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1/ Great to be back on @thereidout w/ @JoyAnnReid. ICYMI, key points on the extremity of near-total bans on abortion in OK & other states.:
60% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.
Consistent data across 5 decades
Via @PRRIpoll
#reiders @MSNBC
1/ Great to be back on @thereidout w/ @JoyAnnReid. ICYMI, key points on the extremity of near-total bans on abortion in OK & other states.:
60% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.
Consistent data across 5 decades
Via @PRRIpoll
#reiders @MSNBC
2/ Very few Americans say abortion should be ILLEGAL in ALL cases:
15% all Americans
15% Oklahomans
There is no state in which more than 1 in 4 support a total ban on abortion.
Via @PRRIpoll 2018 American Values Atlas.
15% all Americans
15% Oklahomans
There is no state in which more than 1 in 4 support a total ban on abortion.
Via @PRRIpoll 2018 American Values Atlas.
3/ Data doesn't support claims of a "Christian view" on abortion.
Only 2 major religious groups--white evangelical Protestants & Latino Protestants--have majority opposition to abortion.
Majorities of every other major religious group say abortion sb legal in all/most cases.
Only 2 major religious groups--white evangelical Protestants & Latino Protestants--have majority opposition to abortion.
Majorities of every other major religious group say abortion sb legal in all/most cases.
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1/ My latest:
A Lenten reflection on the weight of white Christian Innocence.
#WhiteTooLong
robertpjones.substack.com/p/moving-light…
1/ My latest:
A Lenten reflection on the weight of white Christian Innocence.
#WhiteTooLong
robertpjones.substack.com/p/moving-light…
2/ The ruptures of the last 2 years hold deeper lessons. The 2021 backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement—w/ the elevation of “white discomfort” as the def of discrimination—has revealed the biggest encumbrance of all for white Christians: insistence on our own innocence.
3/ The white American myths of innocence—staples of Trump’s rallies and rhetoric—are the mark not of a great people but of fragile egos who refuse to grow out of an adolescent naiveté. Such indignant insistence on our own innocence is a barrier to Christian growth & discipleship.
1/ THREAD:
"[White Christian nationalism] is a violent reclamation movement. If we’re going to move into the promise of a multi-religious, multi-ethnic democracy, these forces are going to have to be confronted.”
-@robertpjones
New @ThePlumLineGS
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"[White Christian nationalism] is a violent reclamation movement. If we’re going to move into the promise of a multi-religious, multi-ethnic democracy, these forces are going to have to be confronted.”
-@robertpjones
New @ThePlumLineGS
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@robertpjones @ThePlumLineGS 2/ "The evidence for white Christian nationalism’s importance to the effort to overthrow the election was right before our eyes on Jan. 6. It brought a veneer of divine blessing on the violence and the insurrection.”
-@robertpjones
New @ThePlumLineGS
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-@robertpjones
New @ThePlumLineGS
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@robertpjones @ThePlumLineGS 3/ PRRI CEO @robertpjones wrote abt the importance of paying attention to the white Christian nationalist symbols at the Jan. 6 insurrection at @RNS on Jan. 7.
#RNA2022
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#RNA2022
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BREAKING: Former President Trump leaves office with lowest favorability ratings since his 2016 campaign.
Via @PRRIpoll final favorability numbers, just released today.
prri.org/research/more-…
Via @PRRIpoll final favorability numbers, just released today.
prri.org/research/more-…
@PRRIpoll BREAKING: No sign of a white evangelical reckoning. To the end, white evangelicals stood by Trump. Even after Trump encouraged a violent riot at the Capitol, 62% hold a favorable view of the former president.
Via @PRRIpoll final favorability numbers.
prri.org/research/more-…
Via @PRRIpoll final favorability numbers.
prri.org/research/more-…
To quote an old Josh McDowell apologist book from my teenage years, by my lights this unflagging, relentless white evangelical support for Trump is the “evidence that demands a verdict.”
#WhiteTooLong
#WhiteTooLong
1/ I agree w/ @esglaude @RevDrBarber.
If we’re going to heal our nation, we must confess that the unholy alliance of white supremacy and Christianity remains, still, a troubling part of America’s political and religious heritage.
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If we’re going to heal our nation, we must confess that the unholy alliance of white supremacy and Christianity remains, still, a troubling part of America’s political and religious heritage.
religionnews.com/2021/01/07/tak…
2/ White scholars and Christian leaders, as tempting as it is, it just won't do to soothe our consciences (thereby alleviating ourselves of responsibility) by declaring what we saw yesterday to be outside the bounds of what is actually "American" or "Christian."
3/ We have to own that this white supremacist madness is part of what we've allowed to persist within our country and our faith, so that we can work, finally, to end it.
#WhiteTooLong
#WhiteTooLong
At this time in our history, when Southern Baptists especially should be reckoning with their role in legitimizing white supremacy as God’s will, they’re doubling down, insulating themselves from evidence that might lead to real repentance.
#WhiteTooLong
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#WhiteTooLong
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For shameful decisions like these, two questions: 1) Context: What’s happening that is driving such a decision now?
And 2) Power: Who benefits from such a declaration? Who’s protected? And who is made vulnerable?
And 2) Power: Who benefits from such a declaration? Who’s protected? And who is made vulnerable?
I wrote this 2 weeks ago:
"White evangelicals look to be the most powerful force hindering work for racial justice and reconciliation and efforts to achieve the promise of a multiracial democracy at this time of reckoning in our nation."
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"White evangelicals look to be the most powerful force hindering work for racial justice and reconciliation and efforts to achieve the promise of a multiracial democracy at this time of reckoning in our nation."
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10 things to know on #ElectionDay about white evangelical Protestants.
1. @PRRIpoll finds white evangelical support for Trump is as strong as ever: Among likely voters, 79% say they’ll vote for Trump; 74% favorable. No gender gap.
@PRRIpoll
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1. @PRRIpoll finds white evangelical support for Trump is as strong as ever: Among likely voters, 79% say they’ll vote for Trump; 74% favorable. No gender gap.
@PRRIpoll
prri.org/research/what-…
2. White evangelicals are declining as a proportion of the U.S. population:
21% in 2008
20% in 2012
17% in 2016
15% today.
@PRRIpoll #ElectionDay
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21% in 2008
20% in 2012
17% in 2016
15% today.
@PRRIpoll #ElectionDay
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3. Most of the new battleground states are more competitive b/c of white evangelical decline as proportion of population:
GA: 22% -> 18% (-4)
IA: 22% -> 18% (-4)
NC: 28% -> 20% (-8)
OH: 23% -> 19% (-4)
@PRRIpoll #ElectionDay
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GA: 22% -> 18% (-4)
IA: 22% -> 18% (-4)
NC: 28% -> 20% (-8)
OH: 23% -> 19% (-4)
@PRRIpoll #ElectionDay
ava.prri.org/#religious/201…
Re-upping, relevant to Trump’s #COVID19 posturing today.
"This sense of entitled safety, even invulnerability, runs silent and deep in white America.”
This attitude, cultivated in the soil of white supremacy, is a threat to public health. 1/3
#WhiteTooLong
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"This sense of entitled safety, even invulnerability, runs silent and deep in white America.”
This attitude, cultivated in the soil of white supremacy, is a threat to public health. 1/3
#WhiteTooLong
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White supremacy has historically done much to protect white Americans' interests and lives at the expense of others. But the sense of invulnerability that it has inspired is a delusion, produced by generations of injustice. 2/3
Today, the legacy of white supremacy is leaving many white Americans unable to see the imminent threat of a virus that is oblivious to their expectations of safety and unable to act in ways that will protect not just themselves but the country. 3/3
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A Christian fundraising site has collected >$200k for Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense.
This is no coincidence.
That this is possible today is a reflection of the ways white supremacy has infected white Christianity. #WhiteTooLong.
@RNS story here:
religionnews.com/2020/08/29/chr…
This is no coincidence.
That this is possible today is a reflection of the ways white supremacy has infected white Christianity. #WhiteTooLong.
@RNS story here:
religionnews.com/2020/08/29/chr…
@RNS @ReligionReport reporters, unless I missed it, we still don’t know anything about Rittenhouse’s own religious background and what role that played in his life and motivations. Anyone working on this?
@RNS @ReligionReport In #WhiteTooLong I unpack the long history of entanglement between white supremacy & American Christianity, including how it animated the worldview of white violent extremists like Dylann Roof. His murderous actions were not divorced from his Christianity.
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1/2 Reminder re: Falwell Jr.’s demise. The animating core of Xn Right was never sexual purity. Protecting white supremacy at Bob Jones U was its genesis. Wh Xn flight to GOP was fueled by defending segregation under guise of law & order.
Cc: @JRubinBlogger
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Cc: @JRubinBlogger
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@JRubinBlogger Trump’s use of overtly racist tropes is best understood as the inevitable end of “the Southern Strategy” road, paved brick by brick through 13 presidential election cycles since 1968, and blessed by cons white Xns.
I unpack this history in #WhiteTooLong:
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I unpack this history in #WhiteTooLong:
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@JRubinBlogger 3/3 By the time RNC apologized for the Southern Strategy in 2005 or pushed for a more humane immigration policy in its “autopsy report” after Romney’s 2012 defeat, the Southern Strategy was a runaway freight train that simply had too much momentum behind it to be easily derailed.
