Bonus Sample: TheoBros, Political Religion, and Christmas
Extremely online, bearded, Millennial pastors in tailored suits want to repeal women’s suffrage, criminalize gays, and Make America Christian Again. These “TheoBros” even have a guy on the inside: JD Vance. Trump’s Dept of Defense nominee, Pete Hegseth, attends an affiliated church.
Julian tracks their genealogy and ugly ideas, as well as their parallel reactionary theocratic visions wreaking havoc elsewhere in the world today. Stay tuned for conversational reflections and wholesome holiday wishes at the end!
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Women are sinning at a higher degree and a higher frequency than men in the realm of marriage, and we could probably argue other arenas as well, but in the realm of marriage, particularly as it pertains to abuse and divorce, yes, yes, that's what the statistics bear.
Women are sinning worse, in worse ways, and with a higher frequency than men.
It is not because women are inherently more sinful than men.
But it is because women for decades now in the West, and particularly the United States of America, their sin has gone on unchecked.
That is a guy named Joel Webin.
He's the president and founder of Right Response Ministries and the pastor of Covenant Church in Georgetown, Texas, which is 30 miles north of Austin.
Webin is identified as part of a group that some scholars are calling He's a post-millennialist,
which means in this particular cluster of evangelical Protestant churches that their specific theology states that the second coming of Jesus and the ensuing rapture of true believers up into heaven, presumably leaving the rest of us quite relieved,
will happen not before, as pre-millennialists claim, but after an extended period of time, perhaps even a thousand years or a millennium, of the world living under Christian dominion.
Christian dominion.
Now, progressive Christians might imagine this would mean some version of the social gospel, you know, feeding the poor and loving our enemies.
The white Christian nationalism that is ascendant right now, though, Explicitly cites religion as a justification for ultra-conservative traditionalist politics around gender roles, sexuality, race, and power.
And central to this discourse is the place of women.
And it's on this topic of how women should be situated within a Christian nationalist state where we find actually some significant overlap with our current vice president-elect, J.D. Vance.
You may remember that several statements related to his infamous childless cat lady slur surfaced during the election.
Here's a little summary.
Bought into an idea that it's liberating to leave an eight-week-old baby to go work 90 hours a week at Goldman Sachs.
You've been had.
We have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children.
To me, what it is is sort of a value system to replace the fact that they're all fundamentally atheist or agnostic.
The people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids.
Yeah, he's a special one.
Now, in her recent piece for Mother Jones, journalist Keira Butler says that to understand J.D. Vance, we need to become familiar with a new generation of mostly millennial Christian nationalist influencers that some have dubbed the Theobros.
They see Vance as one of their own.
Joel Webin, who we heard from a moment ago, is one of the more prominent Theo Brose.
And speaking of our recent election, here are his thoughts talking about a possible path to saving America from degeneracy.
We're not even close to—we're degenerates.
The Constitution is not suited for governing degenerates.
For governing degenerates—and I'm curious your thoughts on this, if you agree, disagree—but I think for our population that is degraded morally and culturally and religiously, as far as we have— You need power.
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