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Potstirrer Podcast

101 EpisodesProduced by Jaye PoolWebsite

Where politics, religion and history collide - and it's not always polite! Political opinion podcast hosted by former political science instructor and current political observer Jaye Pool. Left-leaning yet not perfectly bound by ideology. Historical context with a dose of progressive Christianity … read more

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39 - Onward Christian Soldiers

What if the religious extremism Americans should be most concerned about comes from Christianity? In this episode, Jaye explores the authoritarian, extremist elements of American evangelicalism and the overwhelming support of Donald Trump by white evangelical Christians. Jaye also discusses the Quiverfull movement, the increasing emphasis on authoritarianism and control within evangelical Christian colleges, dominionism, racial reconciliation, evangelical support for Donald Trump's inhumane policies, and parallels between right-wing evangelicalism and ultra-conservative Islam.

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Citations:

Boorstein, Michelle, and Julie Zauzmer. 2018. "White Evangelical Christians Fail to Condemn Family Separations at US Border." The Independent. June 20. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-evangelical-christians-trump-us-mexico-border-families-separation-a8407776.html (October 21, 2018)

Bort, Ryan. 2018. "Why Trump Will Never Lose Evangelical Support." Rolling Stone. August 29. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-evangelicals-716947/ (October 21, 2018)

Cox, Daniel, and Robert P. Jones. 2015. "Deep Divide Between Black and White Americans in Views of Criminal Justice System." Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). May 7. https://www.prri.org/research/divide-white-black-americans-criminal-justice-system/ (October 21, 2018)

Frey, William H. 2018. "The US Will Become 'Minority White' in 2045, Census Projects." The Brookings Institution. March 14. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/ (October 21, 2018)

Garrison, Greg. 2018. "Why Evangelical Christians Support Trump." AL.com. August 29. https://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2018/08/why_evangelical_christians_sup.html (October 21, 2018)

Gjelten, Tom. 2018. "Christian Colleges Are Tangled In Their Own LGBT Policies." National Public Radio. March 27. https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/591140811/christian-colleges-are-tangled-in-their-own-lgbt-policies (October 21, 2018)

Green, Emma. 2017. "A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention." The Atlantic. June 14. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-southern-baptist-convention-alt-right-white-supremacy/530244/ (October 21, 2018)

Johnson, Andre E. 2018. "The Fallacy of Racial Reconciliation." Patheos. March 16. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rhetoricraceandreligion/2018/03/fallacy-racial-reconciliation.html (October 21, 2018)

Joyce, Kathryn. 2006. "Arrows for the War." The Nation. November 9. https://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war/ (October 21, 2018)

Lenoe, Matthew. 2018. "Right-Wing Warnings Pose Far More Danger to America than Left-Wing Violence." The Washington Post. September 28. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/28/right-wing-warnings-pose-far-more-danger-america-than-left-wing-violence/?utm_term=.fe6b1724095b (October 21, 2018)

Masci, David. 2015. "Compared With Other Christian Groups, Evangelicals' Dropoff is Less Steep." Pew Research Center. May 15. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/15/compared-with-other-christian-groups-evangelicals-dropoff-is-less-steep/ (October 21, 2018)

Mutz, Diana C. 2018. "Status Threat, Not Economic Hardship, Explains the 2016 Presidential Vote." PNAS. May 8. 115 (19) E4330-E4339. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/04/18/1718155115 (October 21, 2018)

Peters, Stephen. 2017. "Trump Administration Explains Vote Against United Nations Resolution." Human Rights Campaign. October 3. https://www.hrc.org/blog/trump-admin-votes-against-resolution-condemning-death-penalty-for-same-sex (October 21, 2018)

Stroop, Christopher. 2018. "Authoritarian Christianity, Or, What Franklin Graham Really Means When He Equates Progressivism with Godlessness." Not Your Mission Field (blog). May 30. https://chrisstroop.com/2018/05/30/authoritarian-christianity-or-what-franklin-graham-really-means-when-he-equates-progressivism-with-godlessness/ (October 21, 2018)

Stroop, Christopher. 2018. "Want to Know the Future of 'Trumpvangelicals' in America? Look at Their Colleges." Playboy. September 25. https://www.playboy.com/read/want-to-know-the-future-of-trumpvangelicals-in-america-look-at-their-colleges (October 21, 2018)

Thomson-DeVeaux, Amelia. 2018. "Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation." FiveThirtyEight. June 21. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-rank-and-file-evangelicals-arent-likely-to-turn-on-trump-over-family-separation/ (October 21, 2018)

Wong, Janelle. 2018. "This is Why White Evangelicals Still Support Donald Trump. (It’s not economic anxiety.)" The Washington Post. June 19. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/06/19/white-evangelicals-still-support-donald-trump-because-theyre-more-conservative-than-other-evangelicals-this-is-why/?utm_term=.6aa6ec7efe64 (October 21, 2018)

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