Christian nationalists are in the news again, although still not nearly enough, because CNN recently did a profile of Doug Wilson. He is a proponent of Christian reconstructionism, hyper-patriarchy, and setting up a theonomic state. Wilson has long been on the radar of Christian historians and other researchers of Christian nationalism. His views, like those …
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Let’s talk about cherry picking the Bible
As a progressive theologian I get accused rather often of cherry picking the Bible. The people who level this accusation at me typically do so because I am so vocal about social justice and in my support for the LGBTQIA community. These conservative Christians claim that because I say that being LGBTQIA is neither a …
The ‘Dangerous D’s’ of American fundamentalism
Fundamentalism is dangerous. It does not matter if it is Christian fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism, Jewish, Muslim, or the atheistic fundamentalism like that which was espoused by Chairman Mao. Fundamentalism is dangerous because of the propensity to create "in" and "out" groups based upon a person's adherence to or rejection of the fundamentalist dogma espoused by …
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The Tattooed Theologian 