And each year since 1974, the March for Life is walked by hundreds of thousands, even up to around 650,000 in 2013. In 1969, the moratorium to end the war in Vietnam had about half a million. In 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought a quarter of a million people to the Lincoln Memorial. I'm Evan Rosa with the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. This is For the Life of the World, a podcast about seeking and living a life worthy of our humanity. The use of violence only benefits those already in power.Įvan Rosa: For the Life of the World is a production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.Peaceful protest in Lafayette Square dispersed with tear gas.Christian history of just deployments of violence.Countering bad violence with righteous violence.Christian nationalism’s concern with power assumes others are concerned with power.Christian nationalism appears associated with fascist fears.“Fascism takes this distinction between the rural real countrymen and the urban parasites.”.Fascist political fears of losing dominant culture to minorities.Christ is the lion in the sphere of politics.Christian nationalism has an exclusivist political vision.David Martin’s idea that religion becomes violent under certain circumstances.“If we need law and order, we need a law of love and an order of peace.”.US polarization in the face of racial justice protests.Books mentioned in this interview: Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States David Martin, Does Christianity Cause War? Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Click here to listen to the full episode on Christian Nationalism in the United States.Does the melding of Christianity with the Nation produce violence and war? What's the relation between Christian Nationalism and fascism? Miroslav Volf asks sociologists Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry. E.g., deploying tear gas for a Bible-holding photo opp. The current presidential administration has linked federal violence against largely peaceful protests in the name of law, order, and defending God.
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