Chuck Darwin on Nostr: The TheoBros’ strategy is bottom-up: They aim to convert small American towns into ...
The TheoBros’ strategy is bottom-up:
They aim to convert small American towns into Christian enclaves.
But it is also top-down:
Some are working to position themselves close to the locus of federal power.
#Vance, a Catholic convert married to a Hindu, would seem an unlikely hero for a movement of devout Protestants who believe in a homogeneous America.
But over the last few years, his political orbit has increasingly overlapped with that of the TheoBros
—so much so that to careful observers, his public echoes of their ideas are beginning to sound less like coincidence and more like dog whistles
And those dog whistles signal the major themes of this election:
#hypermasculinity, declining #birthrates, #ethnonationalism
—and no small measure of carefully curated #misogyny.
If you want to know some of the actors who red-pilled Vance, or at least those who flock to him, you need to meet the #TheoBros.
With no meetings, website, or an explicit statement of faith that unifies their beliefs,
the TheoBros are not an official organization.
They identify with 16th-century French theologian John #Calvin, who spawned a rigid and deterministic form of Protestantism.
Julie Ingersoll, a University of North Florida religion scholar, traces the current movement back to
R.J. #Rushdoony, an Armenian American philosopher who popularized the idea of Christian nationalism
(and #homeschooling) in the early 1970s.
Out of Rushdoony’s movement emerged two camps:
♦️the #charismatic Christians, now known as the #New #Apostolic #Reformation,
♦️and the #reformed Protestants, which include the #TheoBros.
They share the goal of creating a Christian nation, says Ingersoll,
but differ on a key point of theology:
Adherents of the New Apostolic Reformation believe that God is still speaking directly to people through pastors who have declared themselves #apostles and #prophets.
The TheoBros, meanwhile, believe that God said all he needed to say in the #Bible.
Many TheoBros are also proponents of #postmillennialism, the idea that believers can ➡️ hasten Jesus’ return by fighting against the satanic forces of liberal excess.
TheoBro #Aaron #Renn, an Accenture consultant turned Christian pundit, has described our current era as a
“negative world,”
where Christians are persecuted for their beliefs.
#Andrew #Isker, another Bro, calls it “trashworld.”
#shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift
They aim to convert small American towns into Christian enclaves.
But it is also top-down:
Some are working to position themselves close to the locus of federal power.
#Vance, a Catholic convert married to a Hindu, would seem an unlikely hero for a movement of devout Protestants who believe in a homogeneous America.
But over the last few years, his political orbit has increasingly overlapped with that of the TheoBros
—so much so that to careful observers, his public echoes of their ideas are beginning to sound less like coincidence and more like dog whistles
And those dog whistles signal the major themes of this election:
#hypermasculinity, declining #birthrates, #ethnonationalism
—and no small measure of carefully curated #misogyny.
If you want to know some of the actors who red-pilled Vance, or at least those who flock to him, you need to meet the #TheoBros.
With no meetings, website, or an explicit statement of faith that unifies their beliefs,
the TheoBros are not an official organization.
They identify with 16th-century French theologian John #Calvin, who spawned a rigid and deterministic form of Protestantism.
Julie Ingersoll, a University of North Florida religion scholar, traces the current movement back to
R.J. #Rushdoony, an Armenian American philosopher who popularized the idea of Christian nationalism
(and #homeschooling) in the early 1970s.
Out of Rushdoony’s movement emerged two camps:
♦️the #charismatic Christians, now known as the #New #Apostolic #Reformation,
♦️and the #reformed Protestants, which include the #TheoBros.
They share the goal of creating a Christian nation, says Ingersoll,
but differ on a key point of theology:
Adherents of the New Apostolic Reformation believe that God is still speaking directly to people through pastors who have declared themselves #apostles and #prophets.
The TheoBros, meanwhile, believe that God said all he needed to say in the #Bible.
Many TheoBros are also proponents of #postmillennialism, the idea that believers can ➡️ hasten Jesus’ return by fighting against the satanic forces of liberal excess.
TheoBro #Aaron #Renn, an Accenture consultant turned Christian pundit, has described our current era as a
“negative world,”
where Christians are persecuted for their beliefs.
#Andrew #Isker, another Bro, calls it “trashworld.”
#shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift