66. Did God Do That or Did Men? Part 1

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Monte Mader (0:04)

Like, this is a club.

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Monte Mader (1:20)

We are in the United States with approximately 13 million members gathering in Florida to vote for the fourth consecutive year on whether to formally write into their constitution that women cannot hold pastoral positions of any kind. At the same time, the Turning Point USA Women's Leadership Summit was also in session somewhere else in this country. So, featuring career women, women who are paid tens of thousands, two millions of dollars to speak, to advocate online, to be an influencer, to write books, to give opinions. They build their careers, their platforms, speaking circuits and public profiles, telling other women not to do that exact same thing because, well, God told them. These two events happened at the same time. And I want you to understand that I'm not surprised by this because I have been studying this playbook for years. I grew up in this playbook. It does not shock me at all that while the Southern Baptist Convention meets to push women out of leadership, the Summit for Women's Leadership from Turning Point USA gets together to pay women hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell other women to submit, be quiet, and don't usurp headship. The audacity is also making me want to throw my microphone a little bit. Welcome to Flipping Tables. I'm Monte.

You've heard me talk about this before. I'm going to do a little bit of a deep dive. We're going to talk about history, biography, religious deconstruction, the ugly truth about power, but we're also going to talk specifically today about the Christian nationalist lie, about what the US is, who we are, and why it is always opposed to women's rights. Today on Flipping Tables.

Well, hello, everyone. Welcome back, or welcome for the first time. If you're here, thank you so much for the recent shares and reviews that have been coming in on the show. I really appreciate it. Every time you share this show, it really helps me keep everything moving and growing in a really meaningful way.

And I appreciate that. A couple updates. So I've been doing yesterday's news, my kind of 15 to 20 minute news recaps on Patreon. I added that as a perk for them, but it's also free on Substack. It's my way of trying to help people stay informed about feeling overwhelmed or get the opportunity to take a break from their phone or from social media.

Working a lot on Substack as far as, I will be doing a lot more writing, long form writing, kind of giving a little more nuance to certain topics, deep diving into decisions and news that's running around, but also talking a lot more about my story and the hope I have moving forward. And as always, I'm teaching two Bible studies a month. You can go to Crowdcast and find my page. It's just under Monte Maeder. And you can see the classes that are upcoming.

We're doing a long series on how we got the Bible, going through every book of the Bible and addressing its origin, its authorship, its moment in history, translation issues, contradictions.

It's a very, very fun thing. And as of today, today is June 23rd that I'm recording this. I will be speaking at the National Organization of Women's Conference on the 26th.

And then I will be leading a live chat at Stonewall in New York with Tad Sturmer for his upcoming book, The Resistance History of the US. Just a shameless plug for him here. He doesn't know that I'm going to say this. A phenomenal book, but it addresses specifically the resistances in American history that actually worked. And they didn't work by following the rules. And it's a really, really interesting read. I'm actually going through it my second time now, so prepare for that event. And then have quite a bit of travel in July. So before we dive in to the real meat of the episode, I want to distinguish two different things. And that's Christianity vs. Christian Nationalism, because these are two entirely different things. In fact, I am of the opinion that you cannot be a Christian Nationalist and a Christian. So Christianity, of course, is a religion. It is a faith tradition with scripture, theology, practice, and almost 2,000 years of documented history.