How Conservatives Co-Opted Christianity

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If you live in the United States, odds are you've encountered the distinctly American "conservative christian." It seems that these people, despite their fierce devotion to their faith, have no idea what the Bible actually calls them to do. In this episode, we're taking a look at how christianity was adopted and perverted by the American political Right, and how it differs from the christianity of the early church.

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Citations and Further Reading:

Statistics
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/...
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https://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/c...
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov...
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exi...

The Religious Right
https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2018/n...
Bryan, William Jennings. “The Inspiration of the Bible.” Seven Questions in Dispute, New York, 1924. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/his....
Sutton, Matthew Avery. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. Harvard University Press, 2007. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&..., 241-244.
Williams, Daniel K. God's own party: The making of the Christian right. Oxford University Press, 2012. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvini...


The Religious Left/Christian Socialism
Montero, Roman A. All Things in Common: The Economic Practices of the Early Christians. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...
Janzen, Rod, and Max Stanton. The Hutterites in North America. JHU Press, 2010. https://books.google.com/books?id=lgU..., 17.
Rauschenbusch, Walter. A Theology for the Social Gospel. New York, The Macmillan company, 1917. http://archive.org/details/theologyfo....
“The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr.” Huffington Post, January 20th, 2014, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-un....
“History of the Religious Left,” September 28, 2020. https://straightwhiteamericanjesus.co....
https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...
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