Decoding Christo-Authoritarianism, Ideology, and Propaganda w/ Dr. Scott Coley

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Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get full access to this episode, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad Onishi converses with Dr. Scott Coley, author of 'Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right.' Coley discusses the concepts of ideology, propaganda, and legitimizing narratives within conservative evangelical communities. They explore how these elements create and maintain social hierarchies, such as those based on race and gender, and the role of 'Christo authoritarianism.' Coley emphasizes how religious resources are used to justify and perpetuate these hierarchies. The episode also addresses how questioning or resisting these beliefs is often suppressed within these communities. Buy Ministers of Propaganda: https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466004/ministers-of-propaganda/ 00:00 Introduction to Civil Rights Movement and Passive Resistance 00:51 Critique of Civil Rights Movement's Approach 01:43 Introducing Dr. Scott Coley and His Book 03:53 Understanding Ideology and Propaganda 07:48 Legitimizing Narratives and Social Hierarchies 17:26 Christo Authoritarianism and the Hermeneutics of Legitimization 25:03 Explicit and Implicit White Supremacy in Evangelicalism 35:08 Gender Hierarchies and Patriarchy in Evangelicalism 39:06 Conclusion and Premium Content Information Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi. It's start I don't know when it started but the example of it would be the
0:18.4	Civil Rights Movement with Martin with the King. I'm not gonna bash anything related to any of that or him. But his movement and the
0:27.3	civil rights movement was largely kind of this passive thing. Of course, it was active there
0:32.0	in the streets of that.
0:33.1	But it wasn't, it was more like it was passive
0:35.6	in a sense that it was a sort of performance
0:38.7	to get quite white seethedy.
0:40.5	So then people would see the hoses and the dogs barking and all that.
0:45.0	They'd have sympathy and they'd say no more and then
0:48.0	variations in.
0:50.0	So that was a, it was a path, it was like a passive in a sense that you're appealing,
0:55.0	you're not achieving it yourself,
0:57.6	you're actually doing something
0:59.2	to then get other people to do something for you in a way.
1:05.0	That's the political theologian Stephen Wolf talking about the ways that the civil rights movement was passive and not based on merit.
1:12.0	Instead it was based on merit.
1:13.0	Instead it was based on sympathy and getting others to do things for you.
1:17.0	It's not a generous way to read the courageous actions of those involved in the civil rights movement
1:21.0	in the ways they fought white supremacy by way of civil disobedience.
1:26.0	But it's indicative of a larger phenomenon, thinking of social hierarchies as justified and deserved in the eyes of God,
1:35.0	a way of living together as humans that puts some on top and some in the middle and some on the bottom because
1:40.0	that's the way God ordered it.
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