Christian Nationalism keeps popping up; It's based on faulty history and theology

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/02/christian-nationalism-is-result-of.html

In a recent survey of more than 6,000 Americans by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institute, 64% of white Evangelical Christians were found to be either firm supporters of Christian nationalism, or sympathetic to it, from agreement with statements such as these. Among Protestants of color, 52% are either considered adherents or in sympathy with Christian nationalist beliefs.

In my Evangelical background, such statements would be taken for granted as true, without any question of their veracity and without requiring any of the support from the biblical text that other doctrinal statements require among them. Most Evangelicals are biblical literalists, believe in the inerrancy and infallibility of the biblical text, and develop their doctrine and theology out of this approach to interpreting the Bible.

But when it comes to Christian Nationalism, which a majority of them see as a matter of settled orthodoxy, the threshold for biblical support, or for historical evidence, drops down to almost nothing. And if biblical text is cited for support, it is usually something from the Old Testament taken completely out of context.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Pretty straight forward, the christofascists create the history and cherry pick the....

scripture to justify their fascist hatreds, fear mongering, scapegoating and demand for a christian theocracy and dictatorship.

[RicROC]

2. i call them Nationalist Christians; Nat-C, for short

[Jrose]

3. Using 'christianity' as a cover-up

I remember the episode of world history when a group declared themselves to be the superior race, attended church, forcibly took control of a nation and silenced, imprisoned and murdered those who were not Christians, not whites and not heterosexual.
Their bible was actually Mein Kampf.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. And it's about power,

not religion.

[Igel]

5. Increasingly, yes.

Then again, they're assimilating.