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  • White Evangelical Racism

  • The Politics of Morality in America
  • By: Anthea Butler
  • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
  • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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White Evangelical Racism

By: Anthea Butler
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
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The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power.

Butler reveals how evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since the nation's founding played a provocative role in severely fracturing the electorate. During the buildup to the Civil War, white evangelicals used scripture to defend slavery and nurture the Confederacy. During Reconstruction, they used it to deny the vote to newly emancipated Blacks. In the 20th century, they sided with segregationists in avidly opposing movements for racial equality and civil rights. Most recently, evangelicals supported the Tea Party, a Muslim ban, and border policies allowing family separation. White evangelicals today, cloaked in a vision of Christian patriarchy and nationhood, form a staunch voting bloc in support of white leadership.

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A concise explanation of how political a religious organisation has become and not for the better.

The author gives an overview of how an organisation can be used to put forward an idea that we are all different based on the colour of our skin. Sixty one years after ML King's speech "I had a dream" we don't appear to have moved much.

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Interesting and heartbreaking history

For anyone interested in the subject of the history of American evangelism and how racism is weaved into all of it - this is a fascinating read. Fascinating, while in equal measures heartbreaking and beyond frustrating. Because we, humanity, empowered the need for a religion (more like a cult) like to exist.

For a European who isn’t that familiar with its history or the consequences of the movement, this was a fantastic eye opening read. Allyson Johnson - the narrator is fantastic and made this an engaging read.

Highly recommend to anyone interested in the history of evangelism.

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