#Religious Right

[thepopculturearchivist]

JUDGE, February 13, 1926

#1920s #political cartoon #abraham lincoln #prohibition #ku klux klan #religious right #christian right #1926

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

What if all the anti-gay, homophobic rhetoric that has come from the Christian right over these past few decades was rooted in a mistranslation of the Bible?

In the documentary, 1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture, researchers and scholars delve into the 1946 mistranslation of 1 Corinthians 6:9 and explore how it fueled the Christian anti-gay movement that still thrives today.

The film hinges its premise on the fact that the word “homosexual” appeared for the first time in the Bible in 1946, in an apparent mistranslation of the ancient Greek words malakoi – defined as someone effeminate who gives themselves up to a soft, decadent, lazy and indolent way of living – and arsenokoitai – a compound word that roughly translates to “male bed”.

While people could take it to mean man bedding man, within the context of the time, scholars believed that arsenokoitai alluded more to abusive, predatory behavior and pederasty than it does homosexuality. [...]

#homophobia #religious right #Christianity #hate speech #documentary #Youtube

[probablyasocialecologist]

In anti-gay and anti-trans campaign ads, the threat to children was essentially a threat to the social body, embodied as a generalized child of the racial majority. A majority of ads portrayed prepubescent white children, pictured as between two and 10 years old, described as “little,” “small,” “young,” or “impressionable.” At times, teenagers were included in stories of sexually experimenting teens and hustlers. Almost all children pictured in these ads appear to be white, evoking appeals to protect children of the dominant race. Ads occasionally described these children as “your daughter” or used scenarios about one’s own children. However, 85 percent of frames address children more generally, often referring to “our children,” as in “protect our children.” For example, a 1994 Idaho campaign ad proclaimed: “They will demand…the right to adopt our children.” The children in question are not the reader’s children, who presumably are not up for adoption, but rather the community’s children. In this imaginary, “our children” are implicitly heterosexual, gender normative, and reared by heterosexual parents trying to protect them from exposure to LGBT life. This generalized child represents not just the imperiled subject but also perhaps the most vulnerable part of the public body, a symbol of community vulnerability, the perpetuation of society, and maintenance of the social order. Queer theorist Lee Edelman (2004) refers to this concern as reproductive futurity, an investment in white heteronormativity and its future that is fixated on children. The threat to reproductive futurity was surprisingly white itself. All portrayals of gay men and trans women in the Religious Right literature appeared to be white. Racial ideologies have long conflated homosexuality with whiteness (Collins 2005; Connell 2014), which is echoed in Religious Right literature that constructs homosexuality as both intrinsically male and white (Herman 1997). The threat to the generalized white child from within the majority race may be the construction of the ultimate stranger, individuals subsumed within the public body who are marked only by their gender and sexual variance.

#religious right #conservatism #lgbt #transgender #transphobia #stranger danger #social science #homophobia

[ysabelmystic]

My friends and I are rewatching a bunch of Christian films from my childhood and we completed the original Left Behind trilogy the other day. Here were my observations

I do think it's funny that the plot essentially begins with GMOs. GMOs are bad because more people being fed means world peace and globalism. That is bad.

"I'm Buck Williams and I'm standing in a wheat field" is now doomed to be repeated within my friend group for at least the next two years.

The antichrist's name is Nikolai Carpathia. He has the accent of a guy mimicking a Russian accent. This feels on par with JK Rowling naming her one Asian character "Cho Chang".

The character names also include (aside from the aforementioned antichrist and Kirk Cameron's character) Rayford Steele, Chloe, and Patty. Somehow it has the aura of a porno.

Despite the only demographic to be exclusively raptured is children under the age of 10, this fact is pretty much ignored.

Kirk Cameron's character (Buck) confronts police officers who are shooting at looters and teenagers for lacking compassion. By today's standards, this is woke propaganda.

I'm pretty sure the prior thing is to show that Buck is a good and pure soul who just needs to read a Bible to be fully redeemed because how else can you have a non-Christian protagonist in a movie like this. Or maybe this is to show that he's misguided and worldly. However, despite being a hot, sexy, prolific journalist, the movie also points out that he is a virgin.

The alleged romantic tension between Buck and pilot-not-porn-star Rayford Steele's daughter is painful to watch because Kirk Cameron will not kiss anyone other than his wife. There's a lot of awkward side hugs and leaving room for Jesus. Given that they end up getting married later, this is amusing to me.

These movies really want you to know two things: World Peace Is Bad, and Jews Are Bad. There are direct plot points specifically about converting Jewish people to Christianity so that they cannot usher in the rule of the antichrist.

I think it's really funny that, despite TV and the internet existing during the time this series takes place, the connection between the rapture prophecies/fanfics and The Fucking Rapture is only discovered by our protagonists and a handful of other random guys. I think a mass disappearance of certain branches of Christianity and children would provoke some kind of doubt and curiosity, but no. That's bad for plot. Instead, the whole world goes straight to "y'know what? Let's just get rid of all religion at once. Forever." This is because all other religions are made from faithless heathens who just really hate Christians, and since there are no longer Christians, they no longer have to Do Religion. I guess.

I also think it's funny that the main characters, though they themselves were convinced to convert because of the rapture, do not use the rapture as a means to convert the masses. They jump straight to bunker church and secret Bible brigades. When they do successfully convert others, it is either by trotting out the tired, "YOU THINK THIS WORLD WAS AN ACCIDENT???" Case for Christ nonsense, or basically threatening their victim with damnation.

Case in point, Rayford Steele talks a guy out of suicide by reminding him that he will never see his wife and child again if he goes through with it. Suicide = Straight To Hell.

There's a scene where the antichrist like... tries to "test" Rayford Steele by revealing his uber spoopy ghost face and seeing if he reacts. Because I guess the uber spoopy ghost face only works on believers. Te uber spoopy ghost face is his figure showing up in infrared, then his face stretching out cartoonishly, and his eyes turning black. This scared me as a child. It is the second funniest part of the movie.

Also, the title of the second movie being "Left Behind: Tribulation Force" is giving big "Electric Boogaloo" energy.

The antichrist reveals of the evil Global Community organization to the protagonists by handing them a piece of loose leaf printer paper with a logo that I would've made in the computer lab in 2005. This is done to the tune of sinister and dramatic music. This is the funniest part of the movie.

The third movie begins with the introduction of The President. It was previously stated that the president had been raptured. There was no mention of presidents up until this point. I know the line of succession exits but it really felt like they just forgot.

Oh yeah...the Pope was also raptured because he was secretly protestant.

Buck marries Rayford Steele's daughter at the same time Rayford Steele marries a random blonde lady. It feels weird and icky, which is furthered by the fact that the now married daughter will henceforth be referred to as "our girl" by both of these men for the rest of the movie.

We also had to stop the movie several times due most of the female cast consisting of skinny white blonde ladies. We could not tell the difference between any of them except for by their eyeliner. If she wears dark eyeliner, she's a whore.

Due to the plot involving the release of a virus that mainly only affects Christians, this film was definitely the most fun to dissect.

The virus is stored in badly CGId glowy green goo bottles, which for a series that has tried very hard to be serious, was awfully cartoony.

This movie does not give a fuck about the protagonists. This movie is about the president. I'm pretty sure this is because the protagonists, who are Christian, are no longer allowed to commit murder. The president is not a Christian, so he gets to use a gun.

The president has random warehouses to do casual interrogations in wherever and whenever he wants. It is clear that the creators were really struggling to make due with the set.

We know the antichrist is bad because he wants to take everyone's nukes. The president's main goal in this movie is to keep the nukes.

Back in the side plot, it turns out that the Christians are getting infected with green goo disease because the antichrist hid it in their Bibles. As the protagonists drown in guilt, the suspense of the plot really starts to fall apart. Their entire goal is to Get More People Into Heaven, and in this series, reading the Bible will automatically make anyone a Christian (the Bible's words cannot be resisted). If anything, they just fast-tracked a bunch of people into heaven, and they no longer have to endure the next seven years of apocalypse.

We should've all watched these movie pre-COVID. The only person who wears a mask and gloves is the antichrist. The protagonists also mention avoiding vaccines and relying on God/sacrificing themselves instead. This movie predicted 2020.

The super advanced green goo virus has an instacure antidote. Fucking red wine. This seems like a helluva lot of oversight to hand the "drinks red wine as part of religious rituals" group a virus that can be instacured by red wine.

WW3 starts. Somehow, this does not cause a nuclear winter.

The antichrist discovers that he can force-choke people.

The president suicide-bombs the antichrist's tower in order to "slow him down". Given that the antichrist cannot be killed and cell phones exist, I have no idea what exactly that was supposed to do.

As someone who grew up fully believing that Obama was the antichrist and Muslim (which is conservative for "literally a member of Al-Queda/ISIS").... and Black but they didn't say that part out loud), it was interesting in retrospect to watch this movie unfold. The president in this movie is a Black, non-Christian man who is initially for world peace, but then converts to Christianity and suicide-bombs the antichrist. We all have different interpretations of this, but we do agree that they would not have made that specific set of choices today. That said, my interpretation is the correct one /hj

#left behind #the rapture #exvangelical #fundiesnark #fundie snark #conservative christians #kirk cameron #religious right

[hezigler]

Watch "Zappa on Pat Robertson, religion and the Right Wing" on YouTube

"I have a fear that the United States could be herded into a fascist theocracy." Frank Zappa

Some of the horrible things Pat Robertson said.

#Youtube #frank zappa #pat robertson #religious right #christian right #christian dominionism #civil rights

[mitchipedia]

#abortion #religious right #conservatives

[poodleman]

#frank zappa #religious right #theocracy #prophetic #Youtube

[just-say-bismillah]

Yesterday, I made the decision to officially jump from hijab to niqab. A freedom and choice many women don’t have.

Today, I think of the women of France

The women of Quebec

The women of Switzerland

And the women of china, who don’t even have the freedom to cover their hair

Everyone should have the choice of whether or not to practice their faith. We should be able to freely choose how much or how little we get to cover.

#islam #muslim #faith #hijab #niqabi #niqab #hijabi #religious #religion #religious right #religious rights #china #France #switzerland #quebec

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

An 82-year-old grandmother affiliated with the local Republican Party spat at and attacked a group of veterans during a press conference in Tulsa last Friday, after they vocally protested against the enforced use of religion in public schools.

The incident, which was captured on camera, took place at a press conference called by State Superintendent Ryan Walters on the grounds of Tulsa Public Schools’ administration building.

Attendees were there to show support for E’Lena Ashley, a Tulsa school board member who had been criticized by parents and her fellow board members for praying during a high school graduation ceremony in May. Among those attending the event were members of the local chapter of extremist group Moms for Liberty, which endorsed Ashley’s campaign for school board last year.

Also in attendance were Roberta Pfanstiel and her husband Carl, who were there to support Walters’ call for “religious freedom” in schools. Last month at a Tulsa School Board meeting he called for the promotion of Christianity and “Western heritage” in every classroom, including displaying the Ten Commandments.

At the event, the Pfanstiels were standing next to three activists from Veterans Defending Democracy, who were calling out what they saw as Walters’ hypocritical calls for “religious freedom” in schools.

During the event Pfanstiel, who lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, approached one of the activists, Bailee Tyler, who was sitting on the ground wearing a hat bearing the name of one of the activist groups she is affiliated with, Defense of Democracy.

“[Tyler] was on her knees, on the ground in front of me, and [Pfanstiel] came up from behind her and smacked her hat off of her head,” Erika Stormont, one of the three activists said in a podcast discussing the incident.

Much of the exchange was captured on video and posted online. In the clips Stormont, who was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 before becoming one of the Army’s first female cavalry scouts in 2015, told Pfanstiel that she cannot touch her or anyone else, and that if she does it again they would press charges.

At one point during the press conference a Christian pastor began praying, and at this point protesters called on Walters to allow a rabbi to pray also if he really believed in religious freedom, chanting “let him pray.”

“And it’s as we’re chanting that, again unprovoked, this woman comes up from behind my friend who’s still on the ground and it looks to me like both of her hands are going for her neck, her shoulders area, and that she made contact,” Stormont said.

In Stormont’s video, posted on TikTok, Pfanstiel’s husband is seen restraining his wife by holding both her elbows.

“As I turned my camera back to her and said: ‘That’s twice, you cannot touch people in public.’ She spits in my face and her saliva lands on my cheek,” Stormont said.

At this point in the video, Stormont is heard telling Pfanstiel to spit again because she has captured it on camera. “I know that’s a very inciting thing to say [but] when I say that, every single part of my body at that point was in fight flight [mode].”

Stormont says she drew on the training she had received in therapy about how to deal with such situations. “I refocused back to the event, I refocused on why I was there, and I ‘gray rocked’ her, which is a term we use when we talk about recovering from narcissistic abuse. You cannot give them any of your energy at that point. And I knew at that point we were going to be pressing charges.”

Stormont filed a police report online and received a tracking number, but told VICE News that she has not heard back from the Tulsa Police Department. She called the department this week to update them with the identity of the person who spat at her, after she had been identified by online sleuths, but had to leave a voicemail. The Tulsa Police Department did not respond to VICE News’ requests for comment on the case.

In total about 100 people attended the event according to Stormont, with about one third of the attendees opposing Walters’ and Ashley’s claims that the school board is being religiously intolerant.

Alongside members of the local Moms for Liberty chapter were prominent members of the state and county Republican Party, including Oklahoma GOP chair Nathan Dahm and Tulsa County GOP chairwoman Ronda Vuillemont-Smith. Moms for Liberty did not respond to questions about Pfanstiel’s affiliation with the group.

Pfanstiel, who deleted her Facebook account this week after VICE News contacted her, has in the past appeared in pictures posted online showing herself and her family with Dahm. One photo was taken in front of the Oklahoma State Capitol on January 6, 2021, to oppose the outcome of the 2020 presidential elections.

Dahm didn’t respond to VICE News’ request for comment but Vuillemont-Smith said the party “is aware of the allegations of assault that took place” and “while the party was not the organizer of this press conference, we are monitoring the situation.”

“The Republican Party of Tulsa County honors all veterans who served, and support the freedom of speech,” Vuillemont-Smith added. “We do not condone nor endorse violence of any kind, nor do we support actions or free-speech that disrupt and impede on others' right to free speech.”

When asked if Pfanstiel is a member of the Tulsa GOP, the chairwoman said “all registered Republicans in Tulsa County are considered members of the Tulsa GOP.”

#us politics #news #vice news #2023 #republicans #conservatives #gop #moms for liberty #Ryan Walters #religious freedom #religious right #Oklahoma #Tulsa Public Schools #E’Lena Ashley #Roberta Pfanstiel #Carl Pfanstiel #Veterans Defending Democracy #Defense of Democracy #Bailee Tyler #Erika Stormont #veterans #military veterans #tiktok #Tulsa Police Department #Ronda Vuillemont-Smith #tulsa county gop #Nathan Dahm #Oklahoma gop

[bobapril]

So it seems Republican lawmakers have been put on the spot by Alabama's Supreme Court declaring that every single fertilized embryo created by IVF is in fact a child, and entitled to all the protections of any other child. How could the Family Values Party make it harder for couples to have children? I have no sympathy. "Life begins at conception!" They've spent half a century putting it in their fundraising, screaming it at women outside reproductive clinics, using it to justify the murder of doctors, and literally preaching it from the pulpits. And, according to their own stated principle, the Alabama court is totally correct - if a fertilized egg is a child, then there's millions of frozen children all over the nation. They used that principle to get what they wanted - a leash on women to push them back into a patriarchal subservient role. So when now they suddenly don't want to deal with some of the consequences, they ought not be let off the hook. Every journalist should be asking them to state their position clearly on IVF, and if they support it, follow up on how they can justify it when life begins at conception. They dug this hole - let them dig their own way out.

#us politics #alabama politics #reproductive rights #ivf #abortion #religious right

[lavendersheep20]

Ok so you know how certain groups of people have created religions to take advantage of religious protection laws? (Flying Spaghetti Monster, International Church of Cannabis, Satanic temples (esp. them making abortion a religious ritual in a bid to have it protected) etc). Why don’t we do that for radical feminism? In essence, any sort of belief or value system can be called a religion, so I personally consider radical feminism to be my religion. If we were to form some sort of radical feminist religious organization and have it legally recognized in some way, then there would be a lot of legal arguments to be made about discrimination (you cannot be fired for your religious beliefs, you cannot be required to participate in certain practices if they violate your religion, you must be allowed to practice your religious traditions (think: abortion as a religious rite), your institution, even if it receives state funding, cannot be forced to go against its religious values (think: women’s shelters do not have to include males, women’s only gyms can turn away males, etc). I feel like this could be a really solid political strategy if we have to play within the framework we’re given.

(Obviously I know lots of us are against religions having special rights but like it or not that’s how America functions so it could be useful) (also idk how well this would work in other countries)

#radfem #radblr #radical feminist safe #radical feminists please interact #us politics #religon #religious right #america #politics #religion and politics #spirituality #womens rights #political strategy #female political strategy

[thepopculturearchivist]

JUDGE, February 26, 1927. An editorial from a humor magazine in response to reports of thousands of people dying from drinking alcohol that had been poisoned by government officials. Wayne B. Wheeler led the Anti-Saloon League, a leading Prohibition activist group. He died later that year.

#prohibition #religious right #judge magazine #1920s #1927

[kit10phish]

'I Love You, [Homophobia] is Ruining My Life' {both}

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#comp-het #conservative #Dianna Agron #dress #False God #Gaylor #hate #homophobia #homophobic #internal homophobia #Karlie Kloss #Kaylor #LBGTQ #Mary&039;s Song #Midnights #miss americana and the heartbreak prince #music #Ours #playlists #political #politics #Red #religion #religious right #republican #Reputation #Shine #Snow on the Beach #SwiftGron #Taylor Swift

[probablyasocialecologist]

Gays are in good company, not that it is much comfort: Christians have a long history of accusing religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities of abusing, molesting, and killing children. In medieval Europe, Jews were frequently accused of ritually killing Christian children—the blood libel—often to use their blood to make matzah. Fictitious victims—Little Hugh of Lincoln, William of Norwich, Simon of Trent—were even canonized as saints to drum up fervor for pogroms. The accusation that queer people are “grooming” children to be gay or question their gender is just the modern equivalent of the blood libel: the molestation libel. The same was at the heart of the implementation of the sexual psychopath laws against gay men and of Anita Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign. The slightly new twist is that now when politicians accuse school districts or teachers of grooming children, they have in mind that even teaching children that queer people exist is tantamount to an act of pedophilia. Their solution is the complete invisibility of queer people. “Grooming” has become less a matter of seduction than of offering knowledge of the infinite variations of sexual and gender identities in the world. It has become the psychobabble version of tasting the forbidden fruit at the risk of expulsion from Edenic innocence. Even the Disney corporation can now be a groomer under this new understanding (and this will surely have a chilling effect on corporations watching what happens to Disney before deciding whether to speak out).

Michael Bronski, Grooming and the Christian Politics of Innocence

#lgbt #antisemitism #religious right #conservatism

[areadersquoteslibrary]

"Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty and strength. In other words, the less one knows how to command, the more urgently one covets someone who commands, who commands severely—  a god, prince, class, physician, father confessor, dogma, or party conscience. From this one might perhaps gather that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity. may have owed their origin and above all their sudden spread to a tremendous collapse and disease of the will. And that is what actually happened: both religions encountered a situation in which the will had become diseased, giving rise to a demand that had become utterly desperate for some "thou shalt." Both religions taught fanaticism in ages in which the will had become exhausted, and thus they offered innumerable people some support, a new possibility of willing, some delight in willing. For fanaticism is the only "strength of the will" that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain, being a sort of hypnotism of the whole system of the senses and the intellect for the benefit of an excessive nourishment (hypertrophy) of a single point of view and feeling that henceforth becomes dominant—  which the Christian calls his faith. Once a human being reaches the fundamental conviction that he must be commanded, he becomes “a believer.''"

- Friedrich Nietzsche,

'The Gay Science'

347. Believers and Their Need to Believe

#quotes #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #faith #crisis of faith #god #christianity #buddhism #religion #fascism #politics #american politics #trump #gop #american fascism #religious right #right wing politics #trumpism #belief in god #lack of faith #2024 election #nihilism #postmodernism #theology #reading #amreading #books #philosophy #philosophical quotes #21st century

[milkboydotnet]

The religious right plays an important international role in fighting political progress in developing nations. It is not surprising therefore that there has been an influx of these organizations into the Philippines. Intense and effective anticommunist propaganda arc trademarks in their religious campaigns. Vigilante death squads, civic action programs, "land reform," and U.S. military advisers are clear indications that the U.S. has chosen the Philippines as its next low intensity conflict testing ground and the religious right is there to lead the propaganda front.

Howard Goldenthal, Moonies, WACL and Vigilantes: The Religious Right in the Philippines (1988)

#unification church #moonies #anti-communism #philippines #u.s. imperialism #imperialism #quote #religious right #religion