Christopher Douglas

Christopher Douglas is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, where he teaches American literature, and is the author of If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right. Follow him on Twitter at @crddouglas and read his other work at https://uvic.academia.edu/ChristopherDouglas.

Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’

Christopher Douglas

We are all like Sanders and other conservative white evangelicals insofar as we all have confirmation bias, making it difficult for us to accept evidence contrary to what we already believe, but the history and faith practices of white evangelicals offer an additional set of tools of belief.

Does Romans 13 Controversy Call the Adequacy of the Bible Itself Into Question?

Christopher Douglas

Better historical context just compounds the question of the adequacy of this Book, given its wildly divergent ethical uses.

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Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?

Christopher Douglas

It’s not that Republican politicians and strategists had become convinced of critical theory’s questioning of how scientific knowledge is produced. It’s that their desire to undercut the “realist attitude” and their love of uncertainty about the true had appeared to strangely dovetail with some postmodern theorists.

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

Christopher Douglas

It wasn’t Christianity that helped make Republican voters more likely to be duped, but susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism.