I was staying at the marriott with jesus and john wayne
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- I WAS STAYING AT THE MARRIOTT WITH JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE FULL
- I WAS STAYING AT THE MARRIOTT WITH JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE FREE
No matter that Wayne wasn’t a cowboy or a soldier (he had a deferment in World War II), he was thrice married and twice divorced, and his real name was the unmanly Marion Morrison. John Wayne is the icon of modern evangelicalism. Screw all that “blessed are the meek” stuff.
I WAS STAYING AT THE MARRIOTT WITH JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE FREE
Sounds more like John Wayne than the Biblical Jesus, doesn’t it? Guys like Driscoll like to cite the few passages in scripture where Jesus is the aggressor - who chased the moneychangers out of the temple, slaughtered a herd of pigs to free one person from demonic possession, and “ordered his disciples around.” Real men avoided church because they had no interest in a “Richard Simmons, queer Christ.” But Jesus was no “long-haired, effeminate-looking dude” - he was… a man with “calluses on his hands and muscles on his frame.” …Jesus was a hero, not a loser, ‘an Ultimate Fighter warrior king with a tattoo down his leg who rides into battle against Satan, sin and death on a trusty horse.” Which leads to images like Biker Jesus above, and to the views of evangelical superstar preacher Mark Driscoll: This requires a militaristic stance to meet the threat. The latter are a mortal threat to the former, and must be defeated at all cost. Instead, their world is divided into Believers and The Fallen. In fact, the old drive to convert every race, creed and color to the One True Faith is largely out the door. Modern evangelicalism has developed a few very strong principles, which have more to do with social structure than with traditional Christianity. She takes us inside the world of modern white evangelicals, and shows clearly that they didn’t support Donald Trump in spite of who he was - he was the exact kind of leader they were looking for. You’ll get it entirely if you read “ Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation” by Kristin Kobes Du Mez, published in 2020. And clearly doesn’t know beans about the Bible, except that it’s a useful prop.
I WAS STAYING AT THE MARRIOTT WITH JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE FULL
Yes, devout Christians voted in droves for a philandering divorcee who paid off a porn star and bragged about grabbing them by the you-know-what and has a long, sordid business career full of bankruptcies and lawsuits. And understanding its worldview is key to understanding why over 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in 20. This evangelical ecosystem is invisible to the rest of us, but it’s very real. And artists like Stephen Sawyer, who created the above depiction of the Lamb of God as a tattooed he-man. For decades, white evangelicals have existed in their own cultural ecosystem, with their own churches and schools and universities and books and movies and music (ever heard Christian rap?) and cartoons. But the original, biggest, and baddest information bubble of them all surrounds white evangelicalism. There’s a lot of talk these days about information bubbles like Fox News, Newsmax, and the sludge pits of Facebook.
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Yes, this is very real and entirely serious.