Isn't this what the Christian Nationalist/Trumpists want?

It's a nice piece and I agree with the sentiment, because it scares the crap out of me, too.

But at the same stuff, seeing stuff like this bothers me, because it seems to feed right into the, "if you don't like it, leave" mentality.

I feel like I should pack my bag, just in case, but damned if I want to. I was born here, raised and educated on the idea that this country was not just another Christian Nation with the idea that it was founded on "liberal ideas," including separation of Church and State, meaning more than just the Establishment Clause.

I'm not stupid. I realize that it was never that simple, but Trump and then 1/6 and the reaction to it made me realize, maybe I have less in common with more Americans than I thought I did.

I'm not giving up yet, but the definition of "civil discourse" is weighing a lot more heavily on me, along with more basic differences in terms of how one person treats another.

Did Jesus just over simplify, or did he mean to say, if you follow me and those who claim to support my message, you can ignore the older stuff ?

I'd like to think Christianity isn't a farce, but it sure seems like this crap is being carried out in it's name and there isn't much (enough) resistance.

Opinion: As a Jewish American, I don't see this country quite the same way after January 6

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/opinions/jews-racism-january-6-committee-wolfson/index.html

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CopperCicada · M

One of the most frightening things for me is an American Christian theocracy. I enjoy the spiritual life that I do precisely because I live in a secular pluralistic society with a separation of church and state.

I think you need to appreciate that the most distorted voices don’t speak for all of Christianity. Most Christians fear an American Christian theocracy as well. They condemn it.

And so they should, as they first question is what Christians would be represented? It won’t be the Roman Catholics or the Orthodox. Or the mainline churches, the Lutherans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians. It won’t be the liberal churches. Nor will it be the Mormons, the Seventh Day Adventists, the Jehovah Witnesses. It won’t be the Quakers. Won’t be the contemplatives.

That’s alot of people with a lot of property, capital, and political capital.

And we’re talking fellow Christians. We haven’t even gotten to the nonbelievers, who are the religious majority, or the religious minorities like Jews, Buddhists and so on.

I think it’s important to realize that the call for a Christian nationalistic theocracy is much older than Trump and 6 January. This isn’t a Trump thing.