309: Crybully Christians in the White House

The Trump DOJ's 565-page report from the Task Force for Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias is one of the strangest federal documents in American history. It’s a crybully tome, arguing that the most powerful religious majority in the United States is its most persecuted minority. 

Julian examines the FACE Act allegations, the FBI-Catholic surveillance controversy, and the selective history propping up the Christian-founding thesis. Derek traces the freethinker and secularist tradition the report erases. Matthew tracks the document's most telling absence: anticommunism. 

From Eisenhower to Reagan, Christian nationalism always came bundled with a Soviet enemy and a defense of free enterprise and private property. But the 67% of the doc that’s about sexuality, gender, and reproductive rights shows that the billionaire Jesus class thinks the class war is over, and so all that’s left to control is the body itself.

Show Notes

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

SPLC: 12 Anti-Semitic Radical Traditional Catholic Groups

AXIOS: Assaults Against Abortion Clinics Rose 128% in 2021

DOJ Says Biden Unfairly Attacked Anti-Abortion Groups

Is Jane’s Revenge For Real?

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