3 Threats Christian Nationalism Poses to the United States

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A recent national poll found that a majority of Republicans favor declaring the United States a Christian nation despite acknowledging such a move would be unconstitutional.

I wrote about why that is a problem. @TIME

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3 Threats Christian Nationalism Poses to the United States)
A national poll shows a majority of one political party favors declaring the U.S. a Christian nation
4:35 AM · Sep 26, 2022

https://time.com/6214724/christian-nationalism-threats-united-states/

In a recent national poll, researchers found that a majority of Republicans favor declaring the United States a Christian nation. In July, Marjorie Taylor Greene made waves on social media when she claimed Republicans should proudly embrace Christian nationalism. Politicians like Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano have increasingly used Christian nationalist rhetoric on the campaign trail, likely due to seeing how well it worked for Trump. It is clear more people are paying attention to and using the term; there were more tweets including “Christian nationalism” in July of 2022 than in all of 2021 combined.

But what is “Christian nationalism” and is it really worth the fuss?

Christian nationalism refers to an ideology that asserts all civic life in the U.S. should be organized according to a particularly conservative and ethnocentric expression of Christianity. Christian nationalism is more than theological or religious beliefs. It includes several cultural assumptions including:

* Strict moral traditionalism focused on sustaining social hierarchies.
* Comfort with authoritarian control—exercised by the “right” people—that includes the threat and use of violence.
* A desire for strict ethno-racial boundaries around who is a “true” American, where non-white and non-natural born citizens are viewed as unworthy of full participation in American civic life. (This is why many label it white Christian nationalism)

Christian nationalism centers and privileges the white, Christian experience. It believes the founders of the U.S. were conservative, white Christian men intent on founding a country where they and others like them could lead and flourish. Now, many Americans believe Christianity played an important role in the founding period or that the founding fathers were religious in one way or another. No reputable historian disputes these claims.


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[cilla4progress]

1. It's starting to run rampant

in my sleepy little eastern Washington town..

[Frustratedlady]

2. I have a major problem putting Marjorie Taylor Greene and strict moral tradition in the same

sentence. You can add Boebert to the same category.

Anyone heard any more about that orgy RW politicians were having on a regular basis? Did they ever come up with a probable list? It sure seems like Repukes spend a lot of time defending their actions in that area of social graces.

I see Gaetz is going to be released from his sexual problems in the legal sense? Wait long enough and those charges seem to disappear, eh? I think I read that his friend and cohort also had charges dropped?

[gibraltar72]

3. Larry Arrn is a great ventriloquist!

[NowISeetheLight]

4. I'm looking around

For alternative locations to live. I refuse to live in Christainistan. Being gay I’m sure I’m one of their first targets.

[lindysalsagal]

5. #1 threat: They'll end school. Period. That's why the cults don't allow their kids to attend school

So they'll be too ignorant and dependent to argue with male white authoritarian rule. And if you've spoken to as many victims of extremist cult evangelicals, it's a systemic litany of abuse, physical, sexual, emotional, every kind imaginable.

[hedda_foil]

6. They forgot to mention the misogyny.

Not all white Christians are equal. In their view, power belongs to white Christian MEN exclusively.