{"id":7769,"date":"2019-10-03T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T04:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2021-01-24T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:14:00","slug":"why-someone-might-actually-want-a-new-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/10\/why-someone-might-actually-want-a-new-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Why someone might actually want a new civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2019\/10\/03\/trumps-evangelicals-bewail-a-civil-war-while-still-profiting-from-the-last-one\/\">an opinion piece published on Religion News Service<\/a>, historian John Fea, a progressive Christian evangelical and an expert on evangelical history in the U.S., offers some pointed commentary on right-wing evangelicals like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/10\/very-careful-in-the-words\/\">Robert Jeffress<\/a> and Franklin Graham who are warning of &#8220;civil war&#8221; should Donald Trump be impeached. In response, Fea offers a historian&#8217;s view of why right-wing evangelicals like Jeffress and Graham might welcome a new civil war:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[Robert] Jeffress\u2019 own First Baptist Dallas, with its long history of segregation \u2026 was built upon a Civil War fracture that has not yet healed. Under his leadership, it has failed to confront its long-standing commitment to racial injustice in any meaningful way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece published on Religion News Service, historian John Fea, a progressive Christian evangelical and an expert on evangelical history in the U.S., offers some pointed commentary on right-wing evangelicals like Robert Jeffress and Franklin Graham who are warning of &#8220;civil war&#8221; should Donald Trump be impeached. In response, Fea offers a historian&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/10\/why-someone-might-actually-want-a-new-civil-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why someone might actually want a new civil war&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[743],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-christian-nationalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7772,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}