William Lindsey Dec 6, 2023

As Alan Bean notes, in his new book Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, David Gushee draws attention to the way in which the reactionary authoritarian Christianity of white Christian nationalism in the US is also manifest in other nations now, including Hungary, Russia, and Brazil.

Binding these disparate national movements together is the following:

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https://baptistnews.com/article/a-call-for-immoderate-mediators-david-gushee-defends-democracy-from-its-christian-enemies/

A call for immoderate mediators: David Gushee defends democracy from its Christian enemies   – Baptist News Global

Democracy is described as a species of faith into which citizens must be catechized. Churches could, and should, train people for democratic participation, but almost always fail badly.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Dec 6, 2023

"A single theme emerges from Gushee’s nation studies: the vilification of the LGBTQ community. 'It is a strategy of evoking disgust for a group of vulnerable people,' he laments, 'and then leveraging that disgust to gain political power.' ...

From the advent of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015, we have witnessed a new anti-democratic militancy on the right featuring an adamant rejection of gay rights and of the need for racial justice."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Dec 6, 2023

Alan Bean concludes:

"David Gushee has emerged as a stalwart defender of gay rights and racial justice. He believes the American story needs to be retold from the perspective of the oppressed. American Christians can’t follow his guidance if we ignore these core ethical challenges."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"But the MAGA army’s eliminationism was not focused solely on Jewish targets. Beginning in early 2022, they increasingly began targeting the LGBTQ community, and transgender people in particular. Their primary rhetorical means of demonizing them was to suggest that they sexually abuse children, labeling them all pedophilic 'groomers.'”

~ David Neiwert

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https://davidneiwert.substack.com/p/our-eliminationist-in-chief-donald

Our eliminationist-in-chief, Donald Trump

When the most dangerous demagogue in American history uses rhetoric giving permission for genocide, his followers eagerly get in on the action

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Dec 6, 2023

"This is a dangerous time for America. Trump is wielding eliminationist rhetoric with its historic purpose, always the same: giving permission. Permission for what hides in the darkest corners of the American psyche to emerge. Americans must be prepared to blunt the violence when it inevitably arrives."

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