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Thursday, March 5th, 2020

How Christian nationalism is driving American politics

Author:     Paul Rosenberg
Source:     Raw Story
Publication Date:     February 29, 2020
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Stephan:   It is my view that Christianity in America is in crisis, the principal reason being that U.S. "christianity" has very little to do with Jesus' teachings. "Love your fellow, "Do unto others," "Suffer the little children." You hear the quotes but not the actions. Instead, this cult is about White Supremacy, male dominance, and political power. Attitudes like that are exactly what the Founders feared, and why they worked so hard to build the firewall between church and state that Pence and the other cultists are trying to tear down. Even worse this cult is against science, because it does not accord with 4,000 year old Middle Bronze Age Abrahamic thinking.

Credit: Rolling Stone

In early 2018, after a year of confusion over why Donald Trump had been elected, Clemson sociologist Andrew Whitehead and two colleagues provided compelling evidence — which I wrote about here — that “voting for Trump was, at least for many Americans, a symbolic defense of the United States’ perceived Christian heritage.” That is, it represented “Christian nationalism,” even when controlling for other popular explanations such as “economic dissatisfaction, sexism, anti-black prejudice, anti-Muslim refugee attitudes, and anti-immigrant sentiment.” The puzzle of why white evangelicals voted for Trump so overwhelmingly turned out to have a simple explanation: It wasn’t their religion that he championed — Trump is conspicuously not a person of faith — but rather its place in society.

Now, Whitehead and one of those colleagues, University of Oklahoma sociologist Samuel Perry, have a new book taking their research approach much further: “Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States.” Donald Trump doesn’t figure as a central subject […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 10:47 am

    These so-called Christians do not realize that Jesus Christ was more of a Socialist than anything else. Jesus believed in equality, just like real Social Democrats do.