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

[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.