Emily Garmon’s Reviews > Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation > Status Update

"Palin's candidacy, however, raised the issue of gender. For evangelicals who believed in male headship, was it appropriate for a woman to be in such a position of power? If the alternative was Barack Obama, then the answer they gave was yes." (Pg. 236)

Insane. But having grown up in the church, this doesn't come as a surprise to me.

"Steeped in a literature claiming that men were created in the image of a warrior God, it's no wonder evangelicals were receptive to sentiments like those expressed by Jerry Falwell in his 2004 sermon, 'God is Pro-War.' Having long idealized cowboys and soldiers as models of exemplary Christian manhood, evangelicals were primed to embrace Bush's 'cowboy approach' and his 'Lone Ranger mentality.'" (Pg. 185)

"But wherever evangelicals drew the line [on modesty], women were judged for their failure to uphold the ideal. Evangelicals had far less to say about male modesty. Instead, they emphasized the rewards that awaited boys who waited. A message of delayed gratification was at the heart of purity teachings for adolescent boys." (Pg. 170)

"Conservative evangelicals knew they were being called to fight the Lord's battle. It just wasn't entirely clear what that battle would be." Lol.

God, no wonder we are where we are. All these so called "Christian" leaders drove this country into more rampant racism, classism, homophobia, and capitalism.