Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

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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.

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2.3
51 reviews
Ryan Bagnal
September 5, 2021
This book is complete and utter apostasy. He calls fundamental Christians "right-wing." Fundamental Christians are simply those who take the Bible at face value. He also accuses Christians of "hating" those with whom they disagree. That is nonsense. True Christians love people enough to tell them the truth that Jesus died to fogive them and set them FREE from sin, not to forgive them so that they could continue living IN sin. He also accuses all fundamentalist Christians of being racist. That is so ignorant and offensive that it deserves no answer. The Bible is written plainly, and it says what it says. The very person (the author) who accuses evangelical Christians of twisting the Bible is in fact doing that himself. Lastly, he insinuates that there is more than one way to heaven and that everyone of every religion will go to heaven. Obviously this is apostasy. This book is nothing but a liberal playbook that excuses all kinds of things that the Bible condemns while giving people a false sense of security that they are actually saved. This book is keeping the lost from seeing the truth and being saved. It is ultimately leading people to hell.
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James
August 12, 2021
Being described as an acvitist is fitting for this author. For anyone with common sense would not ascribe politics to our faith. While there is a liberal view of Christianity it is not a political but a religious view that holds probably close to what this author holds. However, the liberal Christianity that is so popular with certain people is not proper Christianity. And what this author considers Right-Wing are only traditionalists. Something that is actually quite Biblical.
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Marty
November 19, 2022
Jesus Christ himself would be considered far right and on the ADLs website for hate speech. He flipped the money tables at the synagouge of usury, he called out the high phraises, calling their father Satan. Called them liars. The Jews killed Christ because he was a threat to their establishment. Stop thinking Christ was meak and tame. He was like a roaring fire. God hates weak men.
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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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