An Asian American Apostate Tells All

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Brad interviews writer Scott Okamoto, author of Asian American Apostate, his wry and ironic story of leaving religion while teaching at an evangelical university. Okamoto’s often-chilling accounts reveal that such schools, where prayer and trite theological debate erupt in any lecture, demonstrate anything but higher education. Stories range from a classroom declaration against interracial marriage because it causes painful pregnancies, to grading a paper entitled, “Why Obama Is a Nazi,” and to the times Okamoto, a popular teacher, was disciplined by school officials for keeping standards for writing. Okamoto’s personal reporting gives you the inside story of how America’s evangelical schools encourage not a life of the mind but White cultural power. More than that, you’ll see how Okamoto found clarity about who he was not, and who he was coming to be. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Asian American Apostate: https://www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/asian-american-apostate/ Merch: BUY OUR NEW Come and Take It and Election Affirmer ! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 To Donate: venmo - @straightwhitejc https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an irreverent podcast.
0:03.7	Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.
0:23.3	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:25.3	My name is Brad Donishi, faculty at the University of San Francisco.
0:28.3	And I have today someone who I'm so excited to get to talk to.
0:31.3	Someone I actually kind of talked to all the time,
0:33.3	but I get to talk to you on on the mic at this point.
0:36.3	And that is Scott Okamoto.
0:38.3	So Scott, thanks for being here.
0:40.3	Thanks for having me.
0:42.3	You just try to behave.
0:45.3	You say that every time I see you.
0:47.3	You just launched your book, which is out with Lake Drive Books and our friend David Morris.
0:52.3	And the book is called Asian American Apostate,
0:54.3	Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University.
0:58.3	And I want to just stop and say,
1:02.3	you know, these interviews that I do are usually pretty focused.
1:05.3	You know, I want to keep these interviews,
1:07.3	ones where people, they hit play and they're listening to a journalist scholar,
1:12.3	writer like you talking and there's not a lot of filler in there and stuff.
1:16.3	But I'm going to just stop here and say,
1:18.3	I get to interview a lot of people and I'm really blessed that way.
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