church people of high school friends” … Read More Capitalism, Politics, and Christian Nationalism

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Genteel Racism” in “America’s Providential History”

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Mark Beliles and Stephen McDowell’s America’s Providential History, which I started writing about in my pervious post, has been used in Christian schools and in the home-schooling movement since its initial publication in 1989. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges points out that the authors of this textbook define “‘liberty’ as fealty to ‘the Spirit of the Lord.’” Working towards “liberty” means freeing oneself from … Read More Genteel Racism” in “America’s Providential History”

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America’s Providential History: Dominionsim, Totalitarianism, and Fascism

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“Throughout this book,” the authors of America’s Providential History write, “we have seen that we must take action to assure that America is re-established on a firm Christian base, and hence, secure our God-given liberties and provide a free and prosperous platform from which we can go and make disciples of all the nations.” America’s Providential History is a Christian textbook used in homeschooling … Read More America’s Providential History: Dominionsim, Totalitarianism, and Fascism

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