Articles for White Christians

"Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning": The push for Christian nationalism may backfire
1 week ago

"Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning": The push for Christian nationalism may backfire

Salon  

Donald Trump has promised to be a dictator on “day one” of his administration. Professor Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, told The Salt Lake Tribune, “It’s hard to overcome the white God gap…in a place like Pennsylvania or Michigan and Wisconsin.” White Christians are now literally and metaphorically Trump’s biblical "arrows" and "armor." …

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The ultimate answer to why Donald Trump won: White Christians
1 month, 1 week ago

The ultimate answer to why Donald Trump won: White Christians

Salon  

The Democratic Party, the mainstream news media and the political class are conducting a political autopsy of the 2024 election and how Donald Trump and the MAGA movement were able to easily triumph when the “conventional wisdom” suggested a historically close election. While the Democratic Party is trying to make sense of how Kamala Harris’ campaign can spend more than …

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Trump received major support from white Christians again — but added others
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump received major support from white Christians again — but added others

NPR  

Trump received major support from white Christians again — but added others Donald Trump saw continued support from white Christians, especially white evangelicals, but a huge shift in Latino Catholics helped him as well AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Exit polls show that Donald Trump again received major support from white Christians this election. Trump also made inroads with Hispanic Catholics, and …

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Trump's transformation into a religious totem turns Christian nationalism toxic
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump's transformation into a religious totem turns Christian nationalism toxic

Salon  

Public opinion polls show that 47 percent of registered voters support Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Your new polling and other work examine the role of the authoritarian personality in support for Donald Trump and his neofascist MAGA movement, specifically among white Christians. First, nearly half of white evangelical Protestants and nearly four in ten Republicans agree with the …

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"I’m a very proud Christian”: Will religion be enough to save Donald Trump?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

"I’m a very proud Christian”: Will religion be enough to save Donald Trump?

Salon  

Do you accept Donald Trump as your personal lord and savior? At the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention in Nashville on Thursday, Trump told the audience, “If I get in, you’re going to be using that power at a level that you’ve never used before… With your help and God’s grace, the great revival of America begins on …

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The relentless focus on White Christian nationalism is spreading a racist myth
10 months, 3 weeks ago

The relentless focus on White Christian nationalism is spreading a racist myth

CNN  

Story highlights Evangelicals in the US are typically depicted as White men But one in three American evangelicals is a person of color Their politics are often more progressive than those of White evangelicals CNN — It’s been called an “imposter Christianity,” a heretical faith that “sanctifies lies,” and “the most serious threat” to democracy in America. This future will …

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Trump and the cult of personality around him are part of a broader reactionary movement
1 year ago

Trump and the cult of personality around him are part of a broader reactionary movement

Raw Story  

On Wednesday, I told you about the problem of seeing the coming election as a choice between democracy and anti-democracy. “But for most of the country’s history,” Thomas went on to say, “status and resources have been distributed in accordance with a very different vision of democracy – that of America as a land of and for white Christians, where …

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The simple reason why Donald Trump is escalating his Hitlerian rhetoric: MAGA demands more
1 year, 1 month ago

The simple reason why Donald Trump is escalating his Hitlerian rhetoric: MAGA demands more

Salon  

Hillary Clinton was right — again. In his new essay, “Listen to the Cassandras," Reed Galen, who is one of the co-founders of the pro-democracy organization The Lincoln Project, summarizes these failures and surrender: Trump’s reality, after all he’s said, done, and what he promises to do in a second White House term, still haven’t awoken enough people from their …

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Unearthing racism's Christian roots: How far-right Christianity quietly fueled Jacksonville shooter
1 year, 3 months ago

Unearthing racism's Christian roots: How far-right Christianity quietly fueled Jacksonville shooter

Salon  

This weekend, a racist shooter – Ryan Palmeter – murdered three Black people – Angela Carr, Anolt Laguerre, Jr., and Jerrald De'Shaun Gallion. Keep moving through our history, and you'll see endless examples of purported Christians using the Bible for racist ends: Enforcing segregation, blocking civil rights movements, forbidding interracial marriage, creating a racist incarceration system, committing yet more acts …

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Great Replacement: The conspiracy theory stoking racist violence
2 years, 7 months ago

Great Replacement: The conspiracy theory stoking racist violence

Al Jazeera  

Roots of white supremacist conspiracy theory are not new, but experts say ‘great replacement’ has become mainstream. And this week, US President Joe Biden explicitly denounced the so-called “great replacement” conspiracy theory as hateful fuel for deadly violence. A manifesto that US media outlets linked to the accused Buffalo shooter, who authorities have said specifically targeted the area in a …

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Religion scholar Anthea Butler on "White Christianity" and its role in fueling fascism
3 years, 2 months ago

Religion scholar Anthea Butler on "White Christianity" and its role in fueling fascism

Salon  

Since at least the 1980s, the conservative movement has increasingly been governed by faith, which can be described as a belief in things that cannot be proved by empirical means. Trumpists and other Republican fascists, many or most of whom identify as Christian, have widely embraced political violence, including outright terrorism, as a necessary measure to "protect" their "traditional way …

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How changing one word in church could radically transform America (opinion)
4 years, 4 months ago

How changing one word in church could radically transform America (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jennifer Harvey is a professor of religion at Drake University. In the late 1960s, also amidst significant civic turmoil and calls for substantive transformation in the economic and political circumstances of Black life, a cross-section of Black leaders from across the nation drafted the “Black Manifesto.” James Forman, former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, brought …

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