{"id":41823,"date":"2026-04-08T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41823"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:21:21","slug":"jim-guth-quoted-in-reuters-about-religious-rhetoric-surrounding-the-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/jim-guth-quoted-in-reuters-about-religious-rhetoric-surrounding-the-war-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Guth quoted in Reuters about religious rhetoric surrounding the war in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As tensions rise in the Middle East, so too is the religious rhetoric surrounding the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran. In church communities across the nation and even in the White House, the war is increasingly being framed as a battle between good and evil, with frequent invocations of God. Furman University&#8217;s Jim Guth explains the phenomena in an article first published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/evangelicals-amplify-trumps-religious-framing-iran-war-2026-04-08\/\">Reuters<\/a> and carried by other news organizations like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digestwire.com\/2026\/04\/08\/analysis-evangelicals-amplify-trumps-religious-framing-of-iran-war\/\">Digest Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/global-trends\/evangelicals-amplify-trumps-religious-framing-of-iran-war\/articleshow\/130109919.cms\">Economic Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/news\/shareable-stories\/evangelicals-amplify-trumps-religious-framing-of-iran-war\/article_dd11f9de-0810-59c4-bacf-e04b0ec7805f.html\">WISC-TV<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2026\/04\/08\/politics\/washington\/us-iran-war-trump-evangelicals-holy-war\/#google_vignette\">Bangor Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guth, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Politics and International Affairs, says Trump&#8217;s base remains influenced by faith-based narratives. \u201cLook at Mr. Trump\u2019s standing in the polls and recognize he only has a little more than a third of the public on his side,&#8221; Guth says. &#8220;A big part of that constituency is made up of white evangelical Christians.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman politics expert Jim Guth weighs in on the surge in religious rhetoric swirling around the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1817,32,2225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-times-india-times","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-reuters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41894,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions\/41894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}