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• Anti-Black racism remains the engine beneath the movement’s worldview, shaping everything from immigration rhetoric to foreign policy myths.

• Trump-era narratives have thoroughly inverted moral language.

• Institutions hungry for proximity to power will manufacture legitimacy for authoritarianism when traditional moral authorities refuse to play along.

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Tim Whittaker and guest host Dr. Jemar Tisby open the door, and what follows is a reckoning with a version of Christianity that survives only by severing itself from Jesus’s actual words. Once that split is exposed, everything else snaps into focus—the selective use of scripture, the erasure of colonization’s economic legacy, the habit of treating white stability as a sign of divine favor while dismissing African nations as inherently broken. The conversation pushes past the usual dodge of “they’re not real Christians” and instead insists on holding this movement accountable as Christian, precisely because it has operated for centuries with theological cover. That lens makes it impossible to miss how anti-Blackness and economic exploitation were fused into the nation’s foundation and why those patterns still surface whenever Trump praises Denmark but sneers at Somalia. The same inversion appears again when a FIFA president constructs a “peace prize” for a man escalating conflict, proving how easily institutions will deform themselves to flatter power when moral courage is absent.

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Tune in to the full episode of The Tim and April Show! Tim Whitaker is the founder of The New Evangelicals, and April Ajoy is the author of Star Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism And Finding True Faith.

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