Presenting my It Has to Be Read. selection for the month of May, 2025, Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism by Brian Kaylor & Beau Underwood
At last—a book that names the polite pulpits in pastel robes as co-conspirators in this holy horror show.
While everyone’s busy blaming the shouty evangelicals and MAGA prophets in red hats, this book dares to lift the stole and reveal the complicity beneath. Mainline Protestantism didn’t just watch Christian Nationalism grow—it baptized it, blessed it, and hosted the potluck afterward.
Thank you, Brian and Beau, for breaking the stained-glass silence. And thank you, Frank, for dragging the family jewels of the Religious Right out into the sunlight, again.
🔸️Evaluate any group with Dr. Steven Hassan's BITE Model of Authoritarian Control."
🔸️The BITE test finds out if any group is helpful or harmful, honest or dishonest, healthy or unhealthy.
A score closer to 100 in the BITE Model of Authoritarian Control is a dangerous group - get out fast, if they let you get out. A score closer to zero is a group that is benign, welcoming, and helpful - stay in if you wish. Good to know for any group any of us choose to join. I was in a multilevel marketing group that scored 67 out of 100. Needless to say I left long ago.
The hatred of anyone who expresses a difference in the most trivial of human behavior and alignments, sexual identity, has lead to this apocalypse. I blame the church itself.
Well yeah. They have to assure who they can elect will win due to who will elect him because of their beliefs. It's a sure win system. What if we didn't have conformity to any religion and people voted based upon their sense of right and wrong in their hearts, listening to the people running for office tells ng electors their political stands not based on religion. Elections wouldn't be predictable.
At last—a book that names the polite pulpits in pastel robes as co-conspirators in this holy horror show.
While everyone’s busy blaming the shouty evangelicals and MAGA prophets in red hats, this book dares to lift the stole and reveal the complicity beneath. Mainline Protestantism didn’t just watch Christian Nationalism grow—it baptized it, blessed it, and hosted the potluck afterward.
Thank you, Brian and Beau, for breaking the stained-glass silence. And thank you, Frank, for dragging the family jewels of the Religious Right out into the sunlight, again.
Some baptisms don't cleanse. They camouflage.
—Virgin Monk Boy
"Do You Know Someone in a Cult?
🔸️Evaluate any group with Dr. Steven Hassan's BITE Model of Authoritarian Control."
🔸️The BITE test finds out if any group is helpful or harmful, honest or dishonest, healthy or unhealthy.
A score closer to 100 in the BITE Model of Authoritarian Control is a dangerous group - get out fast, if they let you get out. A score closer to zero is a group that is benign, welcoming, and helpful - stay in if you wish. Good to know for any group any of us choose to join. I was in a multilevel marketing group that scored 67 out of 100. Needless to say I left long ago.
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The hatred of anyone who expresses a difference in the most trivial of human behavior and alignments, sexual identity, has lead to this apocalypse. I blame the church itself.
Well yeah. They have to assure who they can elect will win due to who will elect him because of their beliefs. It's a sure win system. What if we didn't have conformity to any religion and people voted based upon their sense of right and wrong in their hearts, listening to the people running for office tells ng electors their political stands not based on religion. Elections wouldn't be predictable.