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Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Some major announcements! We are now a proud partner of the Capps Center at UCSB! Capps is dedicated to ethics, religion, and public life in a way that matches up seamlessly with our approach on SWAJ. Check out their new series on indigenous religions! We begin this episode by discussing the VP debate, particularly Mike Pence as a familiar type: The White Evangelical pastor. We then discuss a cluster of issues surrounding science and COVID--Trump's use of medicines that made from aborted fetuses (a big deal to the Religious Right, supposedly), the New England Journal of Medicine's endorsement of Biden, and the general ignoring of scientific counsel on the part of the Trump administration. We also analyze Senator Mike Lee's comments that democracy is not necessarily the best form of government--statements in line with Dominionist theology and part of what Brad calls "the dangerous allure of totalitarianism." The danger of these comments was brought into stark relief when news of a kidnapping plot against Governor Gretchen Whitmer emerged. While the major media outlets won't call it what it is, we will: this was an act of homegrown White terrorism and it is related to Trump's call to "liberate Michigan!" 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	You're not going to be here. Welcome to Straight Wide American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor Religious Studies,
0:23.0	Skidmore College, and I'm here with my co-host.
0:26.2	I'm Dan Miller, Associate Professor of Religion
0:28.6	and Social Thought at Landmark College.
0:30.4	So nice to see you, Brad.
0:31.5	We didn't get to talk last week. So you know it's been a while
0:33.8	Which in like Trump world means that 6,000 things that happened in the last you know
0:38.6	Yeah, we have not we have not recorded together for two weeks and that means we have missed approximately 7,000 to 8,000 stories.
0:46.8	One thing, it's your son's birthday, so thank you for your father of the year.
0:51.2	You got up super early you're you're doing
0:53.6	presence and now you're you're out here being podcast for the year and
0:56.6	recording with me so thank you for being here.
0:58.3	Yeah give me an excuse to play with Legos today instead of doing like some some real work that I needed to do so it's an even trade off I think.
1:06.0	Yeah, yep. Well we have a bunch of huge announcements we need to make. So friends, if you're if you're listening, please, this is my time in class when I'm like, hey, I know you're not paying attention to me, so just listen up. So here's, that's what we're doing right now. Three major announcements. First, so excited. We are now an official partner with the Walter H.
1:27.0	Cap Center at the University of California Santa Barbara. So Straight White American Jesus is now an affiliate of the CAP Center.
1:35.5	The CAP Center is dedicated to the study of ethics, religion, and public life.
1:40.8	Their director is Professor Greg Johnson, and we've been talking with Greg and with the center and we could not be more thrilled to just be affiliated with them.
1:49.0	If you are not familiar with the CAP Center, check out their work. They have a great series happening right now on origin
1:56.5	narratives and indigenous religions, indigenous cultures, and they just do amazing work. I am of course a graduate of the University of
2:05.0	California Santa Barbara PhD program so for me this is somewhat of a
2:08.6	return home just to be able to to work with them so we're excited and you might be saying well hey Brad that sounds
2:14.4	great how do I check that out you can check that out on our brand new website which is
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