Stephan: Doing my daily research to produce SR today I went through a number of Republican and rightwing sites. I do this regularly although not daily, because I have found leaving small gaps of time is the best way to see trends develop. Today's little excursion left me with three main impressions. First, the increasing christofascist racism, even from a month ago. Second, the attempt to blame the frightening increase in Covid cases not on the willful stupidity and culpability of the Right, particularly Red state governors, but on a supposed mass migration of Covid carrying immigrants Biden is allowing to flood into the United States. Something that factually is not happening. Third, the explicit rejection of democracy. This last most notable in the words of the fascist racist Tucker Carlson, the loudest voice on Fox.
How did we get this way? Katherine Stewart, in this excellent essay, lays out how White supremacy Christian nationalism arose in America. It is a story virtually no one but a subset of historians knows. Worth your time to learn it.
Donald Trump and Jerry Fallwell, Jr.Credit: White House photo
Right around the time the House began its impeachment inquiry, the homepage of the U.S. Department of State featured a talk by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo titled “Being a Christian Leader.” Only a few weeks had passed since Attorney General William Barr told students at Notre Dame Law School that “secularists” are to blame for “moral chaos” and “immense suffering, wreckage, and misery,” and that “Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate utilitarian rules for human conduct.” Then, at a January campaign rally at a Miami megachurch, President Donald Trump told the largely evangelical crowd that God is “on our side.”
Most of us have a sense that this kind of religious-nationalist rhetoric and behavior got its start with the revolution that Reagan brought to power. A decisive moment was in August 1980, at the Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas, when Reagan addressed 15,000 thousand pastors and religious activists. “I know that you can’t endorse me,” but “I want you to know that I endorse you and what you […]
There IS a mass migration of illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, many of whom are COVID positive. Immigration should be a legal and orderly process, but it is not. The problem is simply being ignored by the Biden-Harris administration.
Mark
on Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 10:59 am
Michael, please cite your non-political credible sources for this assertion?
Bara
on Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 6:50 am
And Reagan cleverly copied Catholic candidate Kennedy speaking to protestant clergy with solidarity. As has/is power groper #45 aping Hitler.
It’s all ignoring the climate cliff fear: having to give up our accumulation
culture — giving up being recognized for high grades and salaries by our
amounts of stuff. Sharing the bounty.
Attention is our most valued luxury – spend it on what you do WANT TO HAPPEN — thought>word>deed=future.
Systems work better with feedback loops. Give feedback!
Tom N
on Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 7:09 am
And so is the expert, Katherine Stewart? Hard to see any of her credentials, but one sums up who she really is.
“ Who Is Katherine Stewart?
What qualifies Stewart to conclude that those who disagree with her on climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic are science deniers? The “Note on the Author” in “The Power Worshippers” identifies her as “one of the leading authorities on the political aspects of the religious right” and “author of ‘The Good News Club: The Religious Right’s Stealth Attack on America’s Children’” who “contributes to the New York Times, American Prospect, the Washington Post, the Nation, the Guardian, the Advocate, and the Atlantic” — all left-leaning publications.In 2014, she “was named Person of the Year by … Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.” Her Wikipedia entry identifies her as a journalist, and its section on “Early life and education” lists no education. Ditto the “About” page of the website for her book “The Good News Club.”
In short, Stewart appears to be a hard-left, anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian campaigner writing in ignorance about both science and religion and bent on excluding religious voices from the public square.
There IS a mass migration of illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, many of whom are COVID positive. Immigration should be a legal and orderly process, but it is not. The problem is simply being ignored by the Biden-Harris administration.
Michael, please cite your non-political credible sources for this assertion?
And Reagan cleverly copied Catholic candidate Kennedy speaking to protestant clergy with solidarity. As has/is power groper #45 aping Hitler.
It’s all ignoring the climate cliff fear: having to give up our accumulation
culture — giving up being recognized for high grades and salaries by our
amounts of stuff. Sharing the bounty.
Attention is our most valued luxury – spend it on what you do WANT TO HAPPEN — thought>word>deed=future.
Systems work better with feedback loops. Give feedback!
And so is the expert, Katherine Stewart? Hard to see any of her credentials, but one sums up who she really is.
“ Who Is Katherine Stewart?
What qualifies Stewart to conclude that those who disagree with her on climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic are science deniers? The “Note on the Author” in “The Power Worshippers” identifies her as “one of the leading authorities on the political aspects of the religious right” and “author of ‘The Good News Club: The Religious Right’s Stealth Attack on America’s Children’” who “contributes to the New York Times, American Prospect, the Washington Post, the Nation, the Guardian, the Advocate, and the Atlantic” — all left-leaning publications.In 2014, she “was named Person of the Year by … Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.” Her Wikipedia entry identifies her as a journalist, and its section on “Early life and education” lists no education. Ditto the “About” page of the website for her book “The Good News Club.”
In short, Stewart appears to be a hard-left, anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian campaigner writing in ignorance about both science and religion and bent on excluding religious voices from the public square.
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.“