'Jezebel Spirit': Christian Nationalists Paint Kamala Harris As Demonic Using Term With Racist, Misogynistic Roots

[Nevilledog]

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/jezebel-spirit-christian-nationalists-paint-kamala-harris-as-demonic-using-term-with-racist-misogynistic-roots/

Christian nationalist leaders are telling followers that Vice President Kamala Harris is under the influence of a “Jezebel spirit,” using a term with deeply racist and misogynistic roots that is setting off alarm bells for religious and political scholars.

The concept is inspired by the biblical story of the evil Queen Jezebel, who persecuted prophets and was punished with a horrible death. The word “Jezebel” was used during slavery and throughout U.S. history to describe Black women, casting them as overtly sexual and untrustworthy.

In the context of “Jezebel spirit,” the term has sinister connotations, suggesting the person is under the influence of demons in a spiritual battle between good and evil. People who have studied the Jan. 6 insurrection warn that similar rhetoric on spiritual warfare drove many to the U.S. Capitol that day.

“People … are hearing this woman is possessed by a demonic spirit that is hardcore, terrible, hates men, hates authority, is going to do whatever she wants to do,” said Anthea Butler, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book “White Evangelical Racism,” who has studied the New Apostolic Reformation.

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[surfered]

1. Whackos!

[bdamomma]

2. Enough

with the hate.

[bigmonk]

3. Flow

"Christian National Socialist" It just flows together.

[polichick]

4. Humans are so easily conned. Good grief!

[Biophilic]

5. Well, that's a surprise. Misogynistic and racist.

It’s what these people have been from the early 1800s. It still amazes me how they continued on over the years but kept themselves basically below the radar. They have simply been bidding their time. Evil people.

[duncang]

6. I guess they explain away

TFG’s rambling as speaking in tongue.

[Mossfern]

7. Someone should

gift them a subscription to Jezebel magazine.

https://www.jezebel.com/

[keithbvadu2]

8. White Evangelical Racism,... Will JD Vance deport his own children?

Will JD Vance deport his own children?
Like Obama, his children are mixed race and Republicans do not consider Obama to be white.
Vance apologized to his right wingers that his wife is not white.
Obviously, to republicans, they do not qualify for white Christian nationalism.

[SheltieLover]

9. Weirdos and creeps

[struggle4progress]

10. "Oh, look!" said Jane. "See! See flames shoot from their mouths like forked tongues.

Smell the sulfur smell when those people speak! Oh, look! I see a rider on a pale horse, and his name is Death, and Hell follows after him! I think maybe this is not good"

[maxsolomon]

11. Jezebel Spirit is a great track off the Byrne/Eno collaboration My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

from 1981.

Check it out, the Excorcist starts at about 1:03 :

[Jim__]

12. "People ... are hearing this woman is possessed by a demonic spirit ..." Who does that make look bad?

Kamala? Or the idiot making the claim?

[Vogon_Glory]

13. IMO however this election turns out, Fundamentalists and Evangelicals will be

Coping with the political stench of Christian Nationalism for decades to come whether they aligned themselves with it or not.