Biblical Commas? On Controlling Textual, National, and Physical Bodies

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Last weekend theologian and former head of the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Owen Strachan tweeted that taking away even one comma from the Bible would demean it. This let to a Twitter storm and many folks pointed out the misguidedness of attributing things like commas to the original composition of the biblical texts. Brad digs deeper into this controversy to show how Strachan's approach to the biblical textual body lines up with his complementarian theology and his White Christian nationalist approach to social justice and history. Strachan's comments on 'biblical commas' are easily debunked. There is no historical case for them. The deeper question is what such rhetoric does for him and other biblical literalists. Strachan is clearly someone who wants to control borders and bodies. His theology of gender, marriage, and family is based on a strict patriarchal order. His new book resists any examination of the American social body's structuring, labeling "Whiteness" an imaginary category. Read in this context, the "biblical comma" tweets reflect a desire to put clear borders and boundaries around the biblical text just as he has sought to do with marriage, family, and the nation. For him, the Bible is scary if it offers permeable categories and ambiguity; complex texts and difficult histories. Instead, a fortified virginal text protected from any intrusion. A wall built around Scripture in order to make it--or keep--it sacred. This, as a whole, is a theology of fear. 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/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an irreverent podcast
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0:21.8	All right, Dan we have to tell some folks about some very exciting things coming up for straight white American Jesus
0:27.1	So in August, I'm going to be launching and I know you'll be part of it to our
0:32.7	Masculinity after purity culture series and that's going to be in our patreon and so purity culture is something that both of us
0:39.0	Experienced and went through I know a lot of folks out there have as well
0:42.2	It was harmful am I right? Dan that you had a pledge card at the very first true love weights?
0:47.6	I believe I did yeah people studied true love weights and they went to the national mall and DC and put in all the cards
0:53.5	I believe that one of my cards was there
0:56.5	And I think I think it's a good series as you say we talk about purity culture. It's talked about a lot
1:01.5	But there has been I think a gap of what it means in relation to masculinity and for men and boys coming through purity culture
1:08.3	And that's something I think we're really going to try to hit as we talk about so that's launching in August
1:13.0	It's very exciting going to be on our patreon in September
1:16.3	We're going to be having our very first straight white American Jesus seminar
1:20.6	So if you would love to take a class from professor Dan Miller or professor Brad O'Neeshy
1:24.9	This is your chance. We're going to be talking about a pure America religion race and nation
1:29.8	We're going to be looking at white Christian nationalism and how
1:34.1	White Christian nationalists try to create a
1:38.0	Social body in this country that is straight white patriarchal native born and so on and so forth
1:43.4	It'll incorporate so many things we talk about on this show purity culture is one of them
1:48.3	Christian nationalism is another but we'll get into the weeds with some things that we don't always have time with on our shows
1:54.8	The ways that white evangelicals were the the foremost proponents of pro-slavery
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