Dr. Kristin Du Mez - From Jesus to Trump

How did a suffering servant named Jesus of Nazareth lead to Christians in America electing and defending someone so opposite in Donald Trump? When and why did voting Pro Life become the main issue in evangelicalism? For all of us that see the problems with Trumpism and evangelicalism already, where do we go from here? Nate talks with Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez about her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.
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Episode 94
February 10, 2021

[@oldpossum57]

Du Mez explains the assumption of the Abortion ban movement by Fundamentalists well.
Once the leadership creates a Moral Panic, it is really hard to get people thinking rationally.
As a Canadian, I have to say I find the White Evangelical gun culture at odds with their sanctity of life professions.
So much of human behaviour makes better sense within a neo-Darwinian framework than within a Z hristian or Muslim framework.

[@Benjamin-jo4rf]

Pro life but pro death penalty, pro war, pro guns, pro fossil fuels, pro genocide, pro police brutality

[@oldpossum57]

@@Benjamin-jo4rf Well, I guess you missed out. You should have been born about 1920, in Germany, Austria, or a neighbouring country. As an SS you could have enjoyed torturing and murdering people.

[@NancyJSimpson]

Dr. Kristin Du Mez, I have a question. All of what you say is indeed awful. However, it pales in comparison to the idea that god chooses some people for heaven and some for damnation. The Calvinistic view that god capriciously creates vessels for damnation is the most odious sadistic idea imaginable. Do you believe this?

[@CaroleMcDonnell]

There is so much in Calvin's teaching that also teaches freewill.. Evangelical Americans are way more into uber Calvinism than Christians in other cultures. It's a peculiarly racial heresy because cultures in the Commonwealth, especially those that destroyed indigenous populations, tend to be uber Calvinistic. An excuse for destroying the people who can be seen as Canaanites, Amorites, Jebusites, etc.