Pat Robertson had cute chubby cheeks, but he was a horrible human being with an incendiary political identity. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discusses on The ...
It has always been there with different denominations fighting for control, not always very publicly.
Generation Joshua has been around since 2003 though and has been actively involved with elections since 2004. I think this is when it really started getting louder. Madison Cawthorn was one of their contributions to politics.
Post-9/11 nationalism really laid a solid foundation for them. Pat Robertson was definitely a big part of that too, they learnt from his campaign against George HW Bush for the Republican nomination. Robertson tried to be the first overtly born-again Christian President but hadn’t built a solid enough base first.
The new documentary Shiny Happy People touches on this history, it’s a good documentary (huge content warning for abuse incl. children). On the surface it’s about the Duggar CSAM trial but it explores a lot of the US political and religious mashup in the last 50 years.
The modern Christian Right goes back at least to the '70s as a major movement, but people were working on it long before. Reagan was their first hero and Roe v. Wade was their galvanizing center, though its success is as much about race as abortion or religion.
It has always been there with different denominations fighting for control, not always very publicly.
Generation Joshua has been around since 2003 though and has been actively involved with elections since 2004. I think this is when it really started getting louder. Madison Cawthorn was one of their contributions to politics.
Post-9/11 nationalism really laid a solid foundation for them. Pat Robertson was definitely a big part of that too, they learnt from his campaign against George HW Bush for the Republican nomination. Robertson tried to be the first overtly born-again Christian President but hadn’t built a solid enough base first.
The new documentary Shiny Happy People touches on this history, it’s a good documentary (huge content warning for abuse incl. children). On the surface it’s about the Duggar CSAM trial but it explores a lot of the US political and religious mashup in the last 50 years.
The modern Christian Right goes back at least to the '70s as a major movement, but people were working on it long before. Reagan was their first hero and Roe v. Wade was their galvanizing center, though its success is as much about race as abortion or religion.