
Jesus & John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (with author Dr. Kristin Du Mez)
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We're Better Because We Are by Declaration, Kind of a Thing
i'm totally about patriotism in the healthiest sense of loving your country, while i am an opponent of blind nationalism. And that seems to correlate too much, at least a significant percentage, of evangelical conservatism in this country. When they took these ideals of warrior masculinity, a man who was not afraid to do what needed to be done, and then could have twisted their faith to a line with that, so that the jesus of the gospels became a warrior christ. So it was this us versus them. If you're not with us, you are against us. Preemptive war was appropriate, ah, because the stakes were just so high. And this is christian americ
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