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“CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND ELECTORAL POLITICS, Part 1.”

J.M. Kosanovich

Posted October 22, 2020

• Pew Research Center.  “New Pew Research Center Study Examines America’s Changing Religious Landscape.”  www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/new-pew-research-center-study-examines-americas-changing-religious-landscape.  May 12, 2015.

• Roper Center. ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31116396.  November 8, 2016.  

• J. Johnson.  “’All in’ for Trump: These White men, the strongest Trump supporters say they can’t be swayed.”  The Washington Post.  www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump--white-men-boat-parade/2020/09/27/dcd7bdd8-fe79-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html.  September 9, 2020.

• J. Martinez, G. Smith.  “How the faithful voted: A preliminary 2016 analysis.  Pew Research  Center.  www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis.  November 9, 2016.

• National Evangelical Association, Internet Archive Way Back Machine   www.nae.net/images/content/For_The_Health_Of_The_Nation.pdf.  October 7, 2004.

• C. White.  “Texas bishop endorses video claiming faithful Catholics can’t support Democratic candidates.”  National Catholic Reporter.  www.ncronline.org/news/politics/texas-bishop-endorses-video-claiming-faithful-catholics-can-t-support-democratic.  September 6, 2020.

• J. Jenkins.  “Theologians, activists, formers bishops staff urge Catholic voters to oppose Trump.”  National Catholic Reporter.  www.ncronline.org/news/politics/theologians-activists-former-bishops-staff-urge-catholic-voters-oppose-trump.  September 9, 2020.

• S. Gardner.  “Notre Dame distances itself from ex-football coach Lou HJoltz after his comments in RNC speech.  USA Today.  www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2020/08/27/notre-dame-disavows-lou-holtz-joe-biden-republican-national-convention/5648989002.  August 27, 2020.

• M. Lipka.  “Vatican synod on family highlights discord between church teachings and U.S. Catholics’ views”.  Pew Research Center.   https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/03/vatican-synod-on-family-highlights-discord-between-church-teachings-and-u-s-catholics-views-2.  October 3, 2014.

• Barna Research Group, State of the Church.  “Five Trends Defining Americans’ Relationship to Churches.”  www.barna.com/research/current-perceptions, February 19, 2020.

• Barna Research Group, State of the Church 2020.  “Signs of Decline & Hope Among Key Metrics of Faith.”  www.barna.com/research/changing-state-of-the-church.  March 4, 2020.

• Pew Research Center.  “New Pew Research Center Study Examines America’s Changing Religious Landscape.”  www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/new-pew-research-center-study-examines-americas-changing-religious-landscape.  May 12, 2015.​

 

“CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND ELECTORAL POLITICS, Part 2.”

J.M. Kosanovich

Posted October 29, 2020

• Gospel of St. Luke, 4:16-21.  Holy Bible, New International Version 2011.

• e.g. Gospel of St. Matthew, 3:7, 5:20, 23:13-29.  Holy Bible, New International Version 2011.

• J. Hutchinson.  “Servanthood: Jesus’ Countercultural Call to Christian Leaders.”  Bibliotheca Sacra no. 166,   January-March,2009. www.dts.edu/download/publications/bibliotheca/DTS%20BibSac%202009%20Servanthood.pdf. 

• N. O’Leary.  “Pope attacks ‘tyranny’ of markets in manifesto for papacy.”  Reuters, www.reuters.com/news/picture/pope-attacks-tyranny-of-markets-in-manif-idUSBRE9AP0EQ20131126.  November 26, 2013.

• Pope Francis.  “Apostolic Exhortation on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World.”  www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html  November 24, 2013.

• J. Jenkins.  “Theologians, activists, formers bishops staff urge Catholic voters to oppose Trump.”  National Catholic Reporter.  www.ncronline.org/news/politics/theologians-activists-former-bishops-staff-urge-catholic-voters-oppose-trump.  September 9, 2020.

• S. Salgado.  “Sisters produce a 2020 voting guide; 11 justice-and-peace groups urge reflection.”  National Catholic Reporter, Global Sisters Report.  www.globalsistersreport.org/news/politics/social-justice/news/sisters-produce-2020-voting-guide-11-justice-and-peace-groups-urge.  September 10, 2020.

• M. Hadro.  “’Catholics for Biden’ claims Democratic candidate shares pope’s priorities.”  Catholic News Agency, www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/catholics-for-biden-claims-democratic-candidate-joe-biden-shares-popes-priorities-93658.  September 4, 2020.

• J. Ward.  “Evangelicals opposed to Trump step out of the shadows with new groups and ads.”  Yahoo News www.yahoo.com/news/evangelicals-opposed-to-trump-step-out-of-the-shadows-with-new-groups-and-ads-152644503.html.  October 16, 2020.

• T. Anyabwile.  “Is There an Evangelical ‘Social Justice Movement’?”.   The Gospel Coalition, www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/thabiti-anyabwile/evangelical-christian-social-justice-movement.  September 3, 2019.

• “The Statement on Social Justice & the Gospel.”  statementonsocialjustice.com.  September 4, 2018.

• M. Devine.  “Evangelicals Fight Wokedom Without and Within.”  American Spectator, spectator.org/evangelicals-social-justice woke/?fbclid=IwAR34ytdyz8GXQMDAjuMuaT_nmoNnRJBGEXyR6coNryHEiwezHjdneUw0RsU.  October 25, 2020.

 

“APOCALYPTIC ALLIANCE: EVANGELICALS AND ISRAEL”

J.M. Kosanovich

Posted November 7, 2020

• Darby’s 1828 pamphlet was entitled “The Nature and Unity of the Church of Christ.”

• Amillennialism believes that the Millennium (return of Christ) is not a future event but one that has already been set in motion by the appearance of Jesus of Nazareth.  The Book of Revelation is treated as allegorical, including the thousand-year period of righteous, and the concept of the rapture is not even hinted at.  Postmillennialism is an end-times view that focuses on the progressive victory and expansive influence of Christianity. It believes that we are currently living in the Millennium and that, during this indefinitely long period of time, Christians are tasked to extend the Kingdom of God in the world.  The Millennium will become an increasingly golden age and the world will eventually enjoy a state of righteousness and peace hitherto unseen.  Only after the realization of the kingdom on earth will Christ return.  They view The Book of Revelation as using allegory to describe not a person but the Roman Empire, and by extension all state oppressors of the faithful and the gospel of Jesus.  Postmillennialists also reject the rapture.

• J. Akin.  “False Profit: Money, Prejudice, and Bad Theology in Tim Lachaise’s Left Behind Series.”  Catholic.com, www.catholic.com/library/false_profit.asp.  March 4, 2004.

• A. Wilkenson.  “The ‘Left Behind’ series was just the latest way America prepared for the Rapture.”  The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/07/13/the-left-behind-series-was-just-the-latest-way-america-prepared-for-the-rapture.  July 13, 2016.

•  “Tim and Beverly LaHaye.”  Time Magazine.  February 3, 2005.

• Tim LaHaye Ministries.  Tim LaHaye Obituary.  Facebook, www.facebook.com/timlahayeministries/posts/tim-lahaye-evangelical-leader-and-left-behind-co-author-passes-at-90san-diego-ca/1729797110613676.  July 25, 2016.

• S. Perry.  “Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell Sr. have long talked of conspiracies against God’s chosen – those ideas are finding resonance today.”  The Telegraph.  www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Evangelical-leaders-like-Billy-Graham-and-Jerry-15638900.php.  October 12, 2020.

• J. Kosanovich.  “Christian Churches and Electoral Politics, Part 2.”  TalkingGlobally, www.talkingglobally.com/churches-and-politics-part-2.  October 29, 2020.

• D. Burke.  “Why evangelicals are ‘ecstatic’ about Trump’s Jerusalem move.  CNN, www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/american-evangelicals-jerusalem/index.html.  December 6, 2017.

• J. Rosenberg.  “Evangelical Attitudes Toward Israel Research Study.”  LifeWay Research, lifewayresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Evangelical-Attitudes-Toward-Israel-Research-Study-Report.pdf  (pp. 12-14).  September 28, 2017.

• G. Smith.  “U.S. Jews are more likely than Christians to say Trump favors the Israelis too much.”  Pew Research, Fact Tank, www.pewreseach.org/fact-tank/2019/05/06/u-s-jews.  May 6, 2019.

• P. Bump.  “Half of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy.”  The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy.  May 14, 2018.

• See: J. Sumption.  Pilgrimage: An Image of Mediaeval Religion (1975), and S. Heath. Pilgrim Life in the Middle Ages (1912) and its 1950 enlarged edition In the Steps of the Pilgrims.

• T. Gjelten.  “As U.S. Jews Cool to Israel, Evangelicals Flock There as Tourists.”  National Public Radio, www.npr.org/2019/08/25/753720351/as-u-s-jews-cool-to-israel-evangelicals-flock-there-as-tourists.  August 25, 2019.

 

“QAnon: Tip of the Spear”

J.M. Kosanovich

Posted December 7, 2020

• CBS News.  “What is the QAnon conspiracy theory?  www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-the-qanon-conspiracy-theory.  August 2, 2018.

• M. Vazquez.  “Trump again refuses to denounce QAnon”.  CNN Politics. 

     www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/donald-trump-qanon-town-hall/index.html.  October       

     15, 2020.

• M. Rosenberg.  “Republican Voters Take a Radical Conspiracy Theory Mainstream.”  The New York Times,

     www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html.  October 19,      

     2020.

• United States House of Representatives.  House Resolution 1154.  www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/1154/text

• A. Ohlheiser.  “Facebook says it will extend its QAnon ban.”  MIT Technology Review.  www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/06/1009561/facebook-qanon-ban.  October 6, 2020.

• B. Lord & R. Naik.  “He went down the AQnon rabbit hole for two years.  Here’s how he got out.”  CNN Business,

     www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/tech/qanon-believer-how-he-got-out/index.html.  October

     16, 2020.

• S. Sabin.  “1 in 4 Social Media Users Who Have Heard of QAnon Say Its Conspiracy Theories Are at Least Somewhat Accurate.”  Morning Consult, https://morningconsult.com/2020/10/14/social-media-qanon-poll.  October 14, 2020.

• G. Mezzofiore, et.al.  “’It’s like a parasite.’  How a dangerous virtual cult is going global.”  CNN Business, www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/tech/qanon-europe-cult-intl/index.html. October 7, 2020.

• G. Resto-Montero.  “Italy revokes Steve Bannon’s right to use a monastery for his political ‘gladiator’ school.”  Vox, 

     www.vox.com/policy-and politics/2019/6/1/18648732/steve-bannons-italian-monastery- 

     political-gladiator-school-revoke.  June 1, 2019.

• K. Rogers & K. Roose. The New York Times.  August 19, 2020.

• FBI Phoenix Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Intelligence Bulletin.  “Anti-Government, Identity Based, and Fringe Political Conspiracy Theories Very Likely Motivate Some Domestic Extremists to Commit Criminal, Sometimes Violent Activity.”  www.justsecurity.org/wpcontent/uploads/2019/08/420379775-fbi-conspiracy-theories-domestic-extremism.pdf.  May 30, 2019.

• The Protocols were fabricated by the Imperial Russian secret police in 1903 as part of their campaign to justify the Tsar’s anti-Jewish pogroms.  They were translated into English in 1919, and in the 1920’s Henry Ford funded the printing of 500,000 copies distributed throughout the USA.  Today neo-fascist, fundamentalist, and anti-Semitic groups present it as a genuine document.  Political scientist S. Bronner described it as “probably the most influential work of anti-Semitism ever written . . . what the Communist Manifesto is for Marxism is for Marxism, the fictitious Protocols is for anti-Semitism.”  [S. Bronner (2003).  “A Rumor About Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.”  New York: Oxford University Press.

• M. Rosenberg.  “Republican Voters Take a Radical Conspiracy Theory Mainstream.”  The New York Times,

• www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html.  October 19, 2020.

• E. Steck, N. McDermott, C. Hickey.  "The congressional candidates who have engaged with the QAnon conspiracy theory."  CNN Politics,

• www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/qanon-cong-candidates.  October 30, 2020.

• J. Sachs.  “QAnon Supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene Wins Congressional Primary in Georgia.”  Grit Daily, gritdaily.com/marjorie-taylor-greene.  August 12, 2020.  E. Relman.  Business Insider. 06/10/2020.

• B. Nadler.  “Candidate who embraces QAnon endorses Loeffler for Senate.”  Associated Press,

     apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-senate-elections-

     georgia-6110d626cee11b289c9c6755973fc930.  October 15, 2020.

• C. Domonoske.  “QAnon Supporter Who Made Bigoted Videos Wins Ga. Primary, Likely Heading to Congress.”  National Public Radio, www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre.  August 12, 2020.

• A. Kaplan.  “Here are the QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2020.”  MediaMatters for America, www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020.  January 7, 2020; updated November 9, 2020.

• C. Edmondson.  “17 Republicans decline to condemn QAnon as the House votes to reject its conspiracy theories.  The New York Times,  www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/elections/17-republicans-decline-to-condemn-qanon-as-the-house-votes-to-reject-its-conspiracy-theories.html.  October 2, 2020.

• Texas: J. Arrington, B. Babin, M. Burgess, B. Flores.  Georgia: E. Carter, D. Ferguson, M. Greene.  South Carolina: J. Duncan, R. Norman.  Alabama: M. Brooks.  Florida: D. Webster.  Pennsylvania: M. Kelly, S. Perry.  Ohio: W. Davidson.  Wisconsin: T. Tiffany.  Arizona: P. Gosar.  Colorado: L. Boebert.  Utah: R. Bishop.