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1. This @washingtonpost piece on Kaepernick's vs. Tebow's Christianity unfortunately decolves into false equivalence washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/a…
2. Meaning that WaPo, once again, ends up coddling toxic Evangelicalism, b/c that is what WaPo does. What's with the "come together" appeal?
3. Michael Frost's analysis starts to go south when he suggests that the social justice Christianity of Kaepernick lacks personal piety.
4. There's one small problem with that (apart from it being a false dichotomy on its face). Even in the article Kaepernick's piety shines.
5. Frost has to do these ridiculous logical gymnastics, you see, because he needs there to be a problem with Kaepernick's Christianity.
6. If there's no problem with Kaepernick's Christianity, Frost will not be able to produce a neat and tidy schema that redeems Tebow's.
7. So Frost conjures up this entirely artificial model in which Kaepernick's and Tebow's Christianity each have something the other's lacks.
8. Frost's solution? Come together! Heal the divisions! Why can't Rev. Dr. Barber and Robert Jeffress just get along? We're all Americans?
9. Like the white moderate's privileged gradualism MLK criticizes in Letter from Birmingham Jail, Frost ultimately protects the status quo.
10. I think Frost does so because he, like WaPo and most US MSM and polite US culture, refuses to face Evangelicalism's white supremacism.
11. Frost is following an all too pervasive formula that insists we must not go too far in criticizing white/conservative Evangelicalism.
12. This view refuses to see that white Evangelicalism is authoritarian in nature and toxic through and through. Saying so is not "civil."
13. Here's the uncomfortable truth. Kaepernick's Christianity does not need anything from Tebow's. Tebow's is irredeemable. #EmptyThePews
14. As an ex-Evangelical, I know Evangelical authoritarianism from the inside. I know its complicity in white supremacy. #LeftTheFold
15. I know conservative Evangelicalism's rigid patriarchal hierarchy, its anti-LGBTQ animus, its pervasive culture of abuse.
16. And the MSM are doing us a disservice by continuing to treat conservative Evangelicals as mainstream instead of a threat to human rights
17. Do better, @washingtonpost. At least balance your coddling of conservative Evangelicals with ex-Evangelical perspectives and voices.
17. Meanwhile, #ImWithKaepernick. #TakeAKnee, and if yours is a toxic Tebow and Trump church, #EmptyThePews. End thread.
*devolves. Gah I hate when I make a typo in the first tweet of a thread.
*18. Whoops. I hate when I screw up thread numbers.
19. I've written this critique of WaPo's coverage of Kaepernick vs. Tebow as a blog post you can share off Twitter: chrisstroop.com/2017/09/25/the…

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Oct 1, 2018
1. I just sent out this month's newsletter for all @Patreon patrons who support me with a $5 or higher monthly pledge. If you find my work valuable and would like the inside Stroop scoop, please consider joining them!

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#Exvangelical #SundayThoughts
2. At the end of the last academic year, I faced a choice--move back in with my parents in Indiana to pursue the freelance writing and speaking opportunities I was getting more of, or adjunct at the University of South Florida for low pay and no benefits. Or find something new.
3. Here's a thread with some of my life story up to the present. The travel to Austria next spring to do a semester of research mentioned in it fell through despite me having been promised it for years.

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Sep 29, 2018
Another reversal of an improvement for LGBTQ acceptance in an evangelical institution (World Vision is the other one I have in mind). Evangelicalism doesn’t change its patriarchal ways. It just casts out the people who would make it better.

#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #Resist
Of course Wheaton might be the more direct parallel.

time.com/4233666/wheato…

#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews
For more on the authoritarian enforcement of hardline conservative orthodoxy at evangelical colleges, see my latest for @Playboy:

playboy.com/read/want-to-k…

#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #SaturdayThoughts
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Sep 19, 2018
I also RT requests for financial help fairly often. Unfortunately, many in the #Exvangelical community have needs and are hampered by lack of education, meaningless degrees, or lack of professional experience outside evangelical institutions. The social costs of leaving are high.
I don’t want or expect anyone who can’t afford it to give, and I don’t want anyone to feel obligated; even just RTing those requests is immensely helpful. It is my hope that someday we’ll have some kind of foundation to fund #Exvangelical projects and meet needs. #EmptyThePews
Sometimes crowdfunding is all that stands between an #Exvangelical and homelessness, or being forced to return to a toxic, abusive living situation. That’s the uncomfortable reality. I do make small donations myself to almost every fundraising request I amplify.
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Sep 13, 2018
“We have to put citizens at the heart of our response to disinformation.” - Nina Jankowicz (@wiczipedia) at the Indiana Council on World Affairs.
One thing social media sites should be doing is providing a simplified approach to their terms of service so that users can provide informed consent.

Enforcement of terms of service also needs to be consistent, and cannot he left to algorithms alone.
Social media platforms should step up to pay for human processes re: terms of service violations and appeals. Democracy is at stake.

They can also embrace more of an educational role with respect to information literacy.
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Sep 7, 2018
September is a big month! I’m at the airport on my way Florida for The #Exvangelical Community: Paths, Projects, Prospects. In the last two days I’ve filed two pieces with editors, and this week I did podcasts w/ @NiceMangos and @kitchencultpod (@haettinger and @mxdarkwater). #FF
Next weekend I’ll be in Charleston, South Carolina to give a talk for @CHShumanists, and am very much looking forward to that! October is also pretty full!



#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #FridayFeeIing #FF
And next week I’ll also be doing a second podcast episode with @TwistedSisterds! It’ll be my second time on, and I sure had fun last time!

twistedsisterds.podbean.com

#Exvangelical #FF
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Aug 28, 2018
1. A few thoughts on Trump's dinner in honor of evangelicals, which I'll be discussing with @RickSmithShow later. Key context to consider is that fascism is concerned with defining who belongs to "the nation" or "the people," and who doesn't. Internal enemies (Others) are needed.
2. This dovetails neatly with the way in which fundamentalist believers police who does and does not count as a member of their religious confession. This is critical to understanding the Christian Right's politics of "religious freedom":

3. Indeed, as I have written elsewhere, "Fundamentalism is authoritarianism in microcosm, or on the margins. Fascism is essentially fundamentalism in power." The vast majority of white evangelicals are authoritarian and fundamentalist.

chrisstroop.com/2017/03/06/edu…

#EmptyThePews
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