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This White Christian identity, easily animated by appeals to resentment and racism, is the moral glue holding this defensive and defiant group together. Its apocalyptic worldview—where the all-important end of preserving a White Christian America justifies a by-any-means-necessary politics—legitimates support for Trump.

Robert P. Jones at Religion Dispatches. CNN's Disastrous 'Town Hall' With Trump Put the Country At Risk

I am no expert on Robert P. Jones, but when a White Southerner speaks as eloquently as he does in opposition to white supremacy, I wonder what their story is.

I don't find it easy in my own life to filter out region from what I think and know. Saying I'm a Christian seems to annoy quite a few people who know me. "You are a Christian so you must believe. . . (some generally odious dogma or doctrine they pull out of a hat)." I oppose Christian nationalism and part of my opposition is steeped in in the history of Christianity in this country's history. There is so much emphasis on personal religious beliefs and much less attention to the religious threads woven into our shared histories.

Jones is the CEO of PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute). He is a graduate of Mississippi College is the second-oldest Baptist-affiliated college or university in the USA. He holds a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in religion from Emory University. He is also the author of a a book entitled, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.

It's worth recognizing that there are Christian allies in opposition to Christian Nationalism. I am grateful for Robert P. Jones and his good work.

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For what it’s worth, in an unrelated lawsuit last summer, Becket issued a triumphal press release opining that “Courts can’t decide what it means to be Catholic—only the Church can do that. By keeping the judiciary out of religious identity, the Indiana Supreme Court just protected all religious institutions to be free from government interference in deciding their core religious values.” It actually beggars belief that Indiana Jews and Muslims are not to be offered the same solicitude to decide what it means to be a Muslim or a Jew. We thus find ourselves, just months after Dobbs—one of the most deeply theologically inflected decisions in recent history—listening to ostensibly faith-based litigation shops rehearsing arguments about the religious sincerity of adherents of different, minority faiths, and the history of that sincerity. This shift happened very quickly and almost imperceptibly, but it is happening nonetheless. It started with Hoosier Jews. It will not end there

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate. Which Religion Counts in America

A brief in a case out of Indiana shows exactly how fundamentalist Christian beliefs trump everything else in the courts these days.

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Christian nationalism is as mainstream as apple pie among evangelicals and Republicans. And Christian nationalists are by and large churchgoing believers whose authoritarian Christianity is a very real and powerful expression of the faith that drives their ascendant anti-pluralist, anti-democratic politics. These are the same religion and politics I was socialized into back in the 1980s, only now with far more power. Pretending this is not the case and insisting on the equation of “Christian” with “good” only reinforces the Christian privilege that pervades American society and gives Christian nationalists cover. The only way to fight Christian nationalism effectively is to recognize it as an authentically Christian phenomenon.

Chrissy Stroop in Religion Dispatches. Christian Nationalism Is Authentically Christian--And According to a New Poll Most White

Reading about lynching and the KKK the "authentically Christian" part really gets to me and has got me a bit stuck about links to share about White history during this Black History Month.

#racism #white christian nationalism #authoritarianism #christo-facism

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Martin shows how prominent figures such as Billy Graham, Fulton Sheen, and countless other ministers from across the country partnered with the FBI and laundered bureau intel in their sermons while the faithful crowned Hoover the adjudicator of true evangelical faith and allegiance. These partnerships not only solidified the political norms of modern white evangelicalism, they also contributed to the political rise of white Christian nationalism, establishing religion and race as the bedrock of the modern national security state, and setting the terms for today’s domestic terrorism debates.

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism by Lerone Martin, Princeton Universtiy Press.

Lerone A. Martin in The Revealer. Suing the FBI and Uncovering a History of White Christian Nationalism

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Assuming secular values and pluralism will win out in the end does nothing to prevent the ideological violence of Christian nationalism from spreading. Just as Wahhabism spread as a grievance-based movement against ostensibly secular Pan-Arab dictatorships in the 1960s before morphing into a powerful global threat, white Christian nationalism is a tinderbox. We have to have the tools to snuff the fire before it lights.

Murali Balaji at Rewire.News. Behind New Zealand Terror Attack is a Problem Bigger Than Islamophobia

Even as advocates point to growing Islamophobia as the cause of the attack, the larger issue seems to be white Christian nationalism.

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