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from our amazing lineup of creators. Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name

is Brad O'Neishie, faculty at the University of San Francisco, our show, social partnership

with the Cap Center at UCSB. Last week I did a solo episode and talked about Christian

nationalism as the United States original purity culture, and I just want to follow up

today on that by commenting on some things that I think are related and kind of extend

that argument and that are also kind of part of our current events, things that are happening

in our ether this week and as we speak. Let me just talk about something first that

I think is actually quite important. There's a new book out, well that actually comes out

November 1st, and it's called The Case for Christian Nationalism. It's by Stephen Wolf,

who's a theologian and scholar, and it's already a bestseller. If you look at the Amazon

rankings, it's in the top 2,000 books on Amazon, which if you've ever looked at those rankings,

there are millions of books on Amazon, so to be in the top 2,000 means you're selling

a lot of books. It's the number 1 book and the nationalism's category, the number 1 book

and the church and state, religious history, category, so on and so forth. A lot of people

are buying this book, which honestly is sad and is depressing if you ask me, but nonetheless

there's a lot of interest. Well, I want to kind of just touch on the argument that I see

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