Wednesday, September 11, 2024

New Angle For Persecution: 'Christian Nationalism'

Media Puppets Exploiting 'Christian Nationalism' By Denigrating Social Conservatives Who Believe In Inserting Religion Into Everyday American Life


Samuel Perry, a sociologist at the University of Oklahoma, in a New Yorker cover article by Eliza Griswold, said, "The greatest ethnic dog whistle the right has ever come up with is 'Christian' because it means 'people like us,' it means white." The quote appeared in a paragraph that began with: "The election of Donald Trump intensified certain strains of Christian nationalism."

However, the Reverend Franklin Graham, son of the late Reverend Billy Graham, maintains; "'Christian nationalism' -- that's a coin that the media has come up with. It is to divide our country; it's to polarize people. Christian nationalism doesn't exist, it's just another name to throw at Christians. The left is very good at calling people names."

The Moral Majority led the Christian Right into the political arena. The organization was credited with an important part in Ronald Reagan's election. Reagan's combination of Evangelicalism and vision of American exceptionalism helped further cement the union between Evangelicals and the Republican Party. The Left and MSM recognized that Christians entering politics posed a threat, they required a 'scare' phrase so they coined one: ' Christian nationalism'

Christian nationalism (as a cultural condition defined by the Left) reached new heights when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. He became an overt champion of Christian nationalism. Trumpism is, the MSM maintains, the latest version of Christian Nationalism. Trump says he will 'take back the country' from the outsiders and invaders who have taken control (whom the MSM says are immigrants, secularists, Muslims, and Mexicans). The Left views Christian Nationalism as a cultural threat because "Christian nationalists believe, in general, that America is Christian, that the government should keep it that way, and that Trump was -- and is -- their best hope to accomplish that."

Trump's election forced the MSM into action. For example, NPR published this: "Christian nationalism has effectively spread so much disinformation that three in five white evangelicals say Biden was not legitimately elected." CNN presented this: "It's been called an 'imposter Christianity,' a heretical faith that 'sanctifies lies,' and 'the most serious threat' to democracy in America... White Christian nationalism is spreading a racist myth: that Whiteness is the default setting for evangelical Christianity." Newsweek magazine attacked the Republican party with this: "A new study released Wednesday offers unprecedented insight into the breadth of Christian nationalism in today's politics, helping bring clarity to a burgeoning -- but growing -- movement that has shaped the contemporary Republican Party and raised new questions about religion's role in today's politics."

"The term 'white Christian nationalism' has exploded in the social sciences and the MSM as a way of describing a view that has burst onto the public stage with Trumpism and the 'Make America Great Again' movement." The term is now used by the Left as a way to denigrate social conservatives who believe in inserting religion into everyday American life, and to paint a caricature of a dogmatic Republican voter focused on stripping rights from Americans. Liberal commentators equate Christian nationalism with white supremacy, argue that Christian nationalism means 'shooting migrants at the border, full immunity for police to kill at-will... terminating the Constitution, bombing Mexico,' and 'stripping women of all of their personal rights.'"

Here's a little of what the Left and the MSM have done with the term:

"The rising influence of Christian nationalism in some segments of American politics poses a major threat to the health of our democracy." That quote comes from a post by the Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI) based upon a PPRI/Brookings Institute survey of more than 6,000 Americans. Yep, that's the left-leaning Brookings Institute (Snopes calls it 'nonpartisan') that the New York Times calls 'a pillar of Washington's liberal establishment.'

The MSM, in this specific case the Washington Post, says in an article, "Christian nationalists also make up the base of the Republican Party." and that "They also are much more likely to hold authoritarian and racist views." The article also summarizes the PPRI survey.


A view of Christian Nationalism was offered by Politico' national investigative correspondent Heidi Przybyla who said, "The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists -- not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different -- is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress, they don't come from the Supreme Court. They come from God." I guess Przybyla completely dismisses our U.S. Declaration of Independence. Przybyla, after sticking her foot firmly in her mouth, apologized for her remarks.

My favorite has to be this Time magazine article "3 Threats Christian Nationalism Poses to the United States." It begins with, "It [Christian nationalism] believes the founders of the U.S. were conservative, white Christian men intent on founding a country where they and others like them could lead and flourish." It rushes downhill from there. Included are three talking points:

1. Christian nationalism is anti-democratic

Christian nationalism is about power. Power in the 'right' hands to ensure the U.S. fulfills its covenant with God. However, democracy demands we share power. Christian nationalism want to ensure the country does not turn its back on God.

2. Christian nationalism perpetuates racism

White Christian nationalism serves as the ideological mortar that allows the walls of racial division and inequality to be built, brick by brick.

3. Christian nationalism approves of political violence


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8 comments:

Anonymous said...


Where is the "Deep State" found in God's Word?
Nothing happens without the Lord allowing it...

Anonymous said...

The word Trinity is not in the Bible but the word shows God in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
We know that there are two types of people: the saved and the unsaved.
To continually be occupied with the political system is being conformed to this world, which is not transforming us by the renewing of our minds by His Word.
When one puts his hand to the plow we are looking forward. As born again believers professing faith in Christ whose Kingdom is not of this world, are we to look backward as Lot's wife did when led out of Sodom?

Scott said...

Wow - ok - you are clearly a better Christian than me - good for you!

Scott said...

Oh BTW - are we supposed to be watching the signs of the coming of Christ? Do some of those signs involve the coming of a global government? hmmmmmm

Anonymous said...

Scott, don't let this commenter discourage you. You're doing an amazing job on this blog!

Scott said...

Hi and thanks :) --- I don't normally publish this stuff (you can't believe the comments I screen lol - usually someone with a n obsessive agenda ) - some even threatening highly critical, etc. I almost stopped the comments but it's a way a lot of people communicate to me personally (not for posting) and I'd hate to lose that. But it does get tiring...

Anonymous said...

Scott, forgive me, as I have been overzealous in my comments on your blog. In no way am I a better Christian than you. Our Lord died and paid the penalty and raised Himself in victory. Our victory is in Christ Jesus Our Lord.

Scott said...

Amen to that; no problem, Ive done the same myself brother - and thanks :)