It's In the Code Ep. 56: Religious Freedom Part 1

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The language of “religious freedom,” “religious freedom restoration” laws, and so forth makes many of us uncomfortable. What does this language mean? Who deploys it? For what reasons? Where did it come from? In this first of a two-part episode, Dan explores these issues, looking at the emergence of the idea of religious freedom and how those who deploy it on today’s political and religious right have departed from its historical meaning. 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/ To donate: venmo - @straightwhitejc Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 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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0:23.2	Hello and welcome to it's in the code a series on the podcast straight wide American Jesus.
0:27.9	My name is Dan Miller, professor of religion and social thought at landmark college.
0:31.9	I am your host as always.
0:34.5	Welcome your thoughts insights input responses ideas for the series.
0:39.4	You can reach me at Daniel Miller swadge Daniel Miller SW a J at gmail.com.
0:45.1	Have been out of town some this summer and have fallen behind a little bit in the email responses.
0:50.1	I am preparing to go out of town again.
0:53.3	This time down to Puerto Rico.
0:56.5	We'll get some beach and sun and spend some time with the family, which means I will probably fall further behind in my emails.
1:03.2	But I promise I will read them I will catch up to them.
1:07.4	I will respond to as many as I can as I always do.
1:11.4	Please do keep them coming and as always can't can't do anything we do on the podcast without our listeners.
1:16.9	And certainly this series is listener driven ideas and feedback that I get from you.
1:22.8	So please keep those coming and look forward to seeing those.
1:28.8	As I say, I'm going to be gone posting this episode and then we'll post again in a couple weeks.
1:35.2	And in between those two weeks, we'll have the 4th of July.
1:38.5	And figure 4th of July is a good time to do some reflecting on some of the themes that come up a lot.
1:46.8	If you're an American around the 4th of July independence day.
1:50.8	Themes like freedom and liberty get me thinking.
1:56.6	And so I wanted to spend a couple episodes actually on the concept of religious freedom.
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