The pastors who promote MMA describe it as a sport through which to recapture man’s “God given attributes” of “aggressiveness” and “competitiveness.” I couldn’t help but think of Mark Driscoll.
Jessica Johnson
Jessica Johnson has taught classes in Anthropology; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Religious Studies throughout the United States. Her book on the rise and fall of Mars Hill Church, Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire, was published by Duke University Press in 2018. She is currently working on her second book under contract with Duke University Press, Radicalizing White Men: Fascist Desires,
A conspiracy claim that Jews are using immigration policy to replace a country's majority-White population with non-Whites.
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Propaganda, and Transnational Political Violence.