![]() Reading the book, which includes numerous accounts of such abuses by white American evangelicals, was a depressing experience for me. ![]() ![]() Please know that this is not a formal review but a personal response.ĭu Mez’s basic, overall thesis is that white American evangelicals by and large fell into an ideology of militant masculinity combined with rabid Americanism that let to all kinds of terrible things from rampant abuse of women and children by Christian male leaders (and non-leaders who followed them), to attempted cover ups and false justifications of such abuse, to the election of a president with a history of misogyny including admitted sexually aggressive behavior toward women (and other terrible things). I finally finished reading “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation” by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.
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