"The amount of violence in Christian homes is perhaps most directly reflected in the violence of the American Christian Right—and a contributing factor to just how violent a place the United States is in general.”

“Within many evangelical homes, violent abuse of children is cast as a direct act of service to God, the showing it a grave, even mortal sin that puts children in peril of losing their eternal souls.”

~ Ibid., pp. 194, 196

#ChristianRight #evangelicals #children #abuse
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"The Obama era saw a hitherto untold explosion of myth making and misinformation, the intimations of persecution made enormous from pastors’ pulpits, of the careful cultivation of anger, fear, and faith. It was from that deliberate cultivation of the faithful that the trump era arose, and in the present moment it is the faithful that seek its return.”

~ Ibid., pp. 137-8

#WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #ChristianRight #Obama
/9

“The Christian Right and the big-business lobby grew together and commingled, trading zeal for cash and spawning congregants in their thousands.”

“The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 sparked a renewed vigor in the Christian Right. It was the ultimate insult: the integration not just of schools but of the sacred and heretofore pure-white office of the US presidency.” (p. 136).

~ Ibid., p. 136

#WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #ChristianRight #Obama
/8

"According to the historian Randall Balmer, whose book Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right described the intricate path from the evangelical past to its present, the real awakening of the religious Right as a political force came not after the case of Roe v. Wade but after a different and far less famous one, Green v. Kennedy."

~ Ibid., pp. 133-4

#WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #ReligiousFreedom #SupremeCourt #ChristianRight #evangelicals #RoevWade
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"It was the latter bit that ultimately woke the sleeping kraken of the Christian right, brought a new political force into its own, and turned churchgoers into politicians and politicians into holy guardians of a segregated Christian order.”

~ Ibid.

#WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #ReligiousFreedom #SupremeCourt #ChristianRight
/6

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"—I'm not in league with the Devil, or There's no such thing as the Devil—but this is more or less a futile exercise. It's better to get a firm foothold on the brimstone and heave ourselves out of Hell. But in order to escape a struggle we never chose, we must take into account the rhetoric on the Christian Right and who is providing it—and take stock of their theology as the existential threat to a pluralistic democracy it truly is” (p. 31).

#WhiteEvangelicals #Trump #ChristianRight
/9

“Outside the preferred world of demonology and its believers, down at the bottom of the seven mountains, where most of us live, it's a challenge to determine precisely how to contend with the political landscape in which a large proportion of one side believes that its opponents are literally in league with the Devil. In the face of such conviction, it's difficult not to shrink away or to try to combat it on its own terms"

#evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #ChristianRight
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“The doctrine of spiritual warfare is widespread among numerous evangelical denominations and has a particular influence on the authoritarian politics of the extreme Right” (p. 27).

#evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #ChristianRight
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“Reactionary ideology and fervent belief in demons have long gone hand in hand in American culture. As Poole put it, Christian conservatism, opposing social change as embodied in the civil rights and feminist movements, felt an increasing need to see ‘the devil embodied in its cultural opponents’” (p. 26, citing W. Scott Poole, Satan in America: The Devil We Know [Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009], p. 120).

#evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #ChristianRight
/6

"or it would be, if their brand of charismatic, brash, God-touched worship didn't hold such a fierce grip on the core and most active base of the Republican Party” (p. 25).

#evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #ChristianRight #ChristianNationalism
/5

“By 2020, the already strong tendency to see the Devil everywhere resurfaced in full bloom during a pandemic—a time of social, political, economic, racial, and domestic upheaval” (p. 21).

“It's easy to dismiss Paula White-Cain’s satanic pregnancies, Jane Whaley's prolific beatings, and Doris Wagner's blood pacts as the wild belief of fanatics—"

#evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #ChristianRight #ChristianNationalism
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"Though a minority, they punch far above their weight politically, with reliable votes, full coffers, and lockstep political ideology, pulling the nation ever further toward a straight, white theocracy” (p. 15, quoting Becky Sullivan, “The Proportion of White Christians in the US Has Stopped Shrinking, Study Finds,” NPR, July 8th, 2021).

#evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #ChristianRight #ChristianNationalism
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"‘Though [white evangelicals] make up just 14% of Americans overall, they remain the largest single religious group among Republican voters with the power to sway party priorities,’ noted reporter Becky Sullivan on NPR's Morning Edition. The politics of evangelicals are overwhelmingly conservative."

#evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #Republicans #Trump #ChristianRight #ChristianNationalism
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