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Rather than turning the other cheek, they’d resolved to defend their faith and their nation, secure in the knowledge that the ends justify the means.
In reality, evangelicals did not cast their vote despite their beliefs, but because of them.
More than any other religious demographic in America, white evangelical Protestants support preemptive war, condone the use of torture, and favor the death penalty.
Christian nationalism—the belief that America is God’s chosen nation and must be defended as such—serves as a powerful predictor of intolerance toward immigrants, racial minorities, and non-Christians.
To be an evangelical, according to the National Association of Evangelicals, is to uphold the Bible as one’s ultimate authority, to confess the centrality of Christ’s atonement, to believe in a born-again conversion experience, and to actively work to spread this good news and reform society accordingly.
Among evangelicals, high levels of theological illiteracy mean that many “evangelicals” hold views traditionally defined as heresy, calling into question the centrality of theology to evangelicalism generally.
The products Christians consume shape the faith they inhabit. Today, what it means to be a “conservative evangelical” is as much about culture as it is about theology.
But southern evangelicals found a way to define Christian manhood in a manner that sanctified aggression; to maintain order and fulfill their role as protectors, there were times when Christian men must resort to violence.
“The unspoken mantra of post-war evangelicalism was simple: Jesus can save your soul; but John Wayne will save your ass.”52
Why Wait? What You Need to Know about the Teen Sexuality Crisis,
I forgot about this!
Men, not women, brought an end to slavery, apartheid, and the Nazis.
Who CAUSED those problems in the first place?!?!
It was a small rhetorical step to change the feminine “beauty” all men were created to fight for into the nation herself.28
Although the school accepted fewer than one hundred students a year, in its fourth year of existence it accounted for 7 percent of White House interns.
Although they lacked direct evidence, Brody and Lamb did not lack certainty:
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Appreciating how this ideology developed over time is also essential for those who wish to dismantle it. What was once done might also be undone.
