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Vanderbilt professor claims some pro-lifers use Bible to distract from climate change

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An assistant professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, recently maintained that some adherents of the pro-life movement use the Bible in an effort to distract from issues such as climate change while consolidating “white political power.”

Vanderbilt University assistant professor Sophie Bjork-James made her claim during an event titled “(Mis)using the Bible: White Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism in America,” which was hosted by the University of California Los Angeles last Monday, according to The College Fix.

Bjork-James, who was joined by two other scholars during the symposium, is an assistant professor of anthropology with an emphasis on race and racism, evangelicalism and reproductive politics, according to her bio.

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