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douglas9

(4,474 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2023, 08:19 AM Jan 2023

How Southern California helped birth white Christian nationalism

(RNS) — Bradley Onishi became a Christian at age 14 when his eighth grade girlfriend invited him to a Bible study at her church in Yorba Linda, California, just south of Los Angeles. Ten years later, he would serve as its youth minister.

Over that decade, he writes in his new book, “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism — And What Comes Next,” Onishi grew to see his faith as less about Jesus and more about perpetuating a certain myth of the United States, one that he says forms the bedrock of white Christian nationalism.


Part memoir, part history of Southern California’s formative role in the rise of the religious right, Onishi’s book traces his growing estrangement from the faith he once zealously championed.

It also examines the Christian nationalist beliefs that he first encountered in Southern California but are now thought to be fueling a movement in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and in the eastern parts of Washington and Oregon, sometimes called the American Redoubt, where white Christian supremacists are building a refuge.

https://religionnews.com/2023/01/24/how-southern-california-helped-birth-white-christian-nationalism/

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The Unmitigated Gall

(4,495 posts)
2. Welcome to the desert of conservativism:
Wed Jan 25, 2023, 10:48 AM
Jan 2023

It’s not a matter of “Why do we have LGBTQ books in the library?” People are asking, “Why do we have a library?”

The “American Redoubt” is a shithole in the making.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(10,124 posts)
4. "I learned early on that it was OK to be a person of color at church, but that I should not bring in
Fri Jan 27, 2023, 09:09 PM
Jan 2023
I learned early on that it was OK to be a person of color at church, but that I should not bring in concerns and issues related to being a person of color. The best way to deal with being an Asian American was to make jokes about it.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(10,124 posts)
5. It's not a matter of "Why do we have LGBTQ books in the library?" People are asking, "Why do we have
Fri Jan 27, 2023, 09:10 PM
Jan 2023

"It’s not a matter of “Why do we have LGBTQ books in the library?” People are asking, “Why do we have a library?” That’s an indication of how far rightward some of the politics have crept."

same with Universities... it's not "why are universities left leaning.." it's "all universities must go.."

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