Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace

by Elizabeth Neumann

Instead of hearing Allahu Akbar, we heard a strangely dressed man shouting “Thank You, heavenly Father for gracing us with this opportunity.”

the US Capitol, injuring nearly 150 police officers and contributing to the deaths of at least five officers

even with all our post-9/11 investments in intelligence gathering, analysis, and protective measures.

In the 2040s, whites will no longer be the majority race in the US.

anyone making an argument that Christianity is facing an existential threat is heretical.

Christianity is the existential threat

According to CSIS, left-wing violence nearly doubled in 2020 and 2021. In the three years prior to 2020, left-wing violence accounted for only 5–11 percent of domestic terrorist attacks and plots, but in 2020, it was 23 percent, and in 2021, it was 40 percent.

the Crusades and the Inquisition are the most blatant examples of Christian religious extremism.

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Many adherents of these movements may not even believe the tenets of the Christian faith. But they leverage the veneer of Christianity to justify their vision of society.

1828 to 1838, over eighty thousand Native Americans were forcibly removed from their native lands and sent to the far west.

1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act barring Chinese immigrants for ten years, after white workers organized violent protests against Chinese immigrants they claimed were lowering wages.

1944, the US Supreme Court upheld the executive branch’s internment of US citizens of Japanese descent aft...

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), now the largest evangelical denomination in the United States, was founded to protect Southern slaveholders.

Sixteen percent of adults have dechurched in the last twenty-five years. That means almost 40 million people used to go to church but no longer do.