American Christian Nationalism
Examining the threat it poses to the entire country
Christian nationalists pose a grave threat to the future of both the United States and the future of the human species. If that sounds dramatic to you, consider the following:
“GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Donald Trump loyalist from Georgia, told an interviewer on July 23, 2022, that the Republican Party ‘need[s] to be the party of nationalism. And I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.’
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Similarly, Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, recently said, “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church.’ Boebert called the separation of church and state ‘junk.’
Many Christian nationalists repeat conservative activist David Barton’s argument that the Founding Fathers did not intend to keep religion out of government.”1 If you want to understand what happens when religious fundamentalists get a hold of too much power, look at Afghanistan as an example.
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