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Sounds a LOT like the book, "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation ". It's relatively short, easy to see and paints a clear picture of their viewpoint.

Great question, I’m interested in this as well. “Jesus and John Wayne” was an excellent read somewhat related to your question. A good book of reflection on how we’ve gotten to where we are today.

If you weren't paying attention during the 70's when the SBC took over the GOP, or during the Tea Party days, or the rise of Trump, a great book to get into is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Well worth the $10 at Amazon.

Another great book on the subject - specifically focussed on the evangelical wing that has been most engaged with politics - is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Highly recommend the book Jesus and John Wayne it helped me understand my upbringing in a conservative evangelical context, the book talks about how the same trends effected Catholics too. In short there’s not theological or ethical basis for the particular variant of conservatism we have the US being tied to Christianity. Instead it’s a mixture of anxiety over changing views on race and gender along with a concerted effort by fiscal conservatives that tied Christianity to the Republican Party in America.

I'm halfway through a great book about religion & politics in the US, that has an extended section about how the evangelical Right has coopted the whole concept of 'family values' as it pertains to US politics: 'Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation'. And yes, it delves deep into how their definition of 'family' is a very delineated (and very white) one.

A+ read for anyone who wants to understand that deep thread that has been running through US politics for the last 50 or so years..

I'm halfway through a great book about that subculture: 'Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation'. A+ read for anyone who wants to understand that deep thread that keeps running through US politics.

An excellent, excellent book that dives deep into this phenomenon is Jesus and John Wayne, by Kristin du Mez. Basically, Christian leaders found it significantly easier to enforce patriarchy and consolidate personal power by elevating highly masculine stereotypes and celebrating men such as, well, John Wayne. This put them in natural alignment with many conservative political circles, allowing a very cohesive political bloc. The fact that these masculine stereotypes often run contrary to Jesus's own teachings while also being harmful to many average Christian men isn't a concern to those pushing the masculine narrative. Rather, because the stereotypes help aggregate material power, the theology behind those stereotypes can simply modified to fit them.

This is why wildly toxic pastors like Mark Driscoll can continue to find influence and audiences. The poison of his rhetoric aren't sources of shame to such men; it is, in fact, the source of their power.

He’s the product of decades of Christian Right propaganda. Kristin Kobes Du Mez does a marvelous job of documenting the history of the Christian Right in Jesus and John Wayne. I grew up in that world and recognize almost every name in that book and even then it was eye-opening.

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While the focus is more on Trump than basement dwellers, this is a great history of the relationship between the right and evangelicals.

I just read a fantastic book by Kristen Kobes Du Mez, called "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation."

I can't recommend this book enough, especially for people who consider themselves Christians. It addresses the historical and present-day foundation for this kind of toxic, hyper-masculinized expression of faith and politics.

As an ex-evangelical pastor who has firmly rejected this brand of dangerous heresy, it rings true at every level.

John Wayne has ascended to sainthood for Christian Dads everywhere. Either BB is completely oblivious to this and happened to pull JW out of the air or its dog whistling to increasingly small amount of fans.

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Since everyone is saying everyone else is wrong, both you and /u/TheBlackBear are wrong (well, sort of). They (the party, not necessarily Republican voters) only care about two core things:

1. Making the rich richer.
2. Pushing white evangelical Christian nationalism.

Not everyone in the party cares equally about these two things, but those are the two core drivers that the modern Republican party are built upon. Everything else-- including all the things that /u/TheBlackBear refers to, as well as the racism, homophobia, and misogyny-- follow from those core ideals.

I'm just reading the book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation and it really does a good job of tracing both the history of white evangelical Christian nationalism and shows the effect that they have had and are having on our national policies. Their ultimate goal is to make the US a Christian theocracy. Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States is another good book on the subject.

While nothing these two books cover started with Trump (Jesus and John Wayne traces it's roots back to the Eisenhower administration), it's hard to truly understand the Trump presidency without understanding these forces. It's really far more terrifying then it even appears on the surface.

I recently read Jesus and John Wayne and it brought all kinds of flashbacks from growing up in Baptist churches.

Well you're just gonna love the name of it then

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-John-Wayne-Evangelicals-Corrupted/dp/1631495739

Here is a brief overview.

If you wanna go for a deep dive, this book provides a historian’s look at the history the religious right. I’m still reeling from it, though I don’t know if it would be as interesting to those who didn’t grow up in that world.

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-John-Wayne-Evangelicals-Corrupted/dp/1631495739

Jesus and John Wayne: How white Evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-John-Wayne-Evangelicals-Corrupted/dp/1631495739

https://www.amazon.ca/Jesus-John-Wayne-Evangelicals-Corrupted/dp/1631495739

Made me happy to see them cite Kristin Dumez - @kkdumez multiple times in this one. For anyone raised in fundamentalist evangelicalism in the US, Jesus and John Wayne is a required purchase.

I take it you haven't read Jesus and John Wayne.

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It's White Evangelical Christianity. It's exactly what they want.

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-John-Wayne-Evangelicals-Corrupted/dp/1631495739

Yep, these two books should be required reading:

Jesus and John Wayne

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Moral Politics

The resource sticky has a phenomenal list of books!

That said, my suggestion is Jesus and John Wayne - it is like THE book study book of the last few months, and is just exceedingly relevant right now. I think it's just right for what you're looking for - very much about Christianity, relatable to modern life, and not overly academic.

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-John-Wayne-Evangelicals-Corrupted/dp/1631495739

Evangelicals discarded the Prince of Peace persona as too wimpy a long time ago. Jesus and John Wayne.

There is a good book about how the evangelical movement in the USA began, havent read it myself but a yt channel fundie fridays quotes it a lot

 

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Have you read Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation ? It's on tpb.

There's a great book thats just come out about evangelicalism in US politics, they had a chat with the author on NPR. Once interesting tidbit was the fact that evangelicals are the worst denomination by far for actually knowing and understanding theology.

The interview is here, and the book is 'Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation' by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

> I've come to see as an adult just how toxic some of the content coming out of American Evangelicalism is.

Go read Jesus and John Wayne and/or follow any deconstruction twitter or instagram accounts. There is a mountain of abuse that is starting to come tot he surface. Evangelicalism won't survive long term, or it will be relegated to the fringes of society - and the worst part is is that they'll all just claim persecution and escapism (dispensationalism) end times theology.

I’ll leave this here: always check your local library first ;) Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631495739/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_pVN7FbD9FHMZV

Looks good - here is an Amazon preview

During the Scopes Trials deciding if evolution could be taught in schools (July 1925), fundamentalism suffered defeat in the secular newspapers. Bible literalists had been crushed by the debates. Instead of changing their views, they decided to go underground and develop their own curriculum. They developed educational systems where no one is contaminated by scientific discoveries and evolution. Here is a list of the top 30 conservative Christian universities.

>Perhaps the most interesting aspect of teaching these materials will be the question, who really won in Dayton? On one hand it is evident that conservatives suffered a crushing defeat in the minds of secular newspaper editors and journalists like H. L. Mencken. They also fell into everlasting disrepute among academics, humanists, and scientists alike. To this day the term fundamentalist evokes images of bigotry and ignorance on secular and not-so-secular college campuses. On the other hand, the teaching of evolution effectively disappeared from the nation's public schools until the 1960s. And even then the fight went on. After World War II, the ranks of Southern Baptists and Pentecostals, who resisted evolutionary teachings privately if not always publicly, swelled by the millions. The rise of creation science in the 1980s, and the continuing skirmishes in the courts over those matters into the late 1990s, lend credence to Gallup polls that show that nearly half of adult Americans and one-fourth of college graduates continue to doubt Darwinian explanations of human origins. Far from being an aberration, the Scopes Trial represented one of the deepest and most persistent conflicts of modern American culture... The Scopes Trial