The God Squad + Jonathan Metzl Revisited
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
John revisits a group discussion about religion with author and former pastor Keith Giles; author, poet, spoken word artist, and former pastor Desimber Rose Wattleton; and writer, theologian, and permaculture enthusiast Dillon Cruz. They chat about the rise of Christian Nationalism. Then he interviews Jonathon Metzl who is Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, and he is also Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. They discuss his book "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland".
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| 0:00.0 | This is serious XM progress. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Fugel saying this is serious XM progress. |
| 0:13.4 | We're at 866 997 4748. |
| 0:16.7 | Okay, two-thirds of our panel is assembled, so let's get to it. |
| 0:19.7 | We are so lucky to have the God Squad joining us every Wednesday. |
| 0:24.0 | Three theologians I learn a lot from and I'm very entertained by, but especially this week because |
| 0:28.6 | this is the week that PRRI is put out their big American values Atlas and it shows for the first time how you can |
| 0:36.4 | estimate support for Christian nationalism in all 50 states. |
| 0:40.6 | It's a huge study over 22,000 adults and it shows a lot of interesting results. |
| 0:45.0 | Some might surprise you, some might not, but roughly 3 and 10 Americans qualify as Christian nationalism adherence or sympathizers. |
| 0:53.6 | Three in 10, and then residents of red states, |
| 0:57.2 | it's much, much higher. |
| 0:58.6 | Nearly four in 10 residents of red states |
| 1:01.6 | are Christian nationalists. |
| 1:03.0 | And of course, on the whole, Christian nationalism is strongly linked to Republican Party affiliation and holding favorable views of Donald Trump. |
| 1:11.0 | And it's linked to, well you already know, Christian nationalism, |
| 1:15.6 | it means that they believe the government should declare America a Christian nation and |
| 1:19.3 | that our laws should be based on Christian values, but not the teachings of Jesus, just his fan club's favorites. |
| 1:26.0 | And they say that if the U.S. moves away from Christian foundations, we won't have a country |
| 1:29.6 | anymore, that being Christian is part of being truly American and that God is called Christians |
| 1:34.6 | to exercise Dominion over all areas of American society. |
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