She says, “In 2016, many observers were stunned at evangelicals’ apparent betrayal of their own values. Her book is not a compassionate, pointed critique of sin, the happening and mishandling of abuse and violence, the falls of the powerful, consumerism, Christian nationalism, or unbiblical prescriptive “gender roles” (whatever this means anymore) nor is it an urging to evangelicals to return to and hold fast to biblical principles (because she never checks in with what the Bible teaches), but rather, Jesus and John Wayne is an accusatory reviling against an entire group of people, condemned by transplanting the sins of “evangelical” leaders and assuming motives and beliefs of “all” their apparent followers-identified distinctly by their ballot in 2016. Paired with the mystery of what KDM actually believes about the Bible, I’m not sure how much of her worldview I want to ingest. It is clear Kobes Du Mez (KDM) is writing to ruffle feathers.Īlthough feathers need to be ruffled, her writing, dripping with disdain for white evangelicals and all things Christian, and her blatant, contemptuous bias single-handedly discredits to me any important and rightful critiques she makes. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a NationĪ provocative title.
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