#1286 The Rise of Christian Nationalism
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 July 2019
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Summary
Air Date: 7/2/2019
Today we take a look at the ways in which Christians are being rallied to see themselves as the true victimized minority in America, a key component to stoking right-wing nationalism
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Rise of the Christian Taliban - The Intercept with Mehdi Hasan - Air Date 6-20-18
Mehdi Hasan is here to warn you about a growing threat to the laws and values of the United States from a group of religious extremists and fanatics.
Ch. 2: Reverse Discrimination Isn't A Thing - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 4-11-19
The religious right claims reverse discrimination in that they are being unfairly required to exist in the same world as trans people
Ch. 3: Is Mike Pence Christian? - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 4-15-19
Mike Pence argues that to be a Christian one must discriminate against gay people, prevent women from getting abortions or birth control, support tearing refugee children from their parents and prevent the working poor from having access to healthcare.
Mike Pence insists that it's the Christians who are being discriminated against.
Ch. 5: Educating and Engaging with Lyra McKee - This Way Out - Air Date 4-29-19
Lyra McKee (full TEDx talk) shares her experiences transforming lives with conversations in religious spaces
Ch. 6: Master Plan to Dismantle LGBTQ Rights - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 4-25-19
What are the LGBTQ cases heading to the Supreme Court? It's 2019 and people can be fired for not adhering to heteronormative gender ideas. Corporate, Christian, Conservative resistance is damaging and disgusting.
Ch. 7: House Passes the Equality Act - This Way Out - Air Date 5-20-19
The House passes the Equality Act in an effort to stop LGBTQ discrimination and ensuring their freedoms. GOP is pushing back with the fallacious idea that white Christians are being discriminated against.
Ch. 8: Demand the Senate Pass the Equality Act & Protect Trans Health Rights - Best of the Left Activism
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Republicans are always claiming that everything progressives do is an attack on religious liberty, even sometimes just existing by some people is seen as an attack on "religious freedom'... in the meantime, Republican speaker Paul Ryan fires a religious leader fires a Chaplain over politics?
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors, so a huge thanks to everyone who |
| 0:07.1 | contributes on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:10.3 | And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:14.9 | about the ways in which Christians are being rallied to see themselves as the true victimized |
| 0:20.2 | minority in America and how this contributes to the stoking of right-wing nationalism. |
| 0:25.9 | Clips today come from the Intercept, Boom Loyard, the Tom Hartman program, the majority |
| 0:31.6 | report, and this way out. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm here to warn you about a growing threat to the laws and values of the United States |
| 0:44.8 | from a group of religious extremists and fanatics. |
| 0:47.8 | No, I'm not referring to so-called jihadists or Islamists or to creeping sharia. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm referring to what I like to call the Christian Taliban, those Bible-thumping fundamentalists |
| 0:57.9 | who are bent on theocratizing the US government. |
| 1:01.2 | There's the Attorney General of the United States, Mueller Jeff Sessions, who wants sharia |
| 1:08.8 | law but of the biblical variety. |
| 1:11.5 | Asked last week how the Trump administration could justify separating migrant kids from |
| 1:15.4 | their parents at the border, Sessions said, |
| 1:18.4 | I would say, due to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey |
| 1:26.5 | the laws of the government because God is ordained for his purposes. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, forget all the verses in the Bible that talk of love and compassion towards the |
| 1:36.0 | less fortunate. |
| 1:37.0 | No, obey the law according to Romans 13, the same verses of the Bible incidentally that |
| 1:42.3 | we use to justify slavery. |
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