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“From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.” — George Orwell “The Prevention of Literature,” 1946”
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
“From a scholarly standpoint, as noted in a 1992 Newsweek article, “the idea of a single ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’ is a made-in-America myth.”9 One Jewish theologian stated the problem plainly: “Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.”10 “Judeo-Christian” is slippery because it is more a political invention than a scholarly description. It originated at the close of World War II when Christian exclusivity was too threatening.”
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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“The single most accurate predictor of whether a person voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election was not religion, wealth, education, or even political party; it was believing the United States is and should be a Christian nation.26 Researchers studied this connection and were able to control for other characteristics to ensure that Christian nationalism was not simply a proxy for other forms of intolerance or other variables related to vote choice.27 They concluded, “The more someone believed the United States is—and should be—a Christian nation, the more likely they were to vote for Trump.”
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
“Who will ever forget former attorney general Jeff Sessions’s biblical rationalization for Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents? Sessions turned to a passage from Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, in which Christianity’s first great proselytizer admonished every soul to be “subject to the governing authorities; because there is no authority except that which God has established.” (A federal judge thought otherwise, however, and ordered the government to reunite the families—thereby deciding that the Constitution, not a first-century evangelist, is a higher authority on the making of public policy.)”
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
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