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Christians against Christianity : how right-wing Evangelicals are destroying our nation and our faith / Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: xx, 204 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807057407
  • 0807057401
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Contents:
Introduction -- We have no king but Caesar: genuflecting at strange altars -- You will know them by their fruits: the strange fruit of right-wing evangelicalism -- Who do you say I am?: right-wing evangelicals' dangerous misappropriation of Jesus -- A new commandment I give you: that you love one another: right-wing evangelicals, homosexuality, and marriage equality -- I have other sheep not in this fold: right-wing evangelicals and the demonization of immigrants and Muslims -- You shall not add to the word which I command you: right-wing evangelicals, abortion, and the meaning of "pro-life" -- Thou shalt not murder: the unholy alliance between right-wing evangelicals and the NRA -- The workman is worthy of his keep: the unholy alliance of big business and right-wing evangelicals -- Epilogue: A spirit of Antichrist.
Summary: "Shows the many ways today's right-wing evangelical Christianity is the antithesis of the message of Jesus, and how their dangerous and false of the Christian faith is destroying both the faith and American society"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, he provides a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. -- adapted from jacket
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology.

Today's right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity , best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers.

He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the "court jesters" and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns' every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve.

In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals' aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- We have no king but Caesar: genuflecting at strange altars -- You will know them by their fruits: the strange fruit of right-wing evangelicalism -- Who do you say I am?: right-wing evangelicals' dangerous misappropriation of Jesus -- A new commandment I give you: that you love one another: right-wing evangelicals, homosexuality, and marriage equality -- I have other sheep not in this fold: right-wing evangelicals and the demonization of immigrants and Muslims -- You shall not add to the word which I command you: right-wing evangelicals, abortion, and the meaning of "pro-life" -- Thou shalt not murder: the unholy alliance between right-wing evangelicals and the NRA -- The workman is worthy of his keep: the unholy alliance of big business and right-wing evangelicals -- Epilogue: A spirit of Antichrist.

"Shows the many ways today's right-wing evangelical Christianity is the antithesis of the message of Jesus, and how their dangerous and false of the Christian faith is destroying both the faith and American society"-- Provided by publisher.

Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, he provides a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. -- adapted from jacket

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