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"by the early 21st century, the ideal evangelical man had morphed into something that looks a lot more like Hegseth. …

Du Mez argues that the transformation of the evangelical masculine ideal grew out of a sense of embattlement. Facing threats to their status from feminism, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and broad economic shifts," (continued in /3)

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"evangelicals invested psychically in a kind of chauvinistic religiosity that allowed them to reassert their dominance, at the very least within the home. Cheerleading the cold war and post-9/11 wars in the Middle East provided another realm to act out these fantasies of domination, usually without needing to get their own hands dirty."

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"The perverse moral consequences of combining militant masculinity with religious certainty can be seen in the way this movement consistently supported the most questionable uses of American military power. ...

The contemporary Christian nationalist movement in the US unites Christians from disparate denominations."

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@wdlindsy

It's not only non-Americans that are faced with this type of toxic masculinity.

These folks believe they have a duty to cull the vulnerable.

This is how the GOP talk about Americans:
Former South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals.

You know why? Because they breed,” Bauer said during a speech advocating that the government take away assistance"

https://www.fitsnews.com/2025/05/26/the-second-coming-of-andre-bauer/