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Jason Kirk:
[Answering questions that I wasn't able to get to during our book launch party.] From Will: "This book is specifically evangelical, but what are the commonalities you see in culture (if not degree) across different faiths? What should we be worried about with evangelicalism growing in political importance, and how can exvangelicals and other religious refugees stop it?"
Jason Kirk
I think of it like this: The book's *setting* is 9/11-era American White Evangelicalism. The book is *about* Western Christian theologies of self-hatred, nationalism, and identity politics. Very, very, very few of the bad political, theological, or cultural ideas depicted in this book were actually invented by Evangelicals — usually by European Catholics, in fact.
I view right-wing religious traditions as systems similar to so many other systems that pit people against people. On one level, the solution is speaking out, because nobody takes the leap of leaving their original community unless they know they have somewhere to land. On another, it's solidarity with all workers, oppressed people, and marginalized people everywhere — which I believe is exactly what Jesus taught.
I view right-wing religious traditions as systems similar to so many other systems that pit people against people. On one level, the solution is speaking out, because nobody takes the leap of leaving their original community unless they know they have somewhere to land. On another, it's solidarity with all workers, oppressed people, and marginalized people everywhere — which I believe is exactly what Jesus taught.
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