309: Crybully Christians in the White House

About this episode

The episode discusses the Trump DOJ's report on anti-Christian bias, exploring themes of Christian nationalism and the intersection of politics and religious identity.

The Trump DOJ's 565-page report from the Task Force for Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias is one of the strangest federal documents in American history. It’s a crybully tome, arguing that the most powerful religious majority in the United States is its most persecuted minority. Julian examines the FACE Act allegations, the FBI-Catholic surveillance controversy, and the selective history propping up the Christian-founding thesis. Derek traces the freethinker and secularist tradition the report erases. Matthew tracks the document's most telling absence: anticommunism. From Eisenhower to Reagan, Christian nationalism always came bundled with a Soviet enemy and a defense of free enterprise and private property. But the 67% of the doc that’s about sexuality, gender, and reproductive rights shows that the billionaire Jesus class thinks the class war is over, and so all that’s left to control is the body itself. Show Notes Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism SPLC: 12 Anti-Semitic Radical Traditional Catholic Groups AXIOS: Assaults Against Abortion Clinics Rose 128% in 2021 DOJ Says Biden Unfairly Attacked Anti-Abortion Groups Is Jane’s Revenge For Real? Learn more about your ad…

People in this episode

Hosts: Julian Walker, Derek Beres, Matthew Remski

Topics covered

• Christian nationalism
• anti-Christian bias
• freethinker tradition
• sexuality and gender rights
• reproductive rights
• political history

Keywords

• Christian nationalism
• anti-Christian bias
• freethinkers
• sexuality
• gender rights
• reproductive rights
• political history
• Task Force
• FBI surveillance
• class war

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trump DOJ, Task Force for Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias, FBI, SPLC, AXIOS, Biden, Jane’s Revenge

Books & works: Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

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