Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith
Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.
Jul 2021 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Ron Butler
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A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology.
Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers.
He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve.
In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.
Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers.
He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve.
In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.
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Lisa Neuman
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October 28, 2022
Truth can only be found in the Bible. Please stop reading these books by people who are wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing. God is love, but He is also perfect and knows what will harm us, our children, and others. Those who have not simply asked God to enter His Holy Spirit into their hearts and lives cannot know truth. They are reliant upon their own minds which cannot comprehend the whole picture as God’s spirit can. Our only hope is Jesus! Don’t put hope in anything/one else. You are warned.
Adam Oliver
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December 8, 2022
Great book to have during a toilet paper shortage. The pages are a tad rough on my bottom but they did the job smashingly. I would just suggest adding perforations for easy dispensing in future issues.
JoAnne Callaway
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October 13, 2021
This book is a wake-up call to Christians everywhere that are misrepresenting God. God IS love and is getting fed up with his people being so judgmental and hateful and proud and choosing willful ignorance over the Truth. Most evangelical Christians these days and their followers don’t even know God. God even gives us the answer so that we can discern people’s intent…You shall know them by their fruit. It is a disgrace that people call themselves Christians yet declare such a horrible human being as Trump to be God’s President. It’s the blind leading the blind and believe me, there will be a reckoning. God is not stupid.
About the author
Obery M. Hendricks Jr. is a best-selling author, an activist, a religious scholar, a former theological seminary president, and an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His books include The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted and The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic. He currently teaches religion and African American studies at Columbia University and is also a Visiting Professor of Bible and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
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