(236)S11E3/4: The Racist Underpinnings of the Religious Right w/Dr. Randall Balmer
I had the privilege of speaking with historian Dr. Randall Balmer about the history of abortion and the Religious Right.
0:00 - Preview and highlights for episode
4:05 - Intro
9:00 - Conservative political fervor was not due to abortion
14:50 - Political leaders admit that political fervor was not about abortion
20:30 - Conservatives didn't realize power of abortion until very late
29:00 - Evangelical propaganda wielding "religious liberty"
32:20 - Why does it matter how we arrived at the truth of abortion?
39:20 - Evangelical's history with social justice
50:50 - Abortion hides racism through a victimization/persecution complex
0:00 - Preview and highlights for episode
4:05 - Intro
9:00 - Conservative political fervor was not due to abortion
14:50 - Political leaders admit that political fervor was not about abortion
20:30 - Conservatives didn't realize power of abortion until very late
29:00 - Evangelical propaganda wielding "religious liberty"
32:20 - Why does it matter how we arrived at the truth of abortion?
39:20 - Evangelical's history with social justice
50:50 - Abortion hides racism through a victimization/persecution complex
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- Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bgzN5XJdpAE0gKYY08frJ6unEpQedLdj3bQKQ9gdtlw/edit?usp=sharing
- The King's Chapel and the King's Court: https://www.religion-online.org/article/the-kings-chapel-and-the-kings-court/
- Abortion History: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480
- Holy Post interview with Dr. Balmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmx-UKtGLR8
- Falwell's Ministers and Marchers sermon: https://liberty.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17184coll4/id/4090/
- Color of Compromise which is specifically about the church: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52609333-the-color-of-compromise?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Ser6xgvQS2&rank=2
- Reconstructing the Gospel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36579595-reconstructing-the-gospel?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kQhtfCMhMB&rank=1
- One Nation Under God by Kruse: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22928900-one-nation-under-god?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=7IT4aspt0l&rank=1
- White Flight by Kruse: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/345070.White_Flight?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=7IT4aspt0l&rank=2
- The Evangelicals by Fitzgerald: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753872-the-evangelicals?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=vCAcXpJOQF&rank=1
- Bad Faith by Balmer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56672921-bad-faith?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=fI4jPSEbqC&rank=1
- Racist origins of the Religious Right: https://amc.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/Balmer%20-%20Historian%27s%20Pickaxe.pdf
- God in America PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-god-in-america-six-of-god-and-caesar/
- And a lot of others. You can check out my goodreads lists on race, propaganda, and evangelicalism
- Video Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-bH1Xatvp0&t=122s
- Don't Judge Too Quickly Commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP8NRgWtPaE
- Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicago_Declaration_of_Evangelical_Social_Concern
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- Jesse Killion
