The Orange Wave, Ep. 6: Non-Biblical Christian Manhood

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Since the mid-twentieth century, evangelicals and others on the Religious Right have looked to Hollywood, rather than the Bible, to construct their visions of "cowboy masculinity." It started with John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, then moved to Mel Gibson and others. On the political side, tough guys like Barry Goldwater and Donald Trump were favored over more reflective leaders like Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. Conservative women, such as Phyllis Schlafly and Maribel Morgan, provided the tools to construct a corresponding submissive femininity. The militant masculinity of the Religious Right is a key component to their love for strongmen leaders, willingness to engage authoritarianism over democracy, and desire to return the country to a white Christian patriarchy. This episode features an interview with Dr. Kristin Kobes du Mez, the author of the new book: Jesus and John Wayne: How Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation." 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	As evangelical teenagers in the youth group at Rose Drive Friends Church, my comrades
0:57.2	and I did not watch our rated movies with sex scenes.
1:00.6	We even avoided shows with curse words.
1:03.5	We certainly didn't get to watch the genre of teenage comedies, where a group of youth
1:07.7	goes on a hilarious journey to prom, marked by experiments with drugs, rebelling against
1:12.9	parents, public pranks, and virginities lost in the backseats of old station wagons.
1:19.2	That kind of content was sure to prevent us from remaining sexually pure and walking
1:23.5	closely with God.
1:26.0	Instead, the girls in the youth group were prescribed that princess bride and select
1:30.7	romcoms.
1:32.4	Love was the currency they were taught to invest in.
1:35.6	The boys, by contrast, watched adventure flicks, with heroes saving countries and
1:40.0	brides from destruction at the hands of an evil tyrant.
1:43.9	By far Mel Gibson's Braveheart was our favorite.
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