It's in the Code ep 157: “Love Is Love, Pt.3”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 800-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Does Allie Beth Stuckey struggle with the temptation to exercise “toxic empathy?” In this episode, considering her opposition to marriage equality, Dan suggests that she does. How does she respond to this temptation? What does this response show us not only about her, but about high-control American Christianity? How does it illustrate the ways in which high-control religion invariably masks exercises of power and authority as “love”? Check out this week’s episode to find out. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AXIS Moondy
0:07.0	AXUS Moondy Welcome to It's in the
0:30.2	A series is part of the podcast, Straight, White American Jesus.
0:33.6	I am Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought of Landmark College.
0:38.1	Pleased to be with you, as always.
0:40.6	As always, I just want to say thank you for listening.
0:43.1	Thank you for supporting us.
0:44.8	This series in particular is driven by you, and please keep the ideas coming.
0:50.0	Comments, feedback, ideas for new episodes, ideas for new series, ideas for new books I need to
0:54.8	talk about. Thoughts about the episodes that have come out thus far. Welcome all of them. Daniel Miller
1:00.8	Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com. Best way to get information to me. I also do check
1:08.2	in the Discord for those of you who have access to that. So thank you to all
1:14.8	of you who keep the ideas coming. And in particular, thank you to our subscribers. You help us do so
1:19.9	much, not just in this series, but the rest that we do with the weekly roundup and the interviews
1:24.4	that Brad does and all the other things. So thank you so much.
1:28.6	Want to dive in here.
1:30.0	We are continuing our exploration, our deep dive into our deconstruction of, whatever you want to call it,
1:38.9	our exploration of the attack on empathy that currently defines part of the cultural discourse on the right,
1:46.3	the religious right, political right, what have you. And we've been doing this for a while.
1:50.4	We've been doing so by taking a deep dive into Alliebeth Stuckey's book, Toxic Empathy,
1:55.1	where she argues that everything that's wrong with American society coming from the woke
1:59.2	left boils down to toxic levels of empathy.
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