We are living in someone else’s cataclysmic imagination. What happens next?
For half a century, there has been a strategic, resilient, and extremely well-funded movement trying to take over every element of American society, whose aim is to amass extreme wealth and exert control over anyone who isn’t “a believer.” This strange movement trades in demons and devils, prophets and tongue-speakers, Seven Mountain summiting, messianic resurrections, professional exorcisms, and the long awaited rapture. Now, after decades of organizing, this movement has elbowed their way into the very architecture of American government, placing their thumbs on the scales of justice and supporting a president who will execute their will..
Why is this movement so powerful? How has it succeeded in the ways it has? How do we as Jews fit into their end-time visions? Why were there people waving Israeli flags next to people wearing Camp Auschwitz sweatshirts at the Capitol Insurrection? Why are Trump and Bibi pals? Why do these people love Israel so much, but hate progressive Jews? Why are they on a crusade against transpeople and for unborn fetuses? Is this really about religion or God at all?
In this webinar, The Shalom Center’s Rabbi Nate DeGroot will speak with three experts on Christian Nationalism, each coming from a progressive framework, to begin to unpack the questions above. Alexiana Fry grew up in a Christian Nationalist home in Michigan, before leaving the church and its ideology to study Jewish diasporas and Texts of Terror, with a special focus on Megillat Esther. Roan Boucher is an activist, organizer, and facilitator, who teaches on this topic and recently joined adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown on their podcast, How to Survive the End of the World, to discuss whether this is in fact the rapture. And Dove Kent is a long-time Lefty organizer who now serves as the U.S. Senior Director for Diaspora Alliance.
This dream team will discuss what Christian Nationalism is, its history, what it feels like to grow up in this movement, how it’s currently guiding our governmental and extra-governmental systems, including specifically how Jews fit in, why it’s so successful, what we have to learn from it, and how we can forge and strengthen our own movements, to provide an alternative, irresistible vision of sacred justice, that culminates with and necessitates the thriving of all creation.
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