Republicans & Trump have thrown Evangelical Christianity into a full-blown crisis

Republican politicians are doubling down on exploiting religious people, and its now killing churches in a way not seen in living memory.

We've watched absolute depravity wash across our politics over the last few decades, promoted by the same politicians who wave a religious banner to get votes.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Can Depraved Evangelical Christianity Reform Itself or Should It Just Go Away?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" by Jeff Sharlet.

Article: "Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever" by Rick Wilson.

Article: "U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time" by Jeffrey M. Jones.

Article: "What Did Jesus Say About Politics?" by Randy Hasper.

Article: "As 'Jericho Marchers' descend on Washington, local faith leaders brace for attacks" by Jack Jenkins.

Article: "James Madison And Church-State Separation" by Rob Boston.

Article: "How white evangelicals' vaccine refusal could prolong the pandemic" by Elizabeth Dias, Ruth Graham.

Article: "Private jets, 13 mansions and a $100,000 mobile home just for the dogs: Televangelists 'defrauded tens of million of dollars from Christian network'" by Nina Golgowski.

Article: "States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates, study finds" by Dareh Gregorian.

Article: "The Founders Confront Judge Moore" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "No Religious Test Clause". "...but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

Article: "Wicca" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Myanmar" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." - Matthew 6:5-6".

Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Unity Church" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) " by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria" by Wikipedia.

Book: The God Spot by Dean Briggs.

Article: "List of people with epilepsy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joan of Arc" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Francis of Assisi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John of the Cross" by Wikipedia.

DVD: Dalai Lama Renaissance (narrated by Harrison Ford).

Article: "Golden Rule" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America" by Peter Farb.

Video: Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Article: "Freedom From Religion Foundation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "James Madison" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."" - Genesis 1:26.

Article: "With reluctance, Israel's president tasks Netanyahu with forming a new government" by Shira Rubin.

Article: "MS Senator Defends Georgia's Rollback of Sunday Early Voting By Claiming Policy Breaks One of the Ten Commandments" by Reed Richardson.

Article: "Schumer Says The Parliamentarian Greenlit His Filibuster Workaround. That Could Be Huge" by Kate Riga.

Article: "55 major companies paid zero federal income tax in 2020: watchdog" by Niv Elis.

Article: "Janet Yellen Proposes Bold Idea: The Same Minimum Corporate Tax Around The World" by Scott Horsley.

Article: "Manchin Says He Won't Back Biden's 28% Corporate Tax Rate" by Yuval Rosenberg.

Article: "Manchin's Tax Move Could Protect Private Equity Donors" by David Sirota and Andrew Perez.

Video: A History of Disbelief: Atheism Documentary Episode 1.

Article: "Bill Maher, noted atheist, rips Trumpism, QAnon as 'magical religious thinking'" by Joseph A. Wulfsohn.

Article: "Biden to announce all US adults vaccine-eligible by 19 April – US politics live" by Joan E Greve.

Article: "Trump administration refused offer to buy millions more Pfizer vaccine doses" by Guardian.

Article: "CNN's Jake Tapper Says Trump's Success With Vaccine Doesn't Erase 'Derelictions Of Duty' On COVID Response".

Article: "Thank two Turkish immigrants for one of the COVID-19 vaccine" by Robert Shaffer.

Article: "Americans' Worry About Catching COVID-19 Drops to Record Low" by RJ Reinhart.

Article: "Super infectious Kent Covid variant could cause chaos in US by triggering 'new pandemic', expert warns" by Tariq Tahir.

Article: "Growing concern over COVID-19 variant infecting children" by CNN.

Article: "Mask-Wearing Represents Fear and Blind Obedience, Not Science" by Dennis Prager.

Article: "The mask's insidious symbolism" by Alison Nichols.

Article: "COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations on the rise for young adults in Orange County" by Troy Campbell.

Article: "Nuremberg Code Establishes The Principle Of Informed Consent" by Cengage.

Article: "1976 swine flu outbreak" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Guillain-Barré syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Facebook took down 1.3 billion fake accounts in three months" by Noah Manskar.

Was Derek Chauvin Trained In How to Safely Respond To People Having a Crisis?
- Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, former prosecutor and legal/political commentator

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Derek Chauvin trial live: Minneapolis police use-of-force instructor says officers weren't taught to put their knee on neck as Chauvin did" by N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Tami Abdollah, Kevin McCoy, Grace Hauck and Eric Ferkenhoff.

Article: "Attorneys argue over whether friend with George Floyd on day of arrest must testify at Chauvin trial" by Paul Walsh.

Hour Three: Science Revolution: Much of the West is in a decades Long "megadrought"...what happens next?
- Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Member-National Academy of Sciences / author of several books including including his latest just out, The New Climate War / (previously, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy) / Recipient of the Tyler Prize

Article: "1 big thing: A very, very, very dry future for the U.S. West" by Bryan Walsh.

Article: "Wildfires closing in on Portland suburbs force massive evacuations" by David Knowles and Melissa Rossi.

Article: "A year round fire season?" by Robert Westover.

Article: "2019–20 Australian bushfire season" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Droughts in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "El Niño" by Wikipedia.

Article: "La Niña" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Details $2 Trillion Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and Reshape the Economy" by Jim Tankersley.

Bible: "Exodus 20 : Ten Commandments".

Bible: "Matthew 25".

Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jesus Christ: Was The Savior Buried In Kashmir, India?" by Palash Ghosh.

Article: "Efraín Ríos Montt" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in," - Matthew 25:35.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Pfizer, BioNTech: Vaccine is 91% effective against COVID-19" by Aimee Picchi.

Article: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nathan Bedford Forrest" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Manifest destiny" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Climate change and agriculture" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pentecostalism" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: Heretics.

Article: "Unitarianism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Biden: America's second Catholic president" by Anthony Zurcher.

Bible: "And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." - Mark 12:17"

Article: "Exodus 20:10-11 | What and When is the Sabbath?" by Jeff A. Benner.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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Police Chief Questioned at Derek Chauvin Trial (w/ Debbie Hines)