Historian Kristin du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne, has an interview out with John Blake on CNN.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"You’ll hear the rhetoric that we need strong Godly men to step up to defend faith, family and nation. And so when you get inside Christian nationalist spaces, there is all kinds of militant rhetoric about manly strength, about Christian men who need to step up and take power, and assert their leadership because that is their God-ordained role."

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #ChristianNationalists #patriarchy #misogyny #heterosexism #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #homophobia
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Christian nationalism thrives on this us-versus-them mentality. This militancy is linked to always needing an enemy. And in Christian nationalism today, the enemies are internal. Historically the enemies of Christian America were secular humanists, feminists and then more recently Democrats and the woke."

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #ChristianNationalists #patriarchy #misogyny #heterosexism #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #homophobia
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

" For a long time, they were a powerful strand in the broader evangelical world and within the Republican Party. But they were offset by a more secular and pro-business conservatism.

What we’ve seen now is that they’ve moved into a dominant position within the Republican Party. The MAGA brand is the Republican Party. These ideas are not new. What is new is that for the first time, they are really in a position to carry out these plans."

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism
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[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy

Literally 1700s

I've recently looked into allegations of sexual abuse about female convicts and first nation peoples in the colony of Botany bay in Australia.

Let me tell you it's not a pretty picture.

I will post about it when I collect my thoughts, still in shock about it.

But basically it boils down to;

1 - Women were legally the property of their husbands.

2 - The idea of consent was very very different

3 - Your likelihood of reporting abuse largely depended on your Social standing as a woman.

Aboriginal women were treated like livestock.

That's the "virtuous" past these maggots crave.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@n_dimension Thank you. An important historical case to point to here, and as Faulkner famously said, history is not over and past.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@bouriquet I'd say that Christian nationalists are instrumentally useful to Trump and his handlers like Thiel, Bannon, and Musk. None of those men buy into Christian nationalism, but they're perfectly willing to promote its ideas and to use Christian nationalists to serve their agenda of domination and control by the super-rich.

[bouriquet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy So how to unmask them as disingenuous?

[tharpa@hear-me.social]

@wdlindsy This is actually how it is.

[wwwiebe@nerdculture.de]

@wdlindsy It's fucking scary.

[lrreynolds@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy more like the anti-Christ

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lrreynolds For sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wwwiebe It is, indeed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Tharpa My head is sometimes dull and I'm not sure I'm seeing your point with the yin-yang symbol.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@bouriquet I suppose that, to me, it seems self-evident that they unmask themselves, as Trump does. Nothing about them exhibits any real commitment to or even deep understanding of the core teachings of Christianity.

[tharpa@hear-me.social]

@wdlindsy A chauvanist view is not the correct view. Women and men are complimentary, and not in competition, and neither sex can be considered superior.

[godfrey642@aus.social]

@wdlindsy
To be brutally honest that's exactly the same as a lot of the rhetoric from hard-line Jewish and Islamic groups.

Imho the sooner all this faux-faith and divinity nonsense goes the better...
But being connected to each other in a grounded spiritual way is something completely different.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Godfrey642 But neither hard-like Jewish or Islamic groups have anywhere near the reach and political clout that white evangelicals have in the US, so it makes eminent sense to focus on white evangelicals if we want to see how religion is distorting the political sphere.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Tharpa Complementarism — based on biology — is at the heart of right-wing ideologies addressing gender issues today. I myself don't buy it and don't buy the biological determination of human beings and human nature.