"Wait…the Trump regime is promising to deport a million people and many of them are of child-bearing age and also pay taxes? Why would they deport folks instead of offering them $5,000 to give birth?
I think you know.
When the regime speaks of wanting a baby boom, they mean a white baby boom. They mean white moms get a check for delivering a white baby."
#Trump #women #pronatalism #BabyBonus #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"I know that abortion bans and child marriages are tied up in Christian nationalism, but they are also becoming alarmingly mainstream on the right with a wave of 'pro-natalism' and even an idea floated by Donald Trump to pay women $5,000 to have a baby."
#Trump #women #pronatalism #BabyBonus #WhiteChristianNationalism
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(continued from /9):
"who left Nazareth behind, who began his public ministry of proclaiming the kingdom of God exhibiting God's power to heal and forgive showing mercy and welcome to outcasts of all types, confronting the injustice of the power structures of his world.
And he did it knowing from the first moment that the outcome of his ministry could only be death, because, after all, that's what happens to prophets."
"From the moment he proclaimed the kingdom of God for the first time, he was doomed and he knew it and he did it anyway ...
This is what I want you to take away today: Jesus was a murdered Messiah prophet who responded to God's call on his life," (continued in /10)
"To say I'm for the kingdom of God is to say I'm against your unjust kingdom. I'm for justice. I'm for those below on the fringes, on the margins. I'm for love amid your cruelty. I'm for mercy amid your tyranny. Jesus filled it out with a ministry on behalf of the poor and the marginalized and the sick and women and children and and all kinds of people on the margins."
~ David Gushee
"To side with power, fear, and control is not of Jesus.
Jesus is problematic for Christian Nationalists because he’s saying everything they’re against very plainly. That’s why you don’t really hear a lot of quotes from the Gospels in their arguments.”
“The way of Jesus is undeniable. When you read the stories of how he lived his life and the very words he’s saying to his disciples, there’s no misinterpreting the fact that we are supposed to be taking care of the least and last, that we are supposed to be uplifting those who have been cast aside. Our role is to be with those humans who are being ostracized, othered, and villainized by those in power."
~ Rev. Shannon Fleck
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/new-faithful-america-head-challenges
"We emphasize for example that God does not show favoritism. If anything God sides with the marginalized and the oppressed. It's the mission of the church to defend the poor the marginalized, to give clothes to the to the naked, and so I believe this is at the core of what it means to follow Jesus."
Munther Isaac, a Lutheran pastor, tells Peter Beinart how the outlook of many Palestinian Christians differs from US Christian nationalism:
"I am by no mean a lone voice within the Palestinian Christian community that believes in God of justice and truth and that challenges the interpretations, mainly western Christian interpretations, that give entitlement to a certain group of people based on an ethnoreigious identity."
“'It’s not even representative of Christianity in the United States,' said Du Mez, who authored the book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.
'It’s a pretty narrow slice of rightwing, predominantly, but not exclusively, white conservative Protestantism. But that is the Christianity that Trump thinks of when he thinks of Christianity.'”
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #churches
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"The makeup of Trump’s faith office is so far 'not at all' representative of the various religions practiced in the US, said Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor at Calvin University and research fellow at the center for philosophy of religion at the University of Notre Dame."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #churches
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"The Trump administration’s promotion of white Christian nationalists and prosperity gospel preachers to key government roles will lead to the 'further dismantling of government institutions' and the chilling of free speech, experts have warned."
~ Adam Gabbatt
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #churches
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/christian-nationalists-trump-administration
"This has led to all sorts of ongoing devastating consequences for human relationships including the persistence of racism, sexism, classism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia. …
It's indisputable at this point that men and boys are both in trouble and also themselves the direct cause of many of their problems”.
~ Ibid.
#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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"This second choice, only to address that men and boys are in trouble but not to address the ways in which they're part of the problem, again often favored by conservatives, also makes a common historical era of privileging the emotional and physical needs of white Christian men and boys ahead of the emotional and physical needs of other human beings."
~ Ibid.
#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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"We want to help them make the healthier and more fruitful, but difficult, choice to relinquish some status, power, and wealth in favor of improved relationships and more equitable and loving communities."
~ Ibid.
#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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"If we only see that men and boys are in trouble, but don't address their roles in the problem, we risk infantilizing them and under-emphasizing the role of choice and agency among men and boys in choosing to step away from radicalization, violence, and brittle masculinity."
~ Ibid., p. 80
#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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This thread is a continuation of a previous one (linked below) featuring excerpts from Angela Denker's Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Minneapolis: Broadleaf, 2025). I'm starting a new thread now rather than linking to the old one, as I offer new excerpts from Denker's book.
#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114327053623993929
https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889830757/Disciples-of-White-Jesus
“The misleading depiction of Jesus as warrior, man's man—as unsympathetic, lonely, and harsh was always a caricature. That White Jesus is always eventually exposed as a straw man, an Oz shouting behind the curtain, a president reliant on spray tan and tax fraud. Jesus as he was and is offers something much more powerful and relatable."
~ Ibid., p. 78
#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #Trump
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"By offering young boys and men a window into a nonmilitant, peaceful, loving, caring, friendly, hopeful, vulnerable, needy, well-adjusted, occasionally tearful Jesus—we can offer young, white Christian boys and men a much fuller, healthier, and more accessible vision of masculinity: one that's more reflective of the wide spectrum of masculinity and femininity occupied by both boys and girls.”
~ Ibid., p. 78
#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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“Reminding young, white Christian boys and men that Jesus is not a white man forces them to take Jesus and put him into a seat often occupied by people who are oppressed and marginalized, and whose strength and power are seen more often as a deviant threat than as something to be emulated and admired."
~ Ibid., p. 77
#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #Trump
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