The Mediocrity of Christian Discourse (Part 3)

Yesterday, normal Americans were introduced to the belief in a white cultural genocide and the erasure of white identity that Claremont Senior Fellow Jeremy Carl has been trotting around the Christian podcast scene, to much acclaim, for well over a year. Watch as he tries, and fails, to explain his beliefs during his Senate confirmation hearing, an environment where he surely knows the bombast of his book, The Unprotected Class, will not go over with Republican nor Democrat alike.

If you’ve read Carl’s book, then you know that he possesses (what some see as) coherent answers to these questions. The issue isn’t that he lacks a fully fleshed-out theory, it’s that his book, which attempts to paint the eugenics-based Johnson-Reed immigration act of 1924 as good policy and its 1965 overturn as negative, treats 1960s school segregationists as the victims, and regards the H1-B system as a form of white-collar cultural genocide, is so historically and sociologically fallacious that it cannot stand up to rudimentary scrutiny, as Senator Tim Kaine easily proved.

Again, this didn’t stop these clearly indefensible ideas from getting a very positive airing throughout the supposedly “conservative Christian” podcast scene over the last few years. Here are some notable samplings.

• Blaze Media’s Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey, in an episode titled White People Are America’s Unprotected Class.

• Canon Press’ Doug Wilson and Friends, What Should Be Done About the Whits (referring to the misspelled “Kill All Whits” graffiti on the cover of Carl’s book).

• The Will Spencer Podcast, Jeremy Carl - Erasing White America.

• Method Ministries (hosted by Methodist pastor Lucas Curcio), How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart.

Most notably, Spencer and Curcio have very loudly positioned themselves against the so-called “Reformed” Christian Nationalists—one could say they’ve made it a part of their brand—even though Carl finds much, if not the majority, of his online support among the movement. After all, no organization more prominently supports “Reformed” Christian Nationalism than American Reformer; its board and ranks are so full of Carl’s fellow Claremont fellows that it can be considered an unofficial lobbying arm of the organization.

The reason white-nationalist Christian Nationalism got as far as it did in the Christian media ecosystem is because online “conservative” Christian media, in its obsession with becoming anti-woke, has embraced white grievance politics, and, therefore, endorses the majority of white nationalism’s propositions, often only stopping short of espousing an eugenics-based racial superiority. The average, politically-obsessed Christian podcaster has more in common with the “race-realist” Christian Nationalist than with the average American, the average Republican, or even the average theologically conservative Christian. The average denominational apparatchik, increasingly taking his cues from the Church of the Podcast, is beholden to its cultish enforcement of a political orthodoxy far more narrow than any theological demands, and which the Christian Nationalists are only shifting moderately to the right.

Moments like Carl being easily exposed by Senators given a cursory glance of his years of despicable statements, which reportedly will result in him not being confirmed to a position in the State Department, prove just how intellectually bereft, how politically extreme, how mediocre Christian discourse has become.