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A Professor Researched Charlie Kirk for Years... Here's What He Discovered. [View all]
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Matthew Boedy was targeted by Turning Point USA in 2016 and listed on its professor watchlist after speaking up against allowing concealed guns on college campuses. As one of the foremost experts on Turning Point USA and its founder and CEO Charlie Kirk, Boedy exposes their role in perpetuating Christian nationalism in the United States and the threat to democracy they pose. With a background in journalism, an MFA in creative writing, and a PhD in rhetoric, he is a dynamic and experienced scholar whose first book, Speaking of Evil, explored the evolving rhetoric surrounding evil. Boedy currently teaches rhetoric and composition courses at the University of North Georgia and lives in Gainesville, Georgia, with his wife and two daughters.
About his book, The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy:
A sobering assessment of the evolution of Christian nationalism. Publishers Weekly
Exposing the decades-long plan to radically transform America, from Bill Bright and Loren Cunninghams 1975 seven mountains vision to Charlie Kirks 2020 praise of Donald Trump for embracing it, The Seven Mountains Mandate reveals how prosperity preachers and political operatives are destroying democracy under Trumps second administration.
The movement to install a populist strongman in the White House with a game plan for enforcing right-wing policies and catering to evangelical Christians started well before Donald Trumps first candidacy. For decades, a well-funded network of religious and political operatives has been quietly working to dismantle democracy and replace it with Christian theocracy. Their strategy? The seven mountains mandatea plan to seize control of seven key pillars of American society and reshape the nation.
Scholar Matthew Boedy exposes how this movementdriven by prosperity preachers, extremist politicians, and right-wing power brokerslaid the groundwork for Trumps presidency and is now advancing its agenda under his second administration. From local school board elections to billion-dollar megachurches, this multipronged effort is reshaping the country in ways most Americans dont even realize. Discover what has motivated the key players in this movement, how theyve operated, and what is the unprecedented role of millennial kingmaker Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and the new face of Christian nationalism and the seven mountains movement, who believes that we finally have a president who understands the seven mountains of cultural influence.
Todays news is so much more than the scattershot orders of an extreme administration. With Project 2025 policies in motion, the seven mountains movement is closer than ever to its goal of turning America into a Christian nationalist state. Leaders of this movement have been playing a long game, undermining democracy to establish a theocracy, but its not too late to halt their progress and reverse the tide. This book reveals whats happening behind the scenesand what you can do to stop it.
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A Professor Researched Charlie Kirk for Years... Here's What He Discovered. [View all]
AStern
Nov 1
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The summary/text is much appreciated. Good scholar & the christian dominionist movement is theocratic & authoritarian.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 1
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Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites
Norrrm
Nov 1
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