51 Matching Annotations
  1. Nov 2021
    1. She concluded her more than 20-minute video with an outline of her religious beliefs. “To me, God and country are tied — to me they’re one and the same,” she said.

      civil religion

    2. Jericho March

      implicit here is the massacre that happens inside Jericho

    1. Satanic conspiracy

      endpoint of the Christianity vs. everything else rhetoric...

    2. We don’t have to look hard to find influential evangelicals peddling Trump’s lies. Activist Charlie Kirk, who co-founded a think tank at Falwell’s Liberty University, and Franklin Graham, the head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, have both fueled evangelical conspiracies about a stolen election.

      TPUSA

    3. Evangelicals could be both Zionists and antisemites,

      such an important point

    4. As one evangelical from Texas told The New York Times, “We are fighting good versus evil, dark versus light.”

      is this so different from Billy Graham in 1952?

    1. Such individuals “tend to have a thin knowledge and understanding of their religion,” Pape said. “Recruits tend to be making individual decisions about the ideologies they want to follow and even what it means. It’s very much at the level of the individual.”

      white people are always lone gunmen

    2. Several studies in recent years have found differences between Christian nationalists who are religious and those who are less so.

      what a fascinating (non) distinction!

    3. Lone Ranger Christianity

      is this phrase a way to excuse what some consider "aberrant" behavior?

    4. lack of supervision

      what does this mean?

  2. Apr 2017
    1. after it.

      Overall grade = C/ C+

      This is a passable attempt that unfortunately regurgitates political tropes from the late 1980s, moderately updated. In addition, more importantly, you have to provide more evidence in order to support your claims and steer clear of selective anecdotes. Stick with the actual sources.

    2. These days, the whole idea of Western civ is assumed to be reactionary and oppressive

      you haven't proven this. you've asserted this numerous times but your evidence primarily consists of a few anecdotes drawn from elite white men (in the previous paragraph).

    3. According to a study published in The Journal of Democracy, the share of young Americans who say it is absolutely important to live in a democratic country has dropped from 91 percent in the 1930s to 57 percent today.

      I notice you didn't link to this source. why? it's important to cite your sources so that readers can verify your claims.

    4. chilling intolerance

      have you been to a college campus? is not getting your $10,000+ honorarium the same as fearing for your life as a trans- student? is retreating to your $100,000+/ year job at a think tank or on cable tv the same as getting pulled over by police on a regular basis, or having your humanity questioned in print "weekly?" the former are the "fragile thugs" here, not the students.

    5. ragile thugs who call themselves students shout down and abuse speakers on a weekly basis

      weekly? avoid such hyperbole.

    6. Finally, there has been the collapse of liberal values at home. On American campuses,

      this is a false equivalency. the collapse of the European Union is not the same as student-led protests on college campuses.

    7. centrist parties

      is it fair to say that the "center" has collapsed because "centrist parties" have? do ideas only inhabit political parties?

    8. premodern

      why "premodern?" nepotism in this vein seems to be a particularly modern phenomenon. think about all the petty dictatorships in Africa, Latin America, Asia, etc. are those perhaps more instructive models?

    9. rise of the illiberals

      the early 20th century had literal monarchies. the mid 20th century had literal fascists. is this period any different? you seem to be forcing the facts into a pre-existing narrative. stick with your sources and see what they say.

    10. f they encounter it,

      have you looked at many college curricula? most general education requirements, particularly at state universities, require some sort of "Western Civ" course. Most nowadays take it as an AP class in High School.

    11. faith

      an odd word choice. should we have "faith" in a historical narrative? narratives, of course, aren't "truth." we have "faith" in things we can't otherwise prove.

    12. about the importance of reasoned discourse, the importance of property rights, the need for a public square that was religiously informed but not theocratically dominated

      that's not true. it applied mostly to white, protestant men. women's suffrage wasn't granted until the early 20th century in the US.

    13. That series encapsulated the Western civilization narrative that people, at least in Europe and North America, used for most of the past few centuries to explain their place in the world and in time

      as they discuss (and as many others have subsequently) that progressive narrative was a construction of the 19th century - laden with the weight of colonialism, imperialism, and racist nationalism that accompanied that project. Notice, for instance, they're all white men you mention...

    14. he series was phenomenally successful,

      does popularity necessarily correlate with rigor? explain your reasoning here.

  3. Mar 2017
      • apocalyptic - this is the day of judgment
      • God's vengeance on America (but why?)
      • likening Americans to OT/ Israelites
      • importance of last line (connection to "John Brown's Body")
    1. He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.

      god wants this battle. he wants cleansing by blood. he wants violence. OT

    2. quite possible that God's purpose is something different

      inscrutability of God

    1. "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

      Psalm 19:9 - god's judgments/ punishments ALWAYS just

    2. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."

      Matthew 18:7 - about charity, about welcoming the least

    3. let us judge not, that we be not judged

      Matthew 7:1 - Sermon on the Mount

    4. wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces

      Genesis 3:19 - Fall of Man, expulsion of Adam from the Garden

    5. were colored slaves

      this is THE theme

    6. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

      will not prophesy. god's will inscrutable.

  4. Feb 2017
    1. Those who talk about Hindu-Muslim Harmony, donít they know that the Muslim attackers, right from the day of invasion to this day, have been continuously fighting with the Hindus

      a clash of civilizations. a struggle that's been going on from the beginning and will continue until the end.

    2. Prithviraj Chauhan pardoned Mohammad Gori seventeen times

      HISTORY/ NOSTALGIA

    3. Nepal, the only Hindu nation, is utterly poor and now, with the help of Pakistan and I.S.I., it has become a center of Muslim terrorists.

      this is part of an international movement

    4. In order to make the Hindus forget their religion, the Christian schools inject the tenets of Christian religion into the tender minds

      now it's taken a more general anti-immigrant/ anti-"foreigner" turn

    5. Donít be under the impression that after these riots they will stop committing such murders and rapes

      this is about protection against intrusive violence. they're violent because of who they (ontologically) are

    6. Therefore, before buying the goods from the Muslim shops think. Wonít you be helping these Muslims indirectly in murdering your own Hindu brothers and in raping your own Hindu sisters?

      economics = politcs = religion

    7. For their shops they take Hindu names

      these aren't real Indians bec NOT Hindu

    8. What is happening in Gujarat is not communal riots but peopleís answer to Islamic Jihad.

      this is defensive violence against provocations by the Muslims.

    9. secular violence which happens during communal violence

      what the hell does that mean?

    10. Before Congress leader Jafriís House was set ablaze, reports claim that there was firing on the mob from inside his residence. (It is) preplanned and the incident seems to be a terrorist activity.

      blame the victim.

    11. economic boycott

      in what way is this "economic?"

    12. They buy arms! They molest our sisters and daughters!

      what do they do with the guns? do they use them specifically to perpetrate sexual violence? (suggested here)

    13. Save the country! Save the religion!

      these are here elided. "Hindu nationalism"

    14. According to the talk heard during the night one more dead body of a girl, also in a terribly mutilated form, had been found. After having raped and mutilated, the body of the woman was set on fire with petrol. Is there no limit to the lust?

      these animals need to be stopped.

    15. police, however, have kept quiet and have not spoken about this sensitive event

      police are HIDING event because they know what this will do. how it will inflame the "righteous" anger of Hindus.

    16. Seeing the dead bodies one knows that the girls had been raped again and again, perhaps many times. There is a speculation that during this act itself the girls might have died.

      holy crap. this is clearly inflammatory. horror/ revulsion --> revenge.

    17. mutilated and terribly disfigured form

      not just that they were killed but that it was done horrifically. racist/ religious violence done to protect female body (as with KKK/ Birth of a Nation)

  5. Aug 2016
    1. I am speaking from the perspective of a young PhD student, not some cranky old professor harking back to the Good Old Days

      young people can have nostalgia too. the first sentence of the article sets the tone.