HR!Day396 - Confronting the Enablers of Religious Authoritarianism
- --- Humanity Rising Day 396 - Friday January 21, 2022 (GoTo Bottom)
At this moment, constitutional democracy in the United States is sitting on a knife’s edge between maintaining a democratic republic or succumbing to the tidal wave of authoritarianism that appears to be engulfing numerous nations globally. Enabling this terrifying trend is the Religious Right in America whose members identify as evangelical or fundamentalist Christians. This movement not only threatens the American republic but has served to traumatize countless numbers of its followers who have joined its ranks in order to make sense of the dizzying changes and daunting challenges of our time.
It is now painfully obvious that democracy in the United States is experiencing death by a thousand cuts, and white evangelicals are massively enabling its demise. It is essential to trace the historical context in which Christian fundamentalism arose in the nineteenth century in order to understand how this could happen. Even more urgent is the need to examine how fundamentalist Christianity has severely traumatized its followers and explore specific tools for recovering from it, as well as pondering what actions might be taken to prevent the further decimation of American democracy, enabled as it is by evangelical elements of the Republican Party.
- Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. is the author of Dark Gold: The Human Shadow And The Global Crisis (2016) and Love In The Age Of Ecological Apocalypse: The Relationships We Need To Thrive (2015). With Andrew Harvey, she has co-authored Return To Joy (2016) and Savage Grace: Living Resiliently In The Dark Night Of The Globe (2017), and Saving Animals From Ourselves: Healing The Divine Animal Within (2019). Her previous books include Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths For Turbulent Times (2013); Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition (2011) and Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path Of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse (2009). She lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado and manages her website www.carolynbaker.net. A former psychotherapist and professor of psychology and history, Carolyn offers life and leadership coaching as well as spiritual counseling for people who want to live more resiliently in the present as they prepare for the future. Carolyn works closely with Andrew Harvey and other spiritual luminaries to live and promote Sacred Activism---the marriage of effecting change in the world with consciousness transformation. With Andrew Harvey in 2020 she published Radical Regeneration: Birthing The New Human In The Age of Extinction.
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- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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