Some people are finding new things to worry about. Or maybe it’s something they’ve been worried about for their whole lives and just decided to share with the world on X—now that the notion of Creeping Christian Nationalism has become a resounding theme in the ruling class echo chamber:
Unbeknownst to most Americans, it turns out that Christian Nationalism is a threat to “our democracy”. Not your democracy, you say? Then whose democracy is that? The usual creeps, you might say. Creepy NPR and PBS seem especially exercised about this “threat”, judging from the first page of search results. I guess that’s the whole point of “creeping”. First they wish you a “blessed night” and the next thing you know they’ve crept up and enshrined freedom of speech and free exercise of religion in some weird new amendment to the Constitution. Or something like that. The solution is to be on a hair trigger level of alertness to the threat. Some might call it paranoia …
Tracing the rise of Christian nationalism, from Trump to the Ala ... - NPR
Feb 29, 2024 Christian nationalism, including an extreme version advocated by the group the New Apostolic Reformation, the NAR, has become influential in American government and parts of the judicial system ...
Christian nationalism on the rise as it enjoys more Republican ... - NPR
Christian nationalism is a worldview that claims the U.S. is a Christian nation and that the country's laws should therefore be rooted in Christian values. This point of view has long been most ...
Opinion: Christian nationalism poses an alarming threat today
Today Christian nationalism seeks to blur, and eventually erase, the division between church and state. If successful in its quest, the long-term results will easily impede the independence of all faith ...
3 Threats Christian Nationalism Poses to the United States
Sep 26, 2022 September 26, 2022 7:00 AM EDT. Whitehead (@ndrewwhitehead) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at IUPUI and author of the forthcoming book, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays ...
An 'imposter Christianity' is threatening American democracy
Jul 24, 2022 But the notion that the US was founded as a Christian nation is bad history and bad theology, says Philip Gorski, a sociologist at Yale University and co-author of "The Flag and the Cross ...
What is Christian nationalism and why it raises concerns about ... - PBS
Feb 1, 2024 White Christian nationalism has been in the headlines quite a lot as of late. Brad Onishi is a former evangelical minister who once identified as a Christian nationalist himself. He left the ...
The relentless focus on White Christian nationalism is spreading a ...
Feb 3, 2024 The relentless coverage of White Christian nationalism is spreading a racist myth: that Whiteness is the default setting for evangelical Christianity. This is one of the unintended consequences of ...
A Group of Christians Are Fighting Christian Nationalism | TIME
Dec 30, 2022 December 30, 2022 7:00 AM EST. O n Jan. 6, 2021, Amanda Tyler watched the attack on the U.S. Capitol unfold with a growing sense of dread—and recognition. Like many Christian leaders, Tyler, the ...
The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Authoritarianism
Dec 25, 2023 The forces of Christian nationalism are now ascendant both inside the Church and inside the Republican Party. By Tim Alberta. Zeb Andrews / Getty. December 25, 2023. Share. Save.
Christian Nationalism Goes Back Further Than You Think | TIME
Aug 31, 2023 To fully understand the deep roots of today's white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493—not the year Christopher Columbus "sailed the ocean blue," but the year in ...
The Impact Of Christian Nationalism On American Democracy
Feb 29, 2024 Onishi became a Christian nationalist and a youth minister in his teens and then left the church. He is the author of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism ...
What is wrong with you people who criticize a blessing? Atheism is devastatingly dangerous because you hate everyone who isn’t you. Christians don’t hate you.
Little did I know that when I fled Chicago 12 years ago and moved to the wealthiest and most conservative (related?) county in Tennessee, this is what I landed in. /s
"Williamson County is defined in large part by the Christian faith of the majority of its residents. But a dissenting voice is Franklin Community Church pastor Kevin Riggs, a vocal critic of right-wing ideologies — specifically evangelical dominionism, noting that he sees Williamson County as “the capital of Christian nationalism.”"
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/right-flight-williamson-county-is-a-hotbed-of-far-right-political-power/article_d566a1a8-ff17-11ed-b9a8-9f954b9f2d01.html