Christian Nationalism: How Evangelical Christianity Became a Political Religion

[lees1975]

https://baptistnews.com/article/christian-nationalism-how-evangelical-christianity-became-a-political-religion/

I love to see people within Evangelical Christianity working to set the record straight. It's a difficult job to try and undo something that is not actually built on loyalty to the faith itself, but on misconceptions and outright false doctrine that is so much a part of the identity of the Evangelical branch of the church. It is perpetuated by fear and long standing mistrust of education and information.

[walkingman]

1. Good article - the problem is getting anyone that thinks like this

to read it. My experience from my own family is they know very little about the history of their religion and really don't care to - they learned this as a child and this is what they believe - period.

IMO, that is what has always made religion dangerous.

[czarjak]

2. Being raised Evangelical-Pentecostal, everything you need to know is in The Bible...

The Book that nothing beats that The Donald hasn’t ever read. But, he claims to be one. And The Boobs believe.

[keithbvadu2]

3. MAGA evangelicals/Christians

[lees1975]

4. Interesting photo.

Four of those gathered around him are embroiled in either sex abuse or financial scandals.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

5. LOL Good luck with that

The entire religion has a long history of being overtly political, so why tsk-tsk the evangelicals for doing what the religion has for literally centuries now?

I mean, really, did you miss how they hooked up with Constantine for more power--and to get their religion declared the sole official one of Rome?

Did you miss, well, all of European history? The wars that entire nations (political entities) fought in the name of that one religion? How that one religion had say over who became political rulers over nations, and even who they married? How their moronic taboos were enshrined into law (again, politics!)--and how they had the state (a political entity) carry out punishments on their behalf (INQUISITION, anyone?).

Or--hey--how about the fact that several European countries ***still*** have official state (read: political) religions?

So it's beyond hypocritical to gripe and moan about the evangelicals doing what the religion has done for 1700 years now.