A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing
evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a
pernicious, destructive ideology.
Today’s right-wing
Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message
of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity,
best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr.
challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own
religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and
misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia,
their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims,
and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of
American workers.
He scathingly
indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the
notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court
jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who
unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter
how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve.
In the wake of the
deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians
Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the
hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians
to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus
brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative
diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’
aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat,
not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they
offer to America is anything but good news.