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🗓️ 21 August 2024
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0:00.0 | Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule. |
0:07.0 | If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you. |
0:12.0 | I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely |
0:15.0 | American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from |
0:20.2 | Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network. |
0:24.0 | What's good, y'all? You are listening to Code Switch, |
0:26.0 | the show about race and identity from NPR. I'm Gene Dembe. |
0:29.0 | On this episode, we're visiting what it means to find your place as a Christian when |
0:35.2 | churches are so racially segregated. |
0:39.2 | If you've listened to us at all over the last couple of years, you've heard a site |
0:46.0 | this nonpartisan polling company called the Public Religion Institute, like a lot. |
0:51.1 | You know that stat, we always throw out about how 75% of white folks |
0:54.1 | don't have any friends who aren't white. That stat comes from them. And they've |
0:58.2 | looked extensively at the racial attitudes of one of the most influential religious populations in this country, |
1:06.0 | white evangelicals. |
1:09.0 | At the Public Religion Research Institute, they did this big survey, they called it the structural racism |
1:14.8 | index, where they ranked respondents on how likely they were to agree with statements |
1:19.8 | like, quote, today discrimination against white Americans |
1:22.7 | has become as bigger problem |
1:24.5 | as discrimination against black Americans |
1:27.0 | and other minorities, end quote. |
1:29.0 | White evangelical respondents, |
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