Trump's COVID Diagnosis, the ACB "Celebration of Life," and White Evangelical Racism with Prof. Anthea Butler

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Brad speaks to Professor Anthea Butler, a captain in the Biden campaign's "Catholics for Biden" initiative, and chair of the Religious Studies department at the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss the details of Trump's COVID diagnosis and how his recklessness is fueled by four things: Prosperity Gospel positive thinking, racism, capitalism, hypermasculinity. These themes ground a conversation that ranges from Trump's lack of empathy for Americans, especially BIPOC, who have contracted the virus, his supporters' call for empathy after telling the nation that it was okay if "grandma dies" to save the economy, the conservative Evangelicals and Catholics who held a superspreader prayer rally at the Lincoln Memorial, and the belief that whiteness is a shield against the iniquities that plague other people. 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/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello and
0:15.0	welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi,
0:18.0	Associate Professor of Religious Studies,
0:19.5	Eskimor College, and I am, if you listen to this show, you know that every week I'm thrilled because I get to have a conversation with a
0:26.8	Smart insightful person and I've usually read their book or something like that today I don't know about the words that one could have to
0:34.8	express how I feel about our guests today. Somebody who's been an inspiration for
0:39.7	public scholarship in the humanities for a long time, particularly in religious studies and someone
0:46.0	who's fearless, insightful, intrepid, and so that is Dr. Anthea Butler. So, Anthea, thank you for being here.
0:54.0	Oh, wow, thank you. That kind of introduction, I mean, that's a high bar.
0:58.0	Well, well, I've seen you, well, you're going to fill it because you're you and that's how it works.
1:03.2	But let me tell folks about you.
1:07.0	Dr. Anthea Butler's Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the
1:10.4	University of Pennsylvania, sought after commentator on the BBC, MS NBC,
1:16.1	CNN History Channel, PBS,
1:18.9	basically everywhere is somebody who writes regularly on race, religion, politics, pop culture for NBC,
1:27.0	religion news service, the Washington Post, CNN, and other places.
1:31.0	Her books include Women in the Church of God and Christ,
1:33.4	making a sanctified world, which is out by UNC Press,
1:37.8	and has a very exciting couple of new projects,
1:41.0	one that is directly related to our show and that is white
1:44.4	evangelical racism the politics of morality in America. You can already
1:48.5	pre-order that on Amazon. It'll be out in March and that that is also out with UNC Press.
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