
Preparing for War
The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
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Bradley Onishi
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By:
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Bradley Onishi
The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture's preparation for war. Religion scholar and former insider Bradley Onishi maps the origins of White Christian nationalism and traces its offshoots in Preparing for War.
Combining his own experiences in the youth groups and prayer meetings of the 1990s with an immersive look at the steady blending of White grievance politics with evangelicalism, Onishi crafts an engrossing account of the years-long campaign of White Christian nationalism that led to January 6. How did the rise of what Onishi calls the New Religious Right, between 1960 and 2015, give birth to violent White Christian nationalism during the Trump presidency and beyond? What propelled some of the most conservative religious communities in the country—communities of which Onishi was once a part—to ignite a cold civil war?
Through chapters on White supremacy and segregationist theologies, conspiracy theories, the Christian-school movement, purity culture, and the right-wing media ecosystem, Onishi pulls back the curtain on a subculture that birthed a movement and has taken a dangerous turn.
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Have mercy on this Nation!
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It was only after starting a program in theology that he realized that much of what his church had been doing and teaching was not well-founded in religious history or scripture.
He gives us a history of how Evangelical white churches were steeped in racism and homophobia, which eventually attached itself to a belief that America was founded as a Christian nation. He doves into a variety of presidents and how they helped to elevate the movement and how the church as a whole became much more political and militant over time.
The author’s narrative is clear and compelling and a bit terrifying. The motives he describes to the January 6 attackers rings. True I would love to give this book to my adult children to read as they need to protect our democracy into the future.
Clear, detailed primer on the history of the Christian, white Nationalist movement
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I also learned a bit more history behind the movement than I already knew, such as James Dobson’s connection to eugenics and the American Redoubt migration.
Next…to check out the podcast. Well done, Sir!
I know these people well.
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