Author : Jake Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521570333
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (73 download)
Book Synopsis The Christ That Failed by : Jake Wheeler
Download or read book The Christ That Failed written by Jake Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christ that Failed proves incredibly timely as the "Death of the West" and the rise of the extreme racist right, commonly referred to as white nationalism, have become leading topics of conversation amongst many of the pundits, politicians and citizens of the United States and Europe. Recent tragic events in the news have put back into the headlines how cultural and demographic shifts within the West have produced a racial and cultural anxiety among growing segments of the population. Over the previous fifty years, the most extreme and vocal opponents of multiculturalism and nonwhite immigration have been members of the white nationalist movement. However, what is not known to the vast majority of Americans is that white nationalists in the United States have become increasingly anti-Christian, with a great many quite certain that the "Death of the West" and the supposed loss of white racial primacy began not with the abandonment of Christian morality, but instead with the West's adoption of Christian ethics some fifteen hundred years ago. The Christ that Failed is the first study into how and why a growing number of American white nationalists have come to abhor white Christians perhaps more than any other group.Compared to other books dedicated to the American racist right, The Christ that Failed is altogether new as it completely dispels with the widely accepted narrative that organized white supremacy in the United States has been, and remains, a decidedly "Christian" movement. At two hundred pages and drawing on extensive research into primary source materials, The Christ that Fails remains incredibly readable as it traces the ideas and careers of three of the most prominent American white nationalists of the twentieth century, a onetime respectable physics professor, William Pierce, a successful real-estate investor, Ben Klassen, and an imprisoned terrorist, David Lane, and uncovers how these three leaders each succeeded at divorcing American white nationalism from its historic links to the Christian faith. The Christ that Failed is more than merely the biographies of three anti-Christian ideologues. It is a never before told story which will undoubtedly appeal to a great many readers of differing backgrounds. It is a story of how organized Christianity's shift towards social justice in the 1960s came to alienate members of organized white supremacy and outlines how many within the movement sought out religious alternatives. The Christ that Failed also traces the shift within the movement from traditional Christian white supremacist positions, found most emblematically in the Ku Klux Klan, towards a Hitlerian white nationalism that came to dominate the movement by the 1970s. Furthermore, the book proves how in the 1980s a murderous white nationalist terror cell called The Order completely revolutionized the movement and helped to destroy American white nationalism's Christian "Old Guard." Finally, The Christ that Failed looks into the 1990s and 2000s and lays out how anti-Christian positions have come to literally dominate the discourse of American white nationalism. Through extensive and never before seen research, The Christ that Failed demands that the accepted narrative of American white nationalism be rewritten.Jake S. Wheeler holds a post-graduate degree in Modern Western History with special focus on race, nationalism and Christianity in the West. Wheeler currently works as a professor in Northern California.
