All The Rage Christian Pod

It's our third entry in our historical miniseries discussing the shape of the Christian right across the twentieth century. How did the Nixon years, and then the Carter years, set the stage for complete dominance of right-wing evangelicalism in US politics? And was any other outcome possible? 

Show notes: 

Billy Graham to Richard Nixon: Hitler went about it wrong but this stranglehold has got to be broken - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a94ED-eOyk&t=1s&ab_channel=NewTranscendentalist

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In this wide ranging discussion, we take a look at the recent Frankfurt Declaration, the eerie religious imagery of Trump's Q-anon rally, seminary president Al Mohler's voting instructions, and increasingly dangerous rhetoric from LibsofTikTok and her close associates targeting children's hospitals that dare to provide gender affirming services. The verdict? Things are not looking good in the world of Christian nationalism. This leads to an uncharacteristically emotional assessment of the options left to combat this rising tide. 

Show notes: 

This QAnon-flavored soundtrack to Trump, GOP’s fascist right turn should terrify you https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-qanon-music-ohio-rally-20220918.html

Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Realizes the Dream of the Religious Right https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-qanon/

Is that an OK sign? A white power symbol? Or just a right-wing troll? https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll

Twitter account Libs of TikTok blamed for harassment of children’s hospitals https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/lgbtq-threats-hospitals-libs-of-tiktok/

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The middle of the twentieth century saw a dramatic realignment of Christian cultural identity, away from the liberal enlightenment values the fundamentalists had reacted against in the 20s and 30s toward a pro-capitalist, pro-nationalist, anti-communist national identity. The avatar for this transition was Billy Graham, whose name has become synonymous with evangelism, but whose evangelistic technique was steeped in right-wing political rhetoric. In this episode we discuss some of the undercurrents and cultural influencers behind the scenes of the Billy Graham phenomenon. Note: After recording this episode, fuller recordings of the Nixon tapes (the redacted versions published in 2002, the fuller recordings being quietly deposited into the Nixon library in 2018) were brought to our attention. In these recordings, Graham expresses virulently and explicitly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. More information about these recordings is available here: https://currentpub.com/2022/09/11/billy-graham-to-richard-nixon-satan-was-working-through-the-jews-but-hitler-handled-it-all-wrong/ 

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Where did today's Christian right come from? Why does Machen always have laser eyes these days, and was he really a bigot? Why were the Victorians so surprised to discover dinosaurs existed?   

In this episode we begin laying the groundwork for understanding the  contemporary Christian right by tracking the past century or so of  development. We discuss modernism, the social gospel, fundamentalism, and the emergence of evolution as a theological and political  battleground. Some figures discussed include J. Gresham Machen, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Lyman Stewart, John Rockefeller, and more!   

Show notes:   

J. Gresham Machen: Warfield’s Views Are “Black Republicanism” by Timothy Isaiah Cho 

J. Gresham Machen’s racist 1913 letter and agenda (and a defense of Karl  Barth) by Wyatt Houtz  

"Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" by Harry Emerson Fosdick

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In another All the Rage at the Moment, we're talking about Viktor Orbán  and his guest spot speaking at CPAC in Texas. Why does the U.S. right  love this guy so much?   

A shorter episode this week, preparing for our next mini-series covering  the past 100 years of Christian far right development in the U.S.   

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[In the original upload, the last fifteen minutes were cut out of the video. Jump to 1:15:00 if you want the final segment.]

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After some banter and catching up on predictions and assessments we made on past episodes, we get down to discussing Thomas's personal history, being raised in The Way International, a fundamentalist church group that has increasingly veered into Trumpist politics in recent years.

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It's another All the Rage At the Moment, where you get our response to current events. In this episode, we discuss the Jan 6 commission hearings, as well as a number of court decisions that have been handed down this term.

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In hindsight, the authors of this statement have advanced their position more thoroughly than even their most worried critics at the time could have expected. In this episode, we continue our close reading of the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, delving into the core issues of the statement: justice, race and ethnicity, the role of women, and racism (somehow a separate entry from the one on race). Despite the incoherence and contradictions of the statement's commitments, we note the success these figures and forces have had in recasting cultural discussions more along their lines. 

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The full Statement can be found at https://statementonsocialjustice.com/

Ryan Burton King, Why I Cannot and Will Not Sign the 'Social Justice and the Gospel Statement' - https://sbcvoices.com/why-i-cannot-and-will-not-sign-the-social-justice-and-the-gospel-statement-by-ryan-burton-king/

It was a statement so far right on culture and race issues that many prominent right-wing Christians couldn't bring themselves to endorse it. Continuing our focus on recent Christian rightwing confessional doctrinal statements, Thomas and Nic Don begin to pick apart the contents of the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel.  

Show notes:

Why I Cannot and Will Not Sign the “Social Justice and the Gospel Statement” (by Ryan Burton King) — SBC Voices