#race

"This has led to all sorts of ongoing devastating consequences for human relationships including the persistence of racism, sexism, classism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia. …

It's indisputable at this point that men and boys are both in trouble and also themselves the direct cause of many of their problems”.

~ Ibid.

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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"This second choice, only to address that men and boys are in trouble but not to address the ways in which they're part of the problem, again often favored by conservatives, also makes a common historical era of privileging the emotional and physical needs of white Christian men and boys ahead of the emotional and physical needs of other human beings."

~ Ibid.

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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"We want to help them make the healthier and more fruitful, but difficult, choice to relinquish some status, power, and wealth in favor of improved relationships and more equitable and loving communities."

~ Ibid.

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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"If we only see that men and boys are in trouble, but don't address their roles in the problem, we risk infantilizing them and under-emphasizing the role of choice and agency among men and boys in choosing to step away from radicalization, violence, and brittle masculinity."

~ Ibid., p. 80

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker
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This thread is a continuation of a previous one (linked below) featuring excerpts from Angela Denker's Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Minneapolis: Broadleaf, 2025). I'm starting a new thread now rather than linking to the old one, as I offer new excerpts from Denker's book.

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https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114327053623993929

https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889830757/Disciples-of-White-Jesus

Weekend fun: power hiking up a 28% hill 55 times from dusk till dawn: 5011m elevation gain https://www.strava.com/activities/14161174049 #running #trailrunning #race

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Strava also recorded a PR with time 3:25:52 -- this was ~6min reduction from my previous PR. As expected, mile-20 killed me with a long climb on the bridge: I strategically walked a few times and it paid off. Alphafly 3 served me well w/ no issues.

I'm pretty happy w/ the result: was expecting just under 3:30 with this EG (~800ft)! I'm now much closer to BQ time 3:20:00, and my next #marathon #race will be the crazy 220-laps around #UW #Drumheller in June -- hey but it's flat!

#running

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#MillTown #Marathon #race is done today! My chip time was 3:24:01 pace 7'47"/mi, and was 9th place out of 130, and the first in my age/gender division! I ran this same course last year as my first-ever marathon race, and this time I shaved off 27 minutes!

(no I didn't wear crocs in the race -- the photo was taken afterwards)
(the box of drink is my award for #1 in the division)

#LongRunSunday #running

“The misleading depiction of Jesus as warrior, man's man—as unsympathetic, lonely, and harsh was always a caricature. That White Jesus is always eventually exposed as a straw man, an Oz shouting behind the curtain, a president reliant on spray tan and tax fraud. Jesus as he was and is offers something much more powerful and relatable."

~ Ibid., p. 78

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"By offering young boys and men a window into a nonmilitant, peaceful, loving, caring, friendly, hopeful, vulnerable, needy, well-adjusted, occasionally tearful Jesus—we can offer young, white Christian boys and men a much fuller, healthier, and more accessible vision of masculinity: one that's more reflective of the wide spectrum of masculinity and femininity occupied by both boys and girls.”

~ Ibid., p. 78

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“Reminding young, white Christian boys and men that Jesus is not a white man forces them to take Jesus and put him into a seat often occupied by people who are oppressed and marginalized, and whose strength and power are seen more often as a deviant threat than as something to be emulated and admired."

~ Ibid., p. 77

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“For all of their claims to be ‘Bible-based’ in a fallen, secular world, most of the influential male pastors trying to influence young, white Christian men and boys spend a lot more time convincing people to read their own books than they do convincing people to actually read the Bible itself.”

~ Ibid., p. 61

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“Young, white Christian boys and men have been sold an image of God, the Creator, that is wholly false and rooted not in heaven but on earth, in the hands of desperate and insecure Christian male leaders who are grasping at power, influence, and wealth.”

~ Ibid., p. 51

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The rise of end times fascism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Trumpadministration #SiliconValley #GretaThunberg #Climatecrisis #Farright(US) #Christianity #DonaldTrump #Environment #SteveBannon #USpolitics #PeterThiel #KristiNoem #NaomiKlein #Technology #ElonMusk #Religion #USnews #Race

(continued from 9):

"Many young, white Christian men and boys saw that image in Donald Trump, who spared no words talking about his own proclivity to grab women ‘by the pussy’ and take whatever he wanted from them.”

~ Ibid.

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“Absent those tools [for building mutual relationships that are bound together not by control, authority, or obligation but instead by love and respect], young, white Christian men and boys instead often cast about for role models who fit the image of God they've been taught about: a strong and violent masculine man who rules over everything in his presence."

~ Ibid.

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“Told again and again that they are the dominant sex, created to rule over and have dominion over not just women but the earth, the land, its animals, and all things on earth—it's often a rude awakening for young, white Christian men when they enter the world and find that most created things are not interested in being ruled over by them.”

~ Ibid., p. 48

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #bible #scripture
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“The late twentieth century was rife with white, male Christian leaders who wanted to capitalize (and make money) off of the idea that men, in the image of a manly God, were created to be angry, violent and in control."

~ Ibid., pp. 44-5

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #bible #scripture
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(continued from /5):

"On first read, maybe you'd think that means we're taught that we look like God. But ‘no one has ever seen God,’ so when you learn that you're created in God's image—as most young, white Christian boys and men have learned—then it makes sense that you think, ‘God must look like me.’”

~ Ibid., quoting John 1:18

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #bible #scripture
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“Many white American Christians are pretty sure they know what God looks like. Most of us won't really say it explicitly, of course: that would invite critique and the possibility that one of our most closely held but unexamined truths could be exposed as false. But most of us heard growing up that we were created in God's image."

~ Ibid., p 43

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalism #AngelaDenker #bible #scripture
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