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100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a U.S. university – part of the terror group’s crusade against American Catholics

Dec 15, 2023 | A Fever in the Heartland, Anti-Immigration, Birth of a Nation, Black History, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Dayton, Harry Baujan, Johnson-Reed Act, KKK, Linda Gordon, Lynching, Second Ku Klux Klan, Society of Mary, Timothy Egan, University of Dayton, White Supremacy | 0 comments

by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. KKK Demonstration in Dayton, OH on September 21, 1923. Photo courtesy of Dayton Metro Library. It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at...

Before he was House speaker, Mike Johnson represented a creationist museum in court. Here’s what that episode reveals about his politics.

Dec 12, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bodie Hodge, Carl Weinberg, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evolution, Freedom Guard, House Speaker, John Fea, Ken Ham, Marxism, Mike Johnson, Public Religion Research Institute, Red Dynamite, Righting America, School Shootings, Secularism, Social Evolution, Statement of Faith, Tax Breaks, The Lie, Young Earth Creationism | 2 comments

by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson takes questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 14, 2023. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Speaker of the House Mike...

Mike Johnson: Not for the People, and Not a True Evangelical

Oct 31, 2023 | Anti-Abortion, Anti-Environmentalism, Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, Christian Nationalism, Constitution, Creation Museum, Culture War, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy, House Speaker, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, MAGA, Mike Johnson, Randall Balmer, Religion and Politics, Republicans, Rodney Kennedy, Secularism, Shreveport, The Immaculate Mistake, Trump Supporters, Women's Rights, Young Earth Creationism | 2 comments

by Rodney Kennedy Donald Trump with newly elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson. Image via rightwingwatch.org. Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First...

Amish Culture Prizes Peace − But You Wouldn’t Necessarily Know It from a Stop in Amish Country Tourist Towns

Oct 18, 2023 | American Flag, Amish, Christian Nationalism, Church and State, Declaration of Independence, Dirk Willems, Hold Fast, Imagined Future, New Order Amish, Nostalgia, Old Order Amish, Pacifism, Peace, Pledge of Allegiance, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Selling the Amish, Tourism, University of Dayton, Visual Rhetoric | 3 comments

by Susan Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to republish it here at rightingamerica. Gift items for sale in Walnut Creek, Ohio, in May 2023. Photo by Susan Trollinger Ohio’s Amish Country, located in...

Robert Jeffress and the Idol of Christian Nationalism

Jul 4, 2023 | American Creationism, American History, Christian Nationalism, Church and State, David Barton, Evangelical History, First Amendment, First Baptist Church of Dallas, Fourth of July, History, John Fea, Karl Giberson, Nostalgia, Randall Stephens, Religion and History, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, School Prayer, Secularization, The Anointed, The Jefferson Lies, Thomas Nelson, Will Campbell | 3 comments

bgy Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...

Greedy for Certainty: The Strange Fruit of Literalism 

Apr 24, 2023 | Anti-Vaxxers, Bible, Biblical Authority, Biblical Literalism, Catholicism, Certainty, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Critical Race Theory, David Barton, Descartes, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Fox News, Harold Bloom, Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah, Immigration, John Calvin, Ken Ham, Moses, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Richard Elliott Friedman, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Southern Baptist Convention, White Supremacy | 0 comments

by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...