Title : "A year ago, after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia summoned her fellow Republicans to become 'the party of Christian nationalism'..."
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"A year ago, after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia summoned her fellow Republicans to become 'the party of Christian nationalism'..."
"I began to read books about white Christian nationalists — and discovered that I am one of them."Writes Kenneth L. Woodward, in "How I became a white Christian Nationalist."
That's in The Washington Post. I wouldn't click on something with a title like that if it weren't in mainstream media. And Woodward has mainstream credentials. He was once a religion editor atof Newsweek. And he's got a mainstream-sounding book: "Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics From the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump."
So, let's see what's going on here.
Ah! He's not a "white Christian nationalist" at all! He just took some on line quiz that slotted him into that category because he gave "tempered support" for the proposition that the federal government should: 1. "Advocate Christian values," 2. "Enforce strict separation of church and state," 3. "Allow the display of religious symbols in public spaces," and 4. "Allow prayer in public schools."
The column rambles along:
My problem, though, is this: I don’t know any Christian nationalists. There was a time when I would have known numerous people who might have answered to the description “white Christian nationalist.” I’m sure my father, a White born-again Christian, was one. His generation lived through two world wars, an experience that made it very difficult to distinguish between nationalism and patriotism — or between religion and nationalism during the subsequent Cold War against atheistic communism....
Whoa! Is that fair to old man Woodward? Are you a "white Christian nationalist" just because you are white, Christian, and a nationalist? I'd say you have to believe the 3 characteristics fit together in some rational or spiritual way.
... Dwight D. Eisenhower... led America’s “crusade in Europe” as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, added “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance as president, and in 1955 was declared (by the Republican National Committee) “not only the political leader, but the spiritual leader of our times.” Now there was a real white Christian nationalist....
Woodward is lowering the standard for what it means to be a white Christian nationalist — enlarging the category. But why? Surely, not just for laughs.
In its 2022 survey, Pew shrewdly asks respondents what Christian nationalism means to them. Among the 45 percent who responded favorably to the idea of the United States as a Christian nation, the phrase is commonly interpreted to mean a country guided by “Christian” values such as honesty and tolerance and/or by a general belief in God. In short, almost any definition other than “a government-imposed theocracy.”
Conversely, theocracy, or at least a governmental privileging of the nominally Christian U.S. majority, is exactly what the 51 percent who judge “Christian nationalism” unfavorably typically say it means....
In other words, the term "Christian nationalism" is terribly confusing and divisive. That's Woodward's point. It was the quiz he took that enlarged the category. I'd recommend skepticism when you hear the term "white Christian nationalism." It's not a good term, because different groups are using it very differently.
Writes Kenneth L. Woodward, in "How I became a white Christian Nationalist."
That's in The Washington Post. I wouldn't click on something with a title like that if it weren't in mainstream media. And Woodward has mainstream credentials. He was once a religion editor atof Newsweek. And he's got a mainstream-sounding book: "Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics From the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump."
So, let's see what's going on here.
Ah! He's not a "white Christian nationalist" at all! He just took some on line quiz that slotted him into that category because he gave "tempered support" for the proposition that the federal government should: 1. "Advocate Christian values," 2. "Enforce strict separation of church and state," 3. "Allow the display of religious symbols in public spaces," and 4. "Allow prayer in public schools."
The column rambles along:
My problem, though, is this: I don’t know any Christian nationalists. There was a time when I would have known numerous people who might have answered to the description “white Christian nationalist.” I’m sure my father, a White born-again Christian, was one. His generation lived through two world wars, an experience that made it very difficult to distinguish between nationalism and patriotism — or between religion and nationalism during the subsequent Cold War against atheistic communism....
Whoa! Is that fair to old man Woodward? Are you a "white Christian nationalist" just because you are white, Christian, and a nationalist? I'd say you have to believe the 3 characteristics fit together in some rational or spiritual way.
... Dwight D. Eisenhower... led America’s “crusade in Europe” as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, added “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance as president, and in 1955 was declared (by the Republican National Committee) “not only the political leader, but the spiritual leader of our times.” Now there was a real white Christian nationalist....
Woodward is lowering the standard for what it means to be a white Christian nationalist — enlarging the category. But why? Surely, not just for laughs.
In its 2022 survey, Pew shrewdly asks respondents what Christian nationalism means to them. Among the 45 percent who responded favorably to the idea of the United States as a Christian nation, the phrase is commonly interpreted to mean a country guided by “Christian” values such as honesty and tolerance and/or by a general belief in God. In short, almost any definition other than “a government-imposed theocracy.”
Conversely, theocracy, or at least a governmental privileging of the nominally Christian U.S. majority, is exactly what the 51 percent who judge “Christian nationalism” unfavorably typically say it means....
In other words, the term "Christian nationalism" is terribly confusing and divisive. That's Woodward's point. It was the quiz he took that enlarged the category. I'd recommend skepticism when you hear the term "white Christian nationalism." It's not a good term, because different groups are using it very differently.
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