True Origins of the Religious Right

[@Revolver1701]

The lecture was 14 years ago. I’d like to see it updated for today.

[@jankragt7789]

I just read Randall Balmer's book, A perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion & English Culture in the Middle Colonies. It is excellent and even highly relevant to today. A history simply unknown but highly polarized politically, & wild and crazy with a cross-dressing-like-Queen-Ann governor who was always trying to control the churches, and a homosexual(in behavior not "identity") evangelical leader of the Great Awakening. Somehow reading it was a great comfort that we will get thru our present travails. This talk is also well done. Thank you. It is not the whole story of evangelicals however. Many evangelicals, I would say MOST are not/were not consumed by politics and cover a spectrum of views. These are the powerful people $$$$$$$$$ & one of many power-obsessed movements. But Balmer's criticism and narrative of this time are worth weighing. Very interesting and different.

[@bradchapman2626]

People who teach children, that the torture and murder of an innocent man to free the guilty is the highest expression of love, frighten me. (Psalms 90:11)

[@pequodexpress]

Too many people have forgotten Paul Weyrich, whose imprint is on much of what we see unfolding today.

[@marionkeenan2980]

What an excellent lecture. It explains many contradictions I have come to question about the movement.

[@catsaresocute650]

Let's re-phrase: the threat to their ability to subject woman to a fait they knew they would never freely choose was more imprortant than any civil rights struggle.

[@slashingkatie7872]

I wish more people watched this.

[@lerryperry]

You should share it on your social media platform.

[@mrwelsh55]

I recommend this video whole-heartedly. Thank you, Dr. Balmer!

[@michaelRay2576]

This speaker has thoroughly & precisely given a full account of the short comings & deception of the religious rights movement. . His referencing Green vs Connolly is essential to his lecture. His conclusion statement of the failing of the religious right is riveting . 💯👍🏾👍

[@riversonglovesthedr]

I am using this video with my children for homeschooling as we study politics but also religion thanks!

[@grayarcana]

A most excellent and well scholastically disciplined discourse: I consider myself better informed.

[@yvonnesimerman844]

Thank you for posting this. It's a good example to discuss social movements that are conservative/traditional. I've been looking for something like this to use in my course called Social Problems.

[@joem5386]

"The Religious Right took the lovely and redemptive words of Jesus and turned them into something ugly and punitive." There's no better way to say it.

[@alexanderw.1003]

Completely wrong. Nobody in the Bible speaks more often about hell than Jesus Christ. The Religious Right understands more about Christianity than all the leftist snowflake-"christians".

[@Irishmule169]

@@alexanderw.1003 So you believe the abrahamic fairytales?? Enjoy your chains !!

[@Primitarian]

What a testament to the integrity of this man that he was able to emerge from the evangelical tradition with his thought so uncorrupted! If he could do it, so could others.

[@rosesprog1722]

Fascinating yet unknown history, thank you.

[@CarolinaNIM]

This is one of the best videos made on the history of the Religious Right. I watch it repeatedly. He's very right about how Evangelicals did not rise against abortion until the rise of Reagan toward 1980. I became very much part of Evangelicalism in the early 1970s but the only outcry I remember then about abortion came from a Catholic friend of mine who was upset about the opening of an abortion clinic in our town.

[@ChibiHoshiDragon]

People seem to forget that Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (Protestant ministers, Jewish rabbis, and dissident Catholic nuns and priests; of the Protestants there were several churches involved. Judson Memorial Church, United Church of Christ, American Baptist Church and the Alliance of Baptists, just to name a few.). was an organization that would help women find safe illegal abortions Pre-Roe. They were the largest referral service back then and even helped drop the prices to make them more accessible. Post-Roe, they were the FIRST to open a legal Abortion Clinic (Legal Abortions were previously only done at hospitals).

[@drlobomalo]

The key moment in US Christian Right history was in 1979 when Israeli PM Begin gifted Jerry Falwell a jet airplane.

[@tracysample6942]

That's crazy.

[@Irishmule169]

The religious right have a deep seated desire to be enslaved!!!

[@JSV-pr4qo]

Share this video people. Spread the word.

[@JonBrou]

Good work recorded in this video!

[@jimbob5848]

Outstanding presentation. Lived through these times as current events junkie. Spot on.

[@billbillerton6122]

I lived through them as well. I'm eagerly awaiting its return. The pendulum is swinging back.

[@oudguitar]

Hmm Interesting Lecture, Nice supplement after reading hedges American Fascists. I was definitely not aware how seemingly random the idea of being against abortion was in the religious right. Thanks for sharing!

[@danmiller6462]

Dr. Balmer did a very interesting lecture. He mentioned the aspects of the religious right that I never knew existed. I hope the religious right soon fades off into the sunset. Church and state must be forever separate. His exposure of them and their agenda should help.

[@kaydenpat]

Thank you fur breaking down this important history. It’s interesting how racism played a role in the rise of the Christian Right. And we see the same racism now with the strong support of White Evangelicals for Trump.

[@superduperjoi6800]

Yup

[@lauraly2712]

@kaydenpat, This is hardly a break down of history. What this rabid hater and attacker of the Religious Right talks about here is what has become his regular attempt to discredit and vilify the Religious Right. You can expect in that effort for there to be claims that racism is the prime mover of that movement. Clear factual evidence of that aren't considered necessary by critics like this preacher of Hate; it simply goes along with the definition the left has established for the Right. "They're racist and no discussion about it." Were Balmer not on the attack of the Right he would probably not be hardly noticed and likely not invited much. As I'm writing this commentary Balmer is attacking the Catholic Church for not having given Biden its unreserved endorsement. Forget its age old teachings. Dr. Balmer knows better what is moral and who is closer to what Christ taught. Everything, everybody else must be condemned and eradicated. Typical dogmatic leftist. Never mind that Biden has quite a slew of very racist comments in his past.

[@lightlover33]

You are koolaided beyond your intelligence.

[@JohnnyBeeDawg]

LOL

[@brockkobe9594]

I know I am quite randomly asking but does anybody know a good place to stream new tv shows online ?

[@jacksonaktak]

I always found it odd why evangelicals make the issue of abortion a priority. By the way they behave you would think it's on every second page in the Bible, but the reality is that the Bible does not even mention it. The few verses evangelicals cite to support their strong anti-abortion stance are not actually about abortion, you can only make it about abortion indirectly or in a very contrived way. One would think if God considered the issue as important as evangelicals make it out to be then he would have clearer messages about it. Meanwhile evangelicals ignore whole issues that are much more empathic in the Bible. So I already assumed this issue has rather political reasons and origins. I suspected it might have to do with men's desire to maintain their control over women. Contraception in general helped women to take control of their lives, be able to study, work and not be dependent on men. Churches do not necessarily like that, and I think that might be the origin of Catholic stance not only against abortion, but birth control in general. I didn't know the racism connection of this issue, so thank you for this lecture.

[@newtreena]

This is it.... Control women control the world.

[@thelastshallbefirst6531]

@@newtreena actually this is more about increasing the White American population numbers in the USA.

[@jikkh2x]

He can bloviate about racism but in 1975 a large majority of Americans disapproved of interracial relationships. So what?

[@WPAPi3.14]

March 25, 1965 March of Selma Alabama Jerry Falwell delivered sermon Sunday really about racism and segregation. 😠

[@hleeclay]

This is very interesting and insightful.

[@MeilseoirSchwartzthal]

Enlightening. Important piece of information, the missing piece, if you will. My only reservation is the use of the word "religious" as if it was actually interchangeable with Christian. I will always remind people that they are not the same thing.

[@katejudson8907]

Has echoes in Australia in 2020.

[@bigtoine45]

Does anyone know the name of the documentary that covers the history of evangelical evolvement in politics? I think it was from the BBC. It looks like "The Power of Nightmares".

[@willfourth]

You have true power in a society in which you get to pick and choose what issues you will "make a stand on".

[@paulwilkinson1539]

Very interesting; I never knew this history ( I am not American btw...)

[@4Dada]

Quite an astute observation. It is a polarisation that has occurred. As one becomes more strident, so does the other. The voice of those in between has been rather silenced.

[@carlpen850]

"Blessed are the Cheese Makers, for their's is the Kingdom of Heban"... let's face it, god loves his cheese

[@JSV-pr4qo]

How can these people sleep at night ?!

[@eleatashepherd3463]

Thank you very much for reposting this ,I have never seen or heard about. However you have Confirm most of my Biblical beliefs. Racism has always existed because of they Jealousy of the Strength and knowledge of the Brass Skin PEOPLE. The Catholic church knew that they had changed the COLOR OF JESUS and the TRUTH of the teachings of the BIBLE. The EVANGELICALS came along when the Catholics CHURCHES were Changing they ways . I remember searching for the TRUE CHURCH. I remember listening To THE WORLD TOMORROW WITH TED ARMSTRONG, REV .BILLY GRAHAM, Rev.Jimmy Swaggart oh boy this Rev was good worshipped service was soooooo good and then came the shocker .. Look these evangelicals REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE PARTY is just as how it always was VILE AND GODLESS. ALMIGHTY GOD NEVER IN HIS WORD OR BY SPIRIT EVER FORCE ANYONE TO DO ANYTHING AGAINST THEIR WILL.. ALMIGHTY GOD SAID ; CHOOSE THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE: YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS: BUT IT IS YOUR CHOICE AND YOURS ALONE; No one has the Right to choose another's Destiny.

[@georgegrubbs2966]

Jerry Falwell was key in putting religion in politics.

[@MichaelLantz]

How come The Religious Right does not exist in Europe,Japan or South Korea or many Asian countries?I never understood that.

[@LittleImpaler]

They do.

[@jared1964]

They exist in Latin America where they are even more viciously bitter when it comes to issues like abortion, gay rights, and the separation of church and state.

[@phillipthompson7911]

Love this video

[@lindateuling7862]

This is, in my opinion, very well-done and objectively. As someone who is the same age as George W. Bush Jr. and Bill Clinton, I find this to be quite accurate.

[@dylanharding6859]

Linda Teuling euè

[@chrishachet8622]

well done!

[@cmasseylynch]

When Paula White Jerry Falwell put their hands on Trump and prayed for him.Trump acted pious and played along.Later he said to Michael Cohen." Can you believe people believe that bullshit?"-page 133 Cohen's book Disloyal.(worth reading this book.)

[@Aloha96746]

Thank you .. will do

[@RicardoGomesRodrigues]

My personal history is similar to of all my fellow countries in the neighborhood as for Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and so on. Back 32 years ago, with a doctor degree from George Washington University and working at the world bank, life looked promising. Then, America crushed me to the point of been slander in the streets of Washington DC and as consequence I lost not just the job but the working visa and to return no Brazil to fall in the hands of cruels militaries and my also of Family. America knew that what will be of me if had to return. After all, nobody end up to live a few miles from the White House without America knowing very well who I was and Why I was there. I dove deep into a mightmare of a miserable contry under control of pederasts in uniform. Somehow I manage to survive and every day since then I have ask to myself: "Why America has done that to me." Millions always have intered the country trying to escape persecution of all kind. America has never forced anybody out but did that to me! Why...? Well, this World is not divided between Democrats and Republicans but between Have and Have not. I am Have not, I guess. But now, at the age of 64 I know better. America's beacon of civilization is Comunist China.

[@rosesprog1722]

The USA cares for no one, read about Operation Keelhaul at the end of WW2, how the Brits and the Yanks sent Russians to the USSR even if they knew they would all be killed, a situation similar to yours I suppose. It is those who claim to be the defenders of freedom and democracy who are their worst enemies.

[@RicardoGomesRodrigues]

@@rosesprog1722 You're right . Betrayal belongs to friends never comes from enemies. In the case of Brazil, the USA has a miserable historical records of betrayals. As Brazil fought in World War II with the Americans, from 1950 onwards huge investments in the country made Brazil on the path of industrialization. In 1980, Rio de Janeiro had the most expensive square meter in the world and Shanghai was very poor. Today it's the reverse. Overnight, they focused their investments on their former enemies, Communist China, making them the superpower of today. They made Brazil an agrarian country governed by an agribusiness plutocracy to serve as a reserve market for Yankee industrial products produced in the maquilas of Communist China. Rio de Janeiro is today as poor as Shanghai was before, dominated by narcotics and corrupt politicians. What hurts the most is that these schemes were premeditated by the American State itself. They didn't want an industrial power south of their borders. This also explains my case. In my last job at the World Bank I made a technical compilation that served as a model for investors to switch from the Mainframe model to the client-server model. This explains how Microsoft rose and IBM fell. They appropriated my work, eliminating me as if I had never existed. You see it all explains Latin America and Brazil today

[@rosesprog1722]

@@RicardoGomesRodrigues Yes, the depravity of the US regime (I love calling it a regime ha ha) is limitless, in fact, sttistics say that since 1776, they have been at war 93% of their existence, after all, this is a country based on the genocide of millions of natives and the hard work of millions of slaves, which they still consider to be correct and moral. One of their best coup though was to send Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys to Chile as soon as Allende was killed out of the way of AT&T's profits and replaced by Pinochet, a poor soul who also thought the US was his ally. Unfortunately for the people, the new leaders soon realized that the economists sent to rebuild the economy did just the opposite, and won the Noble prize for it!!!!! Pure insanity. There is a channel you may like here on YT, it's called "Tales of the American Empire" and it talks about the 1964 coup in Brazil and many other insanities of the kind. Cheers, from Canada.

[@RicardoGomesRodrigues]

@@rosesprog1722 Isn't it funny that in the end a simple increase of 10 cents on the subway in Santiago de Chile has triggered a social crisis that lasts until today. Neoliberalism was the worst economic and political regime ever created. They pushed everyone to the economic precariousness of the 19th century in terms of Salary, Employment and Income. What seemed brilliant at the beginning ended with massive unemployment in Latin America and Europe which is trapped in a fiduciary trap (Euro), where no one can print money. Thus, Communist China sinks without having a market to sell to, since European middle class is destroyed. How was their motto? Greed is Good! Indeed!

[@rosesprog1722]

@@RicardoGomesRodrigues The problem is that in 1945 at the end of WW2 the top generals of the U$S army went to see pres. Truman who had no idea what being president meant and told him that if he didn't keep a war economy system after the war the country was at grave risk of falling back into a depression much worse than before the war and that history would hold him responsible for it... Poor man Truman had no idea what they were talking about so he said "Okay" Since then, military budgets have increased constantly and weapons is the only product now sold by the US so the only way to keep the US economy alive is to fight every war possible around the world and if there are no wars, to invent some, the war on terror was a masterpiece in that regard, increased budgets and no real enemies and THAT's what a permanent war economy is all about. The US now has over 7,000 nukes when it would take 5 to destroy Russia and more than 1,000 military bases all over the world, ready to intervein anywhere, at any time. I read a few years ago that the military spent more on air conditioning alone than the whole budget given to NASA for space exploration! Makes no sense at all. BTW, I don't call China communist, they're more capitalist than anyone on earth right now and the last time I checked, they were quite generous with Africa, much more than the US ever was. IOW, I see the US as a danger to us all, not China, they wouldn't last a day in a war with the US. Cheers.

[@ComradeAgopian]

Yeah , that whole free speech , and freedom to engage in the political process thingy , really sucks !

[@xiaodongwang7753]

The evangelical dalliance with power is a tragic mistake!

[@johnvicky]

Taxing them might be a solution, they obviously have too much money and time on their hands.

[@Bass60thrar]

Was he the narrator for the PBS series "The Glory and the Power: Fundamentalism Revealed," that was broadcast in the 1990s?

[@superduperjoi6800]

GREENE V CONNOLY I NEVER KNEW THIS EXISTED UGH

[@superduperjoi6800]

Bob Jones university in Greenville south Carolina this is my home wow. 1971 Cleveland Tennessee is still the home for Church of God. Punishing Interracial dating is de facto segregation. Say that "subculture" is not biblical. Paul Wyrick

[@User0resU-1]

As they say: "follow the money". That was their biggest fear - losing tax exemption. They call it greed.

[@paolo27th]

Very interesting stuff.

[@roccobrick]

Incisive, thought provoking and hope that every evangelical will listen carefully to the summation - especially the last thirteen minutes!

[@grahamlindsay1263]

Libertarianism has left their fingerprints all over this picture. I read some material published by Ralph Lord Roy during December 2019, answered a lot of questions in my mind.

[@WhatAboutThemApples]

The reason abortion worked with the Bible Belt was because it was a "States Rights" issue, not based on any morality. The people who tried pushing to get the Bible belt on their side first tried using school segregation as a wedge issue to win over the South in the early 70s but that failed but if they could guise the "States Rights" in a less divisive issue (at least at that time) it would be a Dog Whistle for all those people who were upset about the Civil Rights Act, while just issue about the morality of abortion for those who didn't want to go anywhere near race relation issues.

[@jikkh2x]

All historical polling data shows a large majority of Americans disapproved of black and White relationships in the 1970s. So what’s that about “Dogwhistling” to over 70% of the population?

[@bigtoepapa]

Sharing

[@rdifazio]

For a more in depth examination of this subject, I highly recommend the book, "Republican Gomorrah" by Robert Wright.

[@andybray9791]

By the way we are going nowadays, we make the late Jerry Falwell sr look normal

[@4Dada]

You cannot use science to examine the content of what is in the Bible. You need literary, historical and redactive tools to do that. The men and women who wrote the various books of the bible were the more literate ones of their people otherwise, how could they write this stuff? It was those who grouped those writings together and called in the Holy Bible are the ones who had an agenda.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

1:56 That's Me.

[@andybray9791]

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[@Morrislca2011]

Our biggest and strongest right is our religious right, it's a foundation of life, a protector and a door to the truth, we ought to understand it, increase in its knowledge and exercise it in every activity of our lives so that a man or women can have the free will benefits and wisdom of the truth.

[@roder51]

+Morrislca2011 That sounds like your truth.

[@HConstantine]

+Morrislca So you had no idea what the video was about? Don't know the difference between the right and a right?

[@mikepublic111]

+HConstantine -- The Christian Right thinks they have the right to impose their beliefs on the rest of us, but they're not right.

[@ohbrother8530]

HConstantine I NO he didn't watch the video. But I do NO how to spell NO correctly.

[@johndemeritt3460]

@Rhonda Renee , I would argue that the attacks on 9-11 were perpetrated by people who identified as Muslim, but were seduced by teachings taken out of context from the words of the Prophet. But if the attacks were not perpetrated by people who identified with a particularly fundamentalist sect of Islam, who did make those attacks?

[@philipdressler9639]

And how they hate sons that r deformed because of alcoholism and aunts hate in catholic church

[@chief4able]

@ zaxxxon Except for all the books that they kept out of the bible

[@dondotboyd]

Sorry the truth isn't as exciting as wall-to-wall lies.

[@phillipthompson7911]

I'm a Christian I'm an independent probably more of a democrat

[@WPAPi3.14]

Wife of Tim laheye (author of left behind series) fcc regulations. Laheye suspicions. Phyllis laffy no era. Beverly laheye started group not feminine.

[@mikeschroepfer8956]

How far do you want to go back? The wall of separatoin between church and state is based on bes historuy, a metaphor which had proven useless as a guide to juding. - Chief Justice William Renquist 1984 Reverandd Jonas Coark pastor and militia caption stood on Lexington Green to give the redcoTS THE SHOT heard round the world. The redcoats refered to this war as a presptrtian parson's rebellion. You can have a seperateon between church and state, but NOT a seperation from goverment and religion, it a matter of WHICH religoin. Do we murder the unborn? A sin in God's eyes? How long will he allow us to continue this slaughter? Sam Adams said the blessings of liberity is only workable for a just and moral people. Look at where we are now< We have sown to the wind and reapted the whirlwind,.

[@RellBlunt]

If he said”rise of the WHITE EVANGELICAL RIGHT” this would be perfect.

[@timothylines3867]

see[the dozier school for boys]evil south.

[@ctbarfield]

Dr. Balmer is a very boring speaker. If you force yourself to listen to him, you gradually realize that he is not only reporting the HISTORY of a political-religious movement, he is also criticizing it. Whenever he sees a way to attack these people (usually for inconsistency) he does so. Whenever a fact does NOT lend itself to attacking them, he merely states it and plods right along to the next thing. History is different from polemics--even really BORING polemics!

[@johndemeritt3460]

ctbarfield, it would be more correct to say Rev Dr Balmer is critiquing the Evangelical Christian Religious Right political movement. It's entirely fair for him to point out the inconsistencies in their positions, as it makes the history clear: that the Religious Right is a political movement swaddling itself in religious garb.

[@moodist1er]

The guy saying polemics starts his comment with insults, lol. I blame the parents.

[@jikkh2x]

@@johndemeritt3460 I don’t see the inconsistency between opposing slavery and having a no interracial dating in school policy. Apparently Rev Dr Balmer with the child bearing hips thinks there is? It’s an oppression tactic to try to connect everything/one you dislike to something horrible, to justify your horrible behaviour.

[@johndemeritt3460]

@@jikkh2x, if you see no inconsistency, why have a dating policy at all? After all, the policy prohibiting interracial dating is rooted in the notion that there should be no mixing among "races". If you oppose slavery, but believe that your "race" can be "polluted" by "racial" mixing, your policy communicates the idea that there are superior and inferior races. Oh, and I'm curious about something you added to describe Rev. Dr. Balmer: the phrase, "child bearing hips". What's that got to do with anything?

[@jikkh2x]

​@@johndemeritt3460 You’re hung up over some notion of supremacy. That is tangential to whether you like or dislike race mixing.

[@philipdressler9639]

The catholic church was revoked for not letting me marry a woman after college

[@WPAPi3.14]

New aboligist Roman Catholic 1972 Iowa Catholic said meeting in at Louis abortion for many reasons southern Baptist convention 1974 and ? W b Garrett wrote moral majority green v Connelly civil rights act irs any organization June 3 1971 segregated school racial discrimination not tax exempt. Bob jones Cleveland Florida didn’t want taxes. Rules. It’s 1975 April 6 January irs taxed bj university back to 1970 weyrick generate prayer abortion changed their mind Carter denied private schools tax exemption. 1970’s Christian colleges raise $$ cause no fed $ no tax. Fed govt in business. 1990

[@michaelh4227]

Answer: Satan.

[@zakariazaki7513]

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[@henochparks]

Bogus

[@newtreena]

What do we do now? Trump....ugh