Dig: Jesus and John Wayne w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Dan interviews historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez on her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. "Having replaced the Jesus of the Gospels with the vengeful warrior Christ, it’s no wonder many came to think of Trump in the same way."
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| 1:14.9 | Welcome to the dig a podcast from Jack the magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting |
| 1:21.2 | from Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1:23.9 | Outside observers and critics confronted white evangelical support for Donald Trump as a puzzle to be solved |
| 1:30.5 | But where many saw hypocrisy my guest today |
| 1:34.2 | Historian Christian Cobis Dumet identified a number of continuities |
| 1:39.7 | Trump she shows was exactly the man many evangelicals had been waiting for |
| 1:45.4 | Dominion sexist and celebrating violence against myriad others |
| 1:51.0 | Trump was the very sort of patriarch who had for decades been idealized in mass market evangelical culture |
| 1:58.9 | From John Wayne to Donald Trump quote the affinity was based not on theology |
| 2:04.2 | But rather on a shared masculine ideal. It became a creed that preached a quote |
| 2:10.3 | Mutually reinforcing vision of Christian masculinity of patriarchy and submission sex and power |
| 2:18.0 | Power to be exercised in the home church nation and across a world dominated by us empire |
| 2:26.3 | By 2016 |
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