Dec 14, 2020
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868542,00.html
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http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868542,00.html
One has to imagine that for Jerry Falwell Jr., things feel very unfair right about now. For more than four years, the world of right-wing Am
https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/the-true-face-of-white-evangelicalism-has-been-exposed/
From Amanda Marcotte's article:
Trump illuminates a fundamental truth about right-wing Christianity, which is that it’s largely a cover story used to defend the otherwise indefensible.
As I argue in my book, “Troll Nation,” the true innovation of Trumpism is a kind of asshole pride, the collective conservative realization that there’s no longer any need to pretend to be moral or virtuous or even to care about other people. It’s become a time to embrace playing the role of the villain.
For the modern conservative, “triggering the liberals” by being a jerk is the highest calling, and “political correctness” is the slur directed at anyone who tries to harsh their vibe by suggesting that overt racism and sexism is uncool. Their president is a witless wannabe insult comic, and the more that Trump resorts to flinging childish insults, the more his supporters love him. Ours is an era where conservatives deliberately go to the grocery store without masks and film themselves harassing minimum-wage workers who are trying to enforce basic public health rules, so they can glory in what massive jerks they are. Their entertainment comes from crude right-wing shock jocks in the Rush Limbaugh tradition. Trolling liberals — for example, by awarding the odious Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom — has replaced pious posturing as the lingua franca of American conservatives.
In other words, the American right no longer feels any need to justify their will to power with over-the-top moralizing. Dominance has become its own justification.
Tonje Hessen Schei's political thriller, Praying for Armageddon, exposes the influence of U.S. fundamentalist evangelicals on politics and d
Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Tenets of faith and mistrust of science p
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/us/covid-vaccine-evangelicals.html
In 2019 the PreachersNSneakers Instagram account started calling attention to famous preachers and their designer clothes. Ben Kirby, the no
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/24/989331514/this-sunday-visit-preachersnsneakers-for-fashion-flexing-and-for-profit-faith?sc=18&f=989331514
From the article:
Kirby never meant to become a minor internet celebrity. But a friend nudged him into starting an account with more of that type of content. Nine days later, the PreachersNSneakers Instagram was born. It featured pictures of Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. on stage in sweat pants and a pair of Yeezey Foam Rnnrs that were going for $500; Pastor John F. Hannah sporting a $2,580 Gucci Jacket; and Pastor Steven Furtick Jr. wearing a classic pair of Jordans that cost nearly $1,000. The response was intense. Some commenters accused him of enviously attacking hard-working preachers for his own clout. Megachurch outsiders were gleeful as Kirby reinforced their opinions about celebrity preachers. And a few thought it was fun, until the account came for pastors they cared about. "Then it's, 'you used to be funny,''' said Kirby. "That's what they say, 'You used to be helpful. But now you've gone too far.'"
The aspirational approach to preaching is far from new, but it got a huge boost when sight and sound came together on television, says Marla Frederick, professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University and author of a number of books about televangelism. "At that point in time you started to see many more people performing with a kind of wealth," said Frederick. "Especially as the '70s rolled around and you saw the rise of what became the prosperity gospel." Which is the idea that if you performed the right kind of faith, and you spoke it out loud, good things would happen to you.
"So you have preachers who are telling people that you can be healed, you can be healthy, wealthy if you sacrifice, if you tithe, if you sow into this ministry," said Frederick. Of course, it helps to be the proof of your ministry. She points to Reverend Ike, the flamboyant minister who got famous in the 1970s for preaching the prosperity gospel. "He felt like Black people in particular had always been told that to be poor was to be Godly," said Frederick. "And so there was this correlation between poverty and your level of sanctification and righteousness. And he felt like that was a mindset that really needed to be broken."
Intercessors for America, a group of pro-Trump “prayer warriors” that is closely aligned with White House aide Paula White’s One Voice Praye
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-prayer-warriors-tell-him-not-to-give-up-or-step-down/
You know, they had a very effective method of dealing with false prophets in the Bible ....
Nashville Spooked About Coronavirus After Sean Feucht Brings Pandemic Preacher Tour to Tennessee
Sean Feucht took his roadshow to the Music City—and immediately earned local ire.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nashville-spooked-about-coronavirus-after-sean-feucht-brings-pandemic-preacher-tour-to-tennessee