Christians Against Christianity

How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

By: Obery M. Hendricks Jr

Narrated by: Ron Butler

A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology.

Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers.

He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve.

In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.

©2021 Obery M. Hendricks (P)2021 Beacon Press

Critic reviews

"Christians Against Christianity hits hard. Really hard. But it is also measured, thoughtful, reasoned, and carefully presented. The style is concise and evidence-based, with research on evangelical leadership, statements and polled positions of right-wing evangelicals, and serious biblical scholarship."
—Los Angeles Review of Books

“[Hendricks’] most recent book, Christians Against Christianity, is a sustained critique of a group he refers to as ‘faux Christians’: right-wing, white evangelicals. With scholarly precision and an ability to engage beyond the tired critiques of right-wing Christianity, Hendricks imagines a version of Christianity that is politically committed to social justice.” —Sojourner Magazine

“The distinguished scholar and prophetic social critic Obery Hendricks has done it again: he has written a brilliant and heartfelt defense of the Christian gospel that indicts the fakes and frauds who distort it! This book, standing in the great tradition of Martin Luther King Jr., is just what is needed in these decadent times.” —Cornel West, author of Race Matters

Fantastic explication of Liberal Christianity

Obery Hendrix has accomplished important work for Christianity in the present moment of its crisis. He has laid out the biblical and theological foundations of liberal Christianity, and why it is vital. Democratic and prosperous future for our world. At the same time he has eviscerated false gods (e.g., Donald Trump) that have dominated, distorted and now rendered evangelical Christianity anti-Christian.

As Powerful A Book Ever Written

This book is well written, well researched, and well performed. Dr. Hendricks’ prose give a look into the inner working of Christianity in the present and historically. It give context the moral dilemmas of modern Christian Conservatism. It’s also enjoyable to read.

Excellent Book

Well and honestly stated biblical facts that helped me understand and find answers to one of my long held questions about how Cristians could participate and condone slavery and murderous acts against immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and people of color. In God’s love, Thank You for this writing.

Scripture useage.

Amazing, well written and Bible based thoughts. I have listen to over 700 books on Audible but this is first review as this book is that good.

Great Book

Facts we never hear about.answers a lot of questions, just great now I know why things are as they are.

Well informed and eye-opening

As a Christian, I’ve always known that these so-called evangelicals were hypocrites. I get along better with non-believers than those who claim to be holy and moral. Highly recommend this book.

❤️2Life

This book has the truth. Come out of her my People. Come out to live

Timely and informative

Appreciate the interweaving of scholarship and personal experiences to give insight on Christianity\ Christians.

Defender of the Faith

The author does a great job of defending basic Christianity against the right wing evangelicals who now practice heresies such as Christian nationalism and the prosperity gospel. Politics are far more important for right wing evangelicals than loving thy neighbor. The author is a real
biblical scholar with specific references for every point that he makes.

pretty good book

I loved most of the book. the one exception is the chapter on homosexuality. that chapter is one big twisting of Scripture. and it's so bad. we can argue homosexuals should not be harmed from Scripture in the New Testament without twisting Scriptures so badly.