Bradley Onishi
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Prof. of Religion. Founder: Axis Mundi Media & @IRMCEorg . Co-host @StraightWhiteJC . Find me: NYT, HuffPo, NBC, RS, Fresh Air, MSNBC, BBC. 4th Gen Laker fan.
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The definitive deep dive on the Appeal to Heaven flag.
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By time you’re 40 you should have home Ibuprofen, car Ibuprofen, and work Ibuprofen.
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We’ve been analyzing the toxicity of White Evangelicalism for decades and they just tweeted it out:
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Know who else flies the Appeal to Heaven flag now? Nazis.
E.g., here you see the Appeal to Heaven flag, a Revol. War symbol repurposed by NAR apostle Dutch Sheets to be a key NAR prophecy & Christian nationalism symbol (these flags were everywhere on January 6th), being flown by Oregon neo-Nazis alongside the Nazi Sonnenrad flag. 10/
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Why is abortion an effective way to create single-issue voters? Because abstract compassion for “the unborn” is easier than the messy love for those killed by the police, or the homeless, or the sick. Evangelical love is ad hoc; selective outrage masked as holy indignation.
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Killing half a dozen Asian women and attributing it to sex addiction, not racism, is Christian nationalism in a nutshell:
"Purity culture made me feel bad about my sexual needs, so I eliminated the temptation. What does race have to do with that?" (Hint: everything)
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If you spent a week on Maui at some point & experienced the aloha of the people & place, instead of posting your honeymoon pictures & telling us about your memories, go give to the Maui Mutual Aid fund or another reputable place. This is about local lives & livelihoods, not you.
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Mike Johnson, second in line to the presidency, flies a symbol of insurrection and violence outside his office. It is a window into his religious extremism.
@TaylorMatthewD
and I wrote about it for
@RollingStone
:
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Remember when Trump tear gassed peaceful protesters for a Bible photo op? Remember that when you watch what's happening at the Capitol.
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Them: Y’all talk about Christian nationalism too much. Move on.
Me: ⬇️
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It's my last day as Skidmore faculty. Thanks to the friends and students who made my time at Skidmore enjoyable, rich, and full of laughter. It wasn't all fun, however. In case you're interested, here is the resignation letter I submitted to the Dean:
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Today is Loving Day and this bi-racial American is thinking about how White Christian nationalism is the original purity culture and the fact that White folks feared mixed race people so much that the Loving case was decided three years after the Civil Rights Act.
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As a Californian it'd be easy to dunk on all the Texas politicians who arrogantly decried our state during rolling blackouts and fires this summer. But I'd rather say: Texas friends we have different experiences, but we know this is tragic and traumatizing. Hang in. We love you.
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“Let’s move on” is the slogan of a Whiteness so addicted to power that any reckoning with the past or present is a threat to its homicidal project.
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Job's kids would like a word.
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I was glad to see
@jackmjenkins
article on N. Idaho and Christian nationalism
@RNS
and today at
@washingtonpost
. I knew it was coming because we spoke on the phone for two hours about his idea for the piece. But as I read it, something didn't sit right.
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So many men have been on this planet for 50 or 60 years and are still 12 years old.
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Pre-orders for my book Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism -And What Comes Next are now live!
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Men would rather attack Simone Biles (or any woman) than go to therapy. It’s both dangerous and humiliating.
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The White in “White Evangelical” has always been the most important part. It drives the ship. The car says Christian on the side, but the engine runs on racism, xenophobia, and nationalism.
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Somehow a show by two professors run out of my storage closet, with no outside funding at all, is ranked here on the USA Politics charts. Thanks to
@TaylorMatthewD
@MoslenerSara
@KwongLucas
@RSokamoto
and everyone else who makes the show possible:
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If you need a primer on the Appeal to Heaven flag, this is our award-winning podcast episode on it:
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee, already a convicted fraudster and sexual abuser, now a 34-time felon.
Christian nationalists:
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This is not a provocative flag. It's a flag symbolizing Christian revolution. It's used by extremists.
@TaylorMatthewD
and I wrote about it here in an award-winning piece:
The Alitos flew a flag closely associated with the Jan. 6 insurrection at their beach house, apparently for months …
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ANNOUNCEMENT! Happy to finally spill the beans that I have signed with
@broadleaf_books
to write a book on White Christian nationalism and MAGA Nation! Many of you have supported me in so many ways over the last couple of years. Thank you for helping make this happen!
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In every interview and talk I give people ask what’s next for this country. I am afraid what is happening in Tennessee right now is a clear preview.
Tonight as Tennessee House Republicans push forward to schedule vote on our expulsion, Speaker Sexton orders the gallery cleared as crowd chants “fascists.”
Media forced out at as well.
Then, Rep. Lafferty (R-Knox) pushes me and grabs my phone.
This is a sad day for Tennessee.
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This week the Texas legislature worked to pass a law to post the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Because they legislate issues they want to change. They send thoughts prayers for things they don’t care about - like kids dying.
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Amazing how many emails you get telling you to die a slow death when you criticize Christian nationalists.
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No idea why Trump is in DC tonight, but happy to report that my interview with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg,
@TheRaDR
, will drop first thing tomorrow morning.
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This is a
@C_Stroop
appreciation post. Chrissy’s eloquence, anger, and resolve make me and so many of us in this world better.
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Being 40 means I’ve spent 20 years in the fuck around century and 20 in the find out century. It’s weird.
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It’s real! Thanks again to
@DavidRMorris
,
@ValerieWZ
, and the team at
@broadleaf_books
who helped bring this project to life. And to all the
@StraightWhiteJC
guests who taught me so much. I love you all.
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If anyone has the Focus on the Family update condemning me send it my way. Have not seen it yet. Need to frame and hang on the wall.
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Intellect of the American Right in action folks:
"Things are Satanic because they seem that way to me."
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I am a former Christian nationalist who converted in a White megachurch. I lived through the training and the battles. Make no mistake, our democracy is in peril. I chronicle it all here:
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Some exciting personal news 📢 - I recently founded the Institute for Religion, Media, & Civic Engagement
@IRMCEorg
, a 501c3 whose mission is to develop reliable and relevant media on the promises & threats religions pose to democracy.
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He should not be allowed on the ballot. The 14th Amendment prohibits it. This is how we adjudicate J6 - if you tried to overthrow our government, you don't get to try to lead it. Without that message for him & Trump and anyone else, J6 will continue as the new Lost Cause.
Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man known as the “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Libertarian candidate in the battleground state’s 8th Congressional District.
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The faces of the boys in these videos are always marked by smug glee. Comfortable power brokers mocking anyone who challenges the system that cradles them. It’s never determination. Or resilience. Or heartfelt belief. Just the glee of impunity and privilege.
PROUD AMERICANS: Anti-Israel agitators silenced as Ole Miss students gather to sing the Star Spangled Banner.
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My wife’s aunt called a tortilla “taco bread.” I did not know this level of whiteness was possible.
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I know I might get a troll army or two sent my way because of this, but I think it's important. There's a new book dropping next week called "The Case for Christian Nationalism" by Stephen Wolfe.
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Man who says his worldview is “the Bible,” attends boss’s trial for sleeping with a porn star, cheating on third his wife, lying about it, paying to keep it quiet, and other godly shit.
Speaker Mike Johnson is outside Trump's trial offering a stream of lies
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Finishing up the last edits on my book, Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next! Pre-orders available in a month or so.
@broadleaf_books
@StraightWhiteJC
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“Ban books, not guns” is the outlook of a party bent toward fascism and a threat to us all.
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Manchin and Sinema would rather let kids be killed than to kill the filibuster. Could pass gun reform tomorrow. But i guess they want to keep “protecting” this democracy where we don’t even have days to grieve in between mass shootings and death. Fuck both of them.
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Christian nationalism is so potent because it uses the rhetorical umbrella of “faith” to cover the evils of xenophobia, racism, misogyny, and authoritarianism. “Christian,” in this mode is a blanket for sinister instincts and movements.
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Real leaders defend their capitols from invasions, not incite them.
⚡️Ukraine’s Zelensky posts a new video of himself and his team outside the presidential administration in Kyiv’s government quarter after rumors in Russian media that he’d fled. “We are here. We are in Kyiv. We are defending Ukraine.”
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JD is hard at work on his manifesto: Hillbilly Fascism.
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Americas greatest export is now this.
Brazil's Bolsonaro says he won't hand over presidency if there is vote fraud
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One of the things that Stewart does well here is bring out into the open that the decisions being made to prohibit gender-affirming care are not being made on the same scientific standards as other forms of care. It's because these laws are based on theology, not science.
Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on
@AppleTVPlus
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Biden: “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
This is exactly how White Christian nationalism works. If you don’t win, you use violence and calls for order to get back the country you once loved but now feel you’ve lost. It’s why WCN is anti-democratic.
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Empathy is the new purity culture - control it, monitor it, have an accountability partner, confess when it gets to hot and heavy, don't just give it away or you'll be like a used piece of gum . . .
a lot of christians are like “what if i believed the exact opposite of what jesus said”
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My wife opened my personal email and now thinks I'm having an affair with Raphael Warnock because he emails me every 3 minutes.
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Camps. He’s talking about camps.
Shawn Steel's solution to homelessness: Round up all those "zombies" and send them to "a nice area with big fences around it" in the Mojave Desert.
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“Bro, I told you national parks are nothing but woke outdoor safe spaces. Pride flag waterfalls! What happened to this country?” - discussion at Federalist staff meeting this am probably
High winds at the perfect time of day created a previously undocumented 2,400-foot rainbow waterfall in Yosemite National Park
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When abortion is your only issue, you get to deny the messy stakes of loving the born and bodied—those with melanin in their skin, minority sexualities, genderqueer expressions, immigrant parents, and non-Christian faiths. It's moral draft deferment from loving actual neighbors.
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Thinking a lot about purity culture and masculinity. If you were sexed male at birth, identify as a man, or identified as a man while in purity culture, what kind of man did purity culture try to shape you into?
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". . . God as Ultimate Masculinity — the one who dominates immoral women and eliminates outsiders. Seeing the face of the Atlanta killer is haunting. . . We often forge the divine in our own image. And sometimes the gods we create are monsters."
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A bit sad today as Twitter melts down. I have done nearly 400 episodes of
@StraightWhiteJC
because of this app. Met many amazing colleagues who have enriched my thinking. Met friends. Gone to conferences. Gone for coffee. Made a community I didn't have before. Thankful for y'all.
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Join me Friday in Costa Mesa to discuss the history of White Christian nationalism in Orange County.
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Ravi Zacharias: spas, ownership, sex workers, abuse, rape . . . now the murder of 8 people, some sex workers, at spas by a purity culture-raised Christian. Lots to unpack here.
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In 1923, Hitler staged a failed coup. It was the beginning, not the end of Nazism in Germany. And it has several uncanny similarities with the MAGA Nation Insurrection: militias, cultural resentment, authoritarian tendencies, and Christian identity. I discuss with
@Notorious_RSG
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Everything toxic about American masculinity in one tweet. Should be in a textbook.
This isn’t good sportsman ship. It’s dumb. You got this kid on the ropes and he’s rattled. Trip to Williamsport on the line. You can play pattycakes after. As far as the pitcher goes that’s your plate.
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I'm glad the spread of Christian nationalism in Idaho is getting covered. I was glad to talk to Jack about all of this at length for the piece. I did not expect it to follow my own work so closely with such little attribution to it. Maybe this feels like spilled milk . . .
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Nothing will get you blocked faster by a White Christian man than telling them they seem upset and you’ll pray for them. Like clockwork.
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I know it’s tempting to watch Senators with fancy degrees from Ivy League schools and conclude they are playing dumb for their base. As someone who has spent twenty years in the academy I can tell you they are not acting. I have met these folks at the best schools in the world.
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Pastor this Sunday:
“The world might be scared of the Delta and the Lambda, but we know the Alpha and the Omega. Can I get an amen?!”
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I am scheduled to speak at this event. The city’s refusal to allow the Metroplex Atheists to advertise is a clear violation of free speech. We need everyone to amplify this story as best as possible.
BREAKING: On behalf of Metroplex Atheists, we've just filed suit against the city of Fort Worth, Texas, over the city's refusal to allow Metroplex Atheists to advertise an upcoming educational event about Christian Nationalism
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One of the thoughts in my head over the last weeks = The American conception of freedom cannot hold. We have reduced freedom to: "I do what I want, when I want, how I want." There is also no concept that my freedom is entangled with the flourishing of others.
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We have close friends in Copenhagen. When we visit I am always so jealous: university is paid for, healthcare is universal, maternity leave is at least a year, paternity leave is standard, retirees are secure. And kids in Denmark don’t go to school afraid of being slaughtered!
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Trump just called the USPS a longtime Democratic stronghold. I mean, that's obvious. From the Karl Marx stamps to the New Green Deal letterhead. Even the logo is blue. My mailman calls me comrade every time I answer the door.
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Later today I’ll drop my interview with
@TaylorMatthewD
on Mike Johnson’s connections to the New Apostolic Reformation.
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“This was no plot designed by your classical neo-Nazis. This was a terror plot planned by those the German media refers to as “the bourgeois center”—the middle of society—not its fringes.”
@ardenthistorian
on the German coup attempt.
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In the words of Metallica: so close no matter how far.
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The right-wing trolls found our Rolling Stone article. Never seen so many helmeted cartoon avatars with in my mentions.
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Per
@C_Stroop
: When we defeat Trump we treat it as Reconstruction 2.0. Trumpism is a disease on our democracy that must be rooted out. No both sides. No coffee dates for understanding. White Christian nationalism cannot be allowed to win the Cold Civil War we are in right now.
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Feeling after being cited and condemned by Al Mohler and Focus on the Family in the same week:
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The article mentions my chapter on Idaho briefly but Jack never acknowledges that the outline of the article follows my previous reporting and research in close, detailed ways. Let me show you.
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Trump calls for protests when he's arrested.
Last lines of Preparing for War:
"J6 was not the end of a movement . . . This was not the last stand of a dying faction. It was the first violent battle in what they foresee as the coming civil war."
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Think about that next time you hear about school curricula, grooming, parents rights, and CRT. The goal has always been racial supremacy and racial purity. The discourse on families and kids is a discourse on purity. And the discourse on purity is about a white supremacy.
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“They put the Negroes in the schools and now they’ve driven God out." Rep. George Andrews, Alabama, 1962. - quoted on p. 34 of Preparing for War
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Sitting on the stoop listening to sad dad music with this one on a Saturday morning is sublime.
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I’ll be featured in a segment on Christian nationalism on
@NewsHour
tonight. Tune in if you can!
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And when you win the
@AARWeb
Journalism award for the piece
@jackmjenkins
I'll be at the bar - buy me a drink with the prize money.
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It won’t.
In February my friend
@DCEagle1
wrote a Trump conviction “would force evangelicals to wrestle with perhaps the biggest idol in their history.” A federal indictment should spur that.
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