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Weil hoped it would be to the left, but she feared that, in desperate times, the severe uniforms and regimentation of the Nazi rallies would have more appeal than vague socialist dreams of equality. She was right. On 30 January 1933, a weak coalition government headed by President Paul von Hindenburg gave in to pressure and appointed Adolf Hitler a
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Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
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But family values politics was never about protecting the well-being of families generally. Fundamentally, evangelical “family values” entailed the reassertion of patriarchal authority. At its most basic level, family values politics was about sex and power.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez • Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Like Robert Jeffress, some Americans endorse the idea that Christianity and our national identity are inextricably bound together. Those who disagree with him are “seculars” and “liberals” blinded to the truth and out to suppress religious freedom.
Samuel L. Perry • Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States
