#Evangelicals

Cheryl

charleybrown77

How often have we seen this belief that God has appointed Trump to fight evil and corruption?It can be found in different forms.Thread Whether expressed fervently from some MAGA

McJulie is writing the next book

mcjulie

I have a theory!(I have theories about everything)It's that a cognitive bias toward authority-based rather than evidence-based reasoning is an important check-off on the "are you a potential cult recruit"

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Because it's Palm Sunday and evangelicals are getting loud about the pandemic being a godly plague, we need to talk about how America was taken over by a Neo-Confederate, hypercapitalistic

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

What's happening in Israel and Gaza right now: Trump's foreign policy in the Middle East—for 4 years—was to get the Palestinians' allies to abandon them in favor of allyship with

Lisa Sharon Harper (she/her)

lisasharper

On #Reparations: Recently, I’ve watched as some white evangelicals have jumped into this conversation with talking points they heard at the dinner table or recently, on Fox News. Neither of

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Let Them Eat TweetsI just finished reading and I’m ready with a Twitter Book Report.Bonus: It explains Barr's extremism and the Barr-Trump partnership.Spoiler: Trump [and Barr] are part of

T.K. of AAK!

AskAKorean

Note the massive distrust of scientists across the political spectrum in South Korea."South Korea handled COVID-19 well because they trust the scientists" Ha! Like hell.https://twitter.com/JohnSaeki/status/1310948927634632707 The

this is me exiling

carebearscare91

A Biden/Harris ticket is far from what a lot of us wanted, but progressive disengagement from unfavorable realities won’t lead to the formation of more favorable realities. (A thread if

Aaron Siver 📌

highlyaaronic

Okay, here's a fresh Little Ol' Nobody's attempt at interpreting this "idolatry of the family in the church (and the culture?)" thing that seems to pop up again and again

Chrissy Stroop

C_Stroop

In this thread, I want to focus more on the related issue of toxic positivity, an American cultural issue that has specific evangelical expressions.Toxic positivity is a natural outgrowth of

Saoirse, Matryoshka Lesbian (She/They)

lisaquestions

This point has been made before, but the GC movement is, collectively, a fascist movement. GCs fit 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, and 14 very closely, and

Bob Stevenson

bobstevenson

So I’m working out an idea on race from a theological perspective. I‘d love to interact with some of you on this. Especially if you disagree. Here we go. I’m

Rep. Brian S. King

RepBrianKing

The revealing statistic in this story, https://n.pr/3eDReDR , is that over 70% of members of @Ch_JesusChrist voted for Donald Trump for President. The only religious group that voted for Trump in

Chrissy Stroop

C_Stroop

Closely related to the evangelical taboo on “gossip” is the intense pressure evangelical authorities put on subordinates—incl. parents on children—to be “positive.”It’s common even among those who don’t embrace the

John Schmalzbauer

OzarksWatcher

RIP, historian Donald Dayton, creative contrarian in religion and politics.https://twitter.com/CTmagazine/status/1260401883174375430 A work of history and a tract for the times, Dayton’s Discovering an Evangelical Heritage first appeared

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

All right. Trump's continued use of "invisible enemy" means we have to have a conversation about American conspiracy theories and how they're used to protect white male supremacy.Here's what I