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Pennsylvania lawmaker is a Christian zealot, an academic fraud and an insurrectionist. He's the tip of the iceberg

The driver behind Eastern’s down-to-earth approach to social justice could be called simply “the Campolo effect.” Tony Campolo, a seemingly indefatigable whirlwind of canny idealism, came back to his alma mater in 1964 as a professor of sociology. He was soon appointed chaplain as well. Campolo rallied undergraduates at Eastern—and before long, from across the country—to venture outside their classrooms and into the most economically disadvantaged areas of America’s cities. “What ...

Adam Crigler used to feed his YouTube following a politics-free diet of chatter about aliens, movies, skateboarding and video games. Then came the pandemic. Now, he devotes much of his talk show to his assertion that mask mandates are an assault on personal freedom and that Democrats somehow stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Result: a much bigger audience. “The pandemic has made more people want to blame someone else because they’ve lost their jobs or they’re lonely,” Crigler s...

From medieval times to our current crisis, plagues often accelerate extremist movements Marc Fisher, The Washington Post Feb. 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8Supporters of the extremist ideology QAnon wait for a Fourth of July military flyover at the World War II Memorial in D.C. last year.photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein.Show MoreShow Less 2of8A May protest against coronavirus restrictions in Annapolis, Md.Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton.Show MoreShow...

Since ancient times, pandemics have spurred sharp turns in political beliefs, spawning extremist movements, waves of mistrust and wholesale rejection of authorities.

Why Joe Bidens faith-based equity agenda is getting pushback from religious conservatives Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – As President Joe Biden tells it, the nuns who taught the future president based their religious instruction on the Gospel of Matthew: “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” That tenet was echoed during his first days in office, when Biden signed orders to ensure fair tr...

After a portion of the mob entered the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, a handful of men mounted the podium. One of them lifted his hands and cried out, “Jesus Christ, we invoke your name. Amen.” Then Jacob Chansley, sometimes called the "QAnon Shaman," took his bullhorn and announced gratitude to God for being able to “send a message to all the tyrants, the communists, and the globalists that this is our nation, not theirs.” Bare-chested to expose his white supremacist tattoos, he had pau...

So far, Catholics and Jews are plentiful, while White evangelicals and Muslims are absent.