23. The News Rug II: The TFP's Favorite Marine and Iran Triggers the Dispensationalists

In TSBU's second edition of the News Rug, Fritz rips up the carpet on two recent U.S. press stories to track the long history of bad trouble underneath them: [2] trad-cath marine John W. Ripley's posthumous medal of honor taking us back to a militant traddy cult from Brazil: the infamous Tradition, Family, and Property, and [2] the news that American soldiers are being told that the war in Iran is about to trigger the rapture, and the terrible fashy network behind it, the good ole Council for National Policy.

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Reading:
◇ Celestini, Carmen. God, Country, and Christian Conservatives - The National Association of Manufacturers, the John Birch Society, and the Rise of the Christian Right. (Dissertation 2018, University of Waterloo)
◇ Hummel, Danielg G.. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013.
◇ Kruse, Kevin M.. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Princeton, 2016.
◇ Lernoux, Penny. People of God : the struggle for world Catholicism. Viking, 1989.
◇ Weinberg, Carl R.. Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America. Cornell, 2021.
◇ Wink, George. Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right. Bibliotopia, 2021.

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