Amid the hopes, dreams, and lives shattered when the twin spires of America’s cathedral of capitalism crashed to the ground on September 11, 2001, was evangelicalism’s easy accommodation with Old Testament genocidal “texts of terror.”1 This was played out on full camera when Jerry Falwell, making an appearance on The 700 Club, reflexively attributed the deadliest terrorist attack on Americans in history to God’s judgment. He blamed “pagans and abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians
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