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Straight White American Jesus

SWAJ Rewind: Stand for the Flag, Kneel for the Cross

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Is the slogan, “stand for the flag, kneel for the cross” a harmless expression of the conviction that good Christians can also be good citizens? Or if we decode it, do we find that a meaning that’s much more pernicious than that? In this episode, Dan argues that this slogan is an expression of Christian nationalism, giving voice to anti-Black racism and licensing election denial and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 1000+ episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Subscribe to Teología Sin Vergüenza Subscribe to American Exceptionalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Axis Mundy Axis Mundi. Hello and welcome to the series. It's in the Code, a part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus. My name is Dan Miller, professor of Religion and Social Thought of Landmark College.

0:38.4

Pleased, as always, to be with all of you. As always, Straight White American Jesus is offered

0:43.1

in partnership with the CAP Center, UCSB. We thank them. And as always, I think all of you who

0:49.6

listen to us, who suffer through the ads that help support us, who choose to be patrons and support us

0:55.5

financially. We cannot do it without you. We thank you for that. And for this series, I think

1:00.5

all of you who continue to email me at Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com,

1:07.2

and help to give the ideas for this series. As always, I want to pick up with a theme we have for today,

1:12.9

and I am recording this on Election Day, midterm elections.

1:17.1

At the time I'm recording this, or today, brings two things to mind.

1:20.7

One is today's topic, but before that,

1:22.9

just a final reminder of our Denver event.

1:26.4

I guess not final.

1:27.3

I guess I will post next week before the

1:29.8

event, but it's coming right up just under two weeks away, a week and a half. Our live event in

1:35.8

Denver, first ever live event, you can be there in person. We'd love to see you. You can be there

1:40.2

virtually. We'd love to know that you're doing that as well. You know the information about

1:44.4

how to find it. If you go to Bradley-Onishi.com slash nationalism, the information is there. Great lineup.

1:51.5

We've been pushing it for a while. You've probably heard about that. If not, go online,

1:55.8

check it out. And we'd love to have you there, whether in person or virtually. And I know that

2:00.3

after the events today, however they all play out, we'll have some great things to talk about with a really great slate of people.

2:07.5

Having said that, let's get into today's topic.

2:10.5

As I say, today is Election Day.

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