Kristin Rawls profiles Jason "Molotov" Mitchell and his wife, Patricia "DJ Dolce" Mitchell and their brand of Internet-driven dominionism:
Despite the violent rhetoric, the Mitchells are the friendliest—and some of the savviest—people I have ever interviewed. Avid followers of popular culture, they are not Quiverfull-style Christians who isolate themselves from outside influences. They want to emulate the Biblical mandate to "be in the world but not of it." So they laugh at The Daily Show and mention that they would enjoy hanging out with Jon Stewart, whom they consider a political foe. Molotov says he wants to emulate Jesus, who, he says, spoke harshly before crowds but showed compassion when people approached him one-on-one.
I suspect the Mitchells’ success has as much to do with their openness as their extremism. They are not scary, even if their views are. And for those of us who disagree with them politically, it will not do to ignore them. They believe they are following God’s mandate for their lives. They will not be going away any time soon.
One of Molotov's recent unhinged video rants (above) vilified Dan Savage for standing up to Santorum; another urges Ron Paul to sign the marriage pledge. In an infamous video from a few years ago, Molotov supported Uganda's "Kill The Gays" bill. Alyssa Rosenberg rallies the left in response:
Christian hipsters have been getting the anthropological treatment at least since Jeff Sharlet wrote about the "New Virgin Army" in Rolling Stone in 2005, the same year the New York Times profiled Jay Bakker. Earlier this year, the paper looked at a hipster-tinged Lower East Side evangelical church. In other words, it’s not really news that people who have tattoos, piercings, good haircuts and cool clothes believe that Christ is their savior and adopt hipster aesthetics to reach their target audiences. Thinking like this is one of the reasons I think progressives need not to get lazy about culture: it’s not enough to assume that our aesthetics and narrative power are just going to keep automatically bringing people over to support good policies and progressive worldviews.
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