Those not living in a bubble are well aware that Christian nationalism is infiltrating and corroding our institutions. These folks are big-time misogynists and homophobes, and more often than not they're racists. Christian nationalists are truly the antithesis of Christians.
Last week saw conservative leaders gather in London for The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, an annual conference. Funded by corporations, billionaires and evangelical Christians, the Alliance brings together thousands of ... well, control freaks who get their jollies by shoving their agenda, heavily influenced by Christian nationalism, down the throats of others. This year there was a full court press for “civilizational renewal," during which they ramped up their heavy-handed and odious goals.
Oh my! As they say, there is a lot to unpack here.
Your tome is more partisan smear than analysis, that’s for sure. It blasts "Christian nationalism" as misogynistic, homophobic, racist infiltration and the "antithesis of Christianity”. The problem, besides collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions, is that it allows you to negate the most basic of precepts of Christianity. The ones this country was formed around when it comes to God’s providence and morality (sin). You think that by equating it with a political movement, Christian nationalism, you get to disparage Christianity altogether.
You admittedly dropped the ball on faith personally at home, while mocking your daughter's ignorance ("William and Mary? Jesus' parents?"). By the way, William & Mary was founded by an Anglican clergyman who named it after the English monarch in 1693.
Complaining about secular outcomes while attacking school efforts to teach cultural heritage is peak hypocrisy. If Bible literacy might have helped dispel your daughter’s ignorance, why oppose it elsewhere?
You seem to think that Texas adding Bible passages as literature (alongside Shakespeare et al.) is "indoctrination," violating church-state separation. Yet, overtly aggressive progressive curricula on gender ideology, race essentialism, and identity politics in schools get a free pass as mere "education.", with no regard for anyone's possible moral objections. Age-appropriate book challenges are decried as bans, but required readings or opt-outs favoring one worldview aren't. And lately we are admonished that even the slightest objections to Islam’s tenets are now Islamophobic. This isn't neutrality; it's selective outrage against our Country’s majority heritage, Christianity, for over 300 years.
You concede the Bible's cultural importance but pivot to America's diversity, demanding a "sampling of faiths." Using pluralism to sideline the predominant tradition that shaped the nation—while treating other faiths as enriching—is inconsistent. Majority cultural literacy isn't erasure. It’s an honest acknowledgement of our foundational, moral, and spiritual underpinnings that the Forefathers clearly believed and understood.
Blanket bigotry labels ignore Christianity's historical roles in abolition, rights, and governance, and reduce policy disagreements (e.g., on sports, youth transitions, marriage) to hatred. "Infiltrating institutions" rhetoric ignores progressive sectarian dominance in academia, media, and bureaucracy, whose actual adherents are a minority.
Labeling a conservative conference on family, responsibility, and renewal as "control freaks" pushing authoritarian pretexts is truly rich. Progressive cultural shifts have been far more top-down and pop-culture-driven, with dire consequences for those who question them.
Historically, civilizational moral concerns/conflicts aren’t new or unique to Christians. You might familiarize yourself with the New Testament and the history of the early church.
Suggesting Ten Commandments displays need footnotes due to one particular president's failings is childish whataboutism, revealing more about your partisan animus over principle.
Your op/ed weaponizes "separation of church and state" as a one-way ratchet against Christianity, while excusing your own side's impositions, and scolds cultural preservation after your own failing at home. Disagreements on curriculum are fair, but this selective demonization and inconsistency are not. It exposes more about yourself than any real theocratic threat.
Let’s face it: today’s culture warriors have made the words “hate” and “judgment” synonymous, as a way of eliminating any type of judgment, including God’s altogether.
How convenient; the idea of sin is so arcane, and adherence to God’s commands too burdensome anyway.
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Oh my! As they say, there is a lot to unpack here.
Your tome is more partisan smear than analysis, that’s for sure. It blasts "Christian nationalism" as misogynistic, homophobic, racist infiltration and the "antithesis of Christianity”. The problem, besides collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions, is that it allows you to negate the most basic of precepts of Christianity. The ones this country was formed around when it comes to God’s providence and morality (sin). You think that by equating it with a political movement, Christian nationalism, you get to disparage Christianity altogether.
You admittedly dropped the ball on faith personally at home, while mocking your daughter's ignorance ("William and Mary? Jesus' parents?"). By the way, William & Mary was founded by an Anglican clergyman who named it after the English monarch in 1693.
Complaining about secular outcomes while attacking school efforts to teach cultural heritage is peak hypocrisy. If Bible literacy might have helped dispel your daughter’s ignorance, why oppose it elsewhere?
You seem to think that Texas adding Bible passages as literature (alongside Shakespeare et al.) is "indoctrination," violating church-state separation. Yet, overtly aggressive progressive curricula on gender ideology, race essentialism, and identity politics in schools get a free pass as mere "education.", with no regard for anyone's possible moral objections. Age-appropriate book challenges are decried as bans, but required readings or opt-outs favoring one worldview aren't. And lately we are admonished that even the slightest objections to Islam’s tenets are now Islamophobic. This isn't neutrality; it's selective outrage against our Country’s majority heritage, Christianity, for over 300 years.
You concede the Bible's cultural importance but pivot to America's diversity, demanding a "sampling of faiths." Using pluralism to sideline the predominant tradition that shaped the nation—while treating other faiths as enriching—is inconsistent. Majority cultural literacy isn't erasure. It’s an honest acknowledgement of our foundational, moral, and spiritual underpinnings that the Forefathers clearly believed and understood.
Blanket bigotry labels ignore Christianity's historical roles in abolition, rights, and governance, and reduce policy disagreements (e.g., on sports, youth transitions, marriage) to hatred. "Infiltrating institutions" rhetoric ignores progressive sectarian dominance in academia, media, and bureaucracy, whose actual adherents are a minority.
Labeling a conservative conference on family, responsibility, and renewal as "control freaks" pushing authoritarian pretexts is truly rich. Progressive cultural shifts have been far more top-down and pop-culture-driven, with dire consequences for those who question them.
Historically, civilizational moral concerns/conflicts aren’t new or unique to Christians. You might familiarize yourself with the New Testament and the history of the early church.
Suggesting Ten Commandments displays need footnotes due to one particular president's failings is childish whataboutism, revealing more about your partisan animus over principle.
Your op/ed weaponizes "separation of church and state" as a one-way ratchet against Christianity, while excusing your own side's impositions, and scolds cultural preservation after your own failing at home. Disagreements on curriculum are fair, but this selective demonization and inconsistency are not. It exposes more about yourself than any real theocratic threat.
Let’s face it: today’s culture warriors have made the words “hate” and “judgment” synonymous, as a way of eliminating any type of judgment, including God’s altogether.
How convenient; the idea of sin is so arcane, and adherence to God’s commands too burdensome anyway.
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