"He’d seen cadets and families at the Cadet Chapel welcomed by 'a phalanx of enthusiastic pastors' and recruited to Monday night Bible studies taught by members of New Life Church and Focus on the Family staff bused in for that purpose. The academy, Antoon realized, had become 'a giant Trojan horse for evangelicals to get inside the military.'”

#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WarriorEthos
/31

Commenting on the Trump-Hegseth performance yesterday, Kristin Du Mez points to a passage in her book Jesus and John Wayne in which she discussewd retired colonel David Antoon's commentary on the infusion of warrior rhetoric in the military in the 2000s.

She wrote,

"Antoon identified a source of this inflitration."

#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WarriorEthos
/30

https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/catching-up

Sarah Jones, raised in a white evangelical household where James Dobson's books on child-rearing were prominently displayed and where her father followed Dobson's advice to beat her, opens her remembrance of Dobson by saying,

"About ten years ago, I created a Google alert so I’d know the moment James Dobson died."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/1

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/james-dobson-was-my-horror-and-yours.html

Finally:

"There is arguably no path to Trump without Dobson, and it begins with the broadcaster’s commitment to violence and ideological rigidity."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/4

"A childhood like mine is a personal tragedy with political dimensions. Dobson served tyranny all his life, and over time, he sought to enshrine it in the highest seats of power. To him and his heirs, the American home is a laboratory; they inflict suffering in private to better reproduce it in public."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/3

Then:

"Dobson did not hit me; my father did. But Dobson told him that he was right to hit me, that God gave him permission. That if he hit me, I would obey my parents and the Lord, and that everything would be all right because to strike a child is to love her."

And:

"Now that Dobson is dead, it is easier to see the scope of his legacy."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/2

Sarah Jones, raised in a white evangelical household where James Dobson's books on child-rearing were prominently displayed and where her father followed Dobson's advice to beat her, opens her remembrance of Dobson by saying,

"About ten years ago, I created a Google alert so I’d know the moment James Dobson died."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/1

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/james-dobson-was-my-horror-and-yours.html

"He was a leader of the 'religious right' whose every public action showed that he understood the message of the Gospels as well as I understand quantum mechanics. He was a bigot and a homophobe who encouraged more bigotry and more homophobia and weaponized it for the political advantage of American conservatism and its primary vehicle, the Republican party."

~ Charles Pierce

#JamesDobson#Republicans #evangelicals#LGBQTQ #patriarchy #homophobia #heterosexism
/3

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65862847/james-c-dobson-death-religious-right/

About Dobson's demise, Jemar Tisby writes,

"If we want a good testimony at the end of our lives, then every single day matters as to how we treat people and what we're teaching."

~ Jemar Tisby

#JamesDobson#Republicans #evangelicals#LGBQTQ #patriarchy #homophobia #heterosexism
/5

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-we-still-need-to-talk-about-slavery

"This is one of those moments when I ask all of our new Never Trump allies: Where were you people when this monster was running things? This guy, who once advised fathers to shower with their sons so they could see dad’s penis and know what it means to be a man. This guy, who wrote that fathers should hit their recalcitrant children …."

#JamesDobson#Republicans #evangelicals#LGBQTQ #patriarchy #homophobia #heterosexism
/4

"He was a leader of the 'religious right' whose every public action showed that he understood the message of the Gospels as well as I understand quantum mechanics. He was a bigot and a homophobe who encouraged more bigotry and more homophobia and weaponized it for the political advantage of American conservatism and its primary vehicle, the Republican party."

~ Charles Pierce

#JamesDobson#Republicans #evangelicals#LGBQTQ #patriarchy #homophobia #heterosexism
/3

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65862847/james-c-dobson-death-religious-right/

"It’s not surprising, then, that whole podcasts and books exist to talk about the harmful results of Dobson’s teachings. He was a psychologist who didn’t seem to comprehend what it means to be human."

#JamesDobson#Republicans #evangelicals#LGBQTQ #patriarchy #children#MaleEntitlement #homophobia #heterosexism
/2

"Discipline rooted in fear, not love, was a hallmark of Dobson’s teachings and a hallmark of his writings about children. On top of that, the way he vilified gay people helped lay the foundation for the anachronistic political beliefs of today’s GOP. He leaves an indelible stain on our politics and culture."

~ Anthea Butler, professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania

#JamesDobson#Republicans #evangelicals#LGBQTQ #patriarchy
/1

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/religious-right-james-dobson-dead-at-89-rcna226322

Then the king will say to those on his right, "come, you who are blessed by my father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world."

For I was an immigrant and you put a mask on your face, threatened me with a gun, smashed my car window, disappeared me to a concentration camp in a swamp, and fed me from dishes on the floor.

#Trump#Republicans#Jesus #evangelicals#Christians #bible #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps#MaskedThugs
/7

"But most importantly, natural disasters are a reminder to 'repent or perish,' because see point #1 about living in a fallen world."

#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/6

"The main point, says the editorial, is that natural disasters “are a result of living in a fallen and sinful world,” and that humans and the natural world itself are both cursed by original sin, so you’d better focus on getting right with Jesus. Also that extreme weather, like the rain, fall on both 'the just and the unjust,' and God’s will is inscrutable (and of course human activity like burning fossil fuels can’t affect the atmosphere)."

#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/5

"Following Hurricane Helene last fall, the 'Standing for Freedom Center' explained that the death and destruction of a natural disaster must be understood through 'sound Christian doctrine,' which is why no one should think that the hurricane had anything to do with 'climate change,' which isn’t real, and is in fact 'a fabricated crisis that is weaponized by the global elites.'”

#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/4

Doktor Zoom explains why, in Texas, getting politicans to enact legislation assuring that summer camps for children (many of them church-based) are safe is an uphill climb:

"For a lot of fundagelical Christians, taking care of each other is something people should only do on their own, because God wants government to be very, very limited."

#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/3

https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-texas-could-require-less-drowny

"There was a reason I wasn’t taught the history of the Bible or U.S. empire: Christian Zionist theology crumbles under the weight of fact and history. But in order to fully leave that world behind, I had to physically leave, get an education, and meet people who were different from me."

#Israel #evangelicals#Zionism #bible#Trump#Gaza
/2

"[Growing up in an evangelical household in Texas,] I learned that Christian Zionists have little interest in actual, living Jewish people; they treat Jews as pawns on the way to Christians’ spiritual blessing or instrumental to the fulfillment of ancient prophetic texts. It took years to see this ideology for what it really was: supremacist and nationalist."

~ Sara Gabler

#Israel #evangelicals#Zionism #bible#Trump#Gaza
/1

https://truthout.org/articles/the-christian-zionist-view-of-foreign-policy-is-holy-war/