The Rise of U.S. Christian Nationalism
There's been a disturbing rise of US Christian nationalism over the past few decades. They claim we were founded for the sake of so-called “Judeo-Christian values." Like any kind of nationalism in already established nation-states, these chauvinists deny history to exclude people from that identity and curtail their rights. It’s the most extreme of the religious right, which arose in the 1970s and xenophobic McCarthyism before that. They deny religious freedom and exclude anyone who does not fit their white Anglo-Saxon protestant (or WASP) identity politics, despite the fact that the founders were overwhelmingly secular, regardless of their actual religious beliefs (which many were deists). They included religious freedom in our Bill of Rights and ratified a treaty stating, “The Government of the USA is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
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If you'd like to dig further, start with these book:
Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American (New York: Sterling, 2019). https://amzn.to/3q7EUBB
Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020), audiobook. https://amzn.to/3iSoX0z
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