Religion Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show

Bradley Onishi is himself a “deconverted” Christian nationalist. His new book is titled Preparing for War; The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism–And What Comes Next. On this show, he answers the puzzling question of why so many who consider

The post Christian Nationalism 2023: Power Not Piety appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Though the angry white supremacist right grabs today’s news, the truth is the Christian Left has much deeper roots in American history. According to the Reverend Quadricos Bernard Driskell, the religious left has always been part of the fabric of

The post We Know the Religious Right: Where is the Christian Left? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Since Plato’s allegory of the cave, tyrants have successfully manipulated the projected images the public sees. On January 6th, Trump told the insurrectionists they were being patriots. And they believe him. On this show, philosophy professor Andrew Fiala talks about

The post How We Passively Enable Tyranny appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

It’s been normalized. Americans who are neither Christian nor white may not necessarily feel open discrimination, but privilege underlies everyday life. The starting point is not neutral, as we’d prefer to believe. On this show Dr. Kyati Y Joshi talks

The post Pervasive Yet Invisible White Christian Privilege appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

With violence so deeply embedded into America’s foreign policy, it’s become invisible. But who does it harm more; us of them? On this show global religion teacher and author Kelly Denton-Borhaug says it is time to grow up and face

The post The Harmful Naivete of A Foreign Policy of Violence appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Anything but monolithic, the newly victorious Taliban have internal divisions and are desperately seeking stability. Many confuse the Taliban with Al Qaeda and even ISIS, but the truth is ISIS was the Taliban’s enemy, and the country of Afghanistan is

The post Now They Must Govern: Prospects for the Taliban appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Great stone monuments to the glory of war serve to silence the pain. Currently four times as many troops and veterans die by suicide as in combat. Our guest on today’s show is  Moravian University professor of religion Kelly Denton-Borhaug.

The post Veterans and Suicide: The “Moral Injury” We Don’t Want to See appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

It’s the ideal fear generator; there’s nothing more awful than child abuse. Intentionally whipping up  such fear is a tried and true tool for crushing democracy. Cosmopolitan globalism, the prospect of losing white male hetero dominance has been effectively played

The post The Global Right’s Bizarre Obsession with Pedophilia appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

There are signs of serious splits emerging in the very conservative Southern Baptist Convention, which  is the largest Protestant denomination in America. Fifteen thousand of them just completed their annual gathering to elect a new president. The least hard liner

The post Split Among Right Wing Evangelicals appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Fossil fueled fascism is not limited to the west. The roots of India’s ruling party go back to Mussolini and Nazis. Repressing minorities as they increase wealth and power of the autocratic rulers. The US is tight with Prime Minister

The post The Rise of Fascism: It’s India’s Turn appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.