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

“As religious leaders like Hyles championed a militant application of patriarchal authority...militant masculinity linked religious & secular conservatism. In time, the two would become difficult to distinguish. As red-blooded American manhood became infused with God-and-country values, otherwise secular models would come to exemplify an ideal Christian manhood.”