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Christian nationalists believe that the American nation was, is, and should remain a “Christian nation”—that America’s identity as a Christian nation is not merely a historical fact but a moral imperative, an ideological goal, and a policy ...more
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“16And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may surely eat; 17but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”
Anonymous, The Legacy Standard Bible - LSB

“there are three features of creeping totalitarianism in the name of religious conviction. The first can be seen when leaders assert the primacy of an ethnic or cultural identity over shared humanity. The second is when they stress the purification of those identities (inevitably leading to forms of ethnic cleansing). The third is when violence becomes legitimized for the protection of group identities.”
Tim Alberta, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

“Because what their congregants crave, more and more, is not so much objective religious instruction but subjective religious justification, a clergy-endorsed rationale for living their lives in a manner that might otherwise feel unbecoming for a Christian.”
Tim Alberta, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

“The pastor who finds himself offering religious justification today might find himself inventing it tomorrow. In the darkest chapters of Church history—the Crusades and Inquisition, the slave trade and sexual abuse scandals—the common denominator has been a willingness on the part of Christian authority figures to distort scripture for what they perceive to be some greater good.”
Tim Alberta, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

P.G. Wodehouse
“Sam Marlowe had a touch of the philosopher in him. He had the ability to adapt himself to circumstances. It had been no part of his plans to come whizzing down off the rail into this singularly soup-like water which tasted in equal parts of oil and dead rats; but, now that he was here he was prepared to make the best of the situation.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid

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