The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
By: Andrew L. Seidel
4.45
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Do “In God We Trust,” the Declaration of Independence, and other historical “evidence” prove that A…
Want to Read $ 11.49"Evangelical Christianity invaded and polarized the political debate in the decades leading up to the Civil War, limiting the potential political solutions. It turned the democratic process, which relies on compromise, into a battle over sacrosanct issues of faith. Religion did exactly what the framers feared: it poisoned the political system."-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"In God we Trust", "one nation under God," "God bless America." These tidbits are not historical so much as they are rhetorical. Their tardiness precludes arguments that they somehow prove the founding ideology, but it is worth analyzing how the verbiage entered the American vernacular because doing so reveals something interesting about Christian nationalism. Christian nationalists take advantage of times of fear and use them to impose their god on everyone. When doing so, they often destroy earlier unifying messages with their new, divisive message."-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"Trump's dictatorial tendencies and mendacity, negative attributes for many voters, poised him perfectly to manipulate the evangelical mind. Like the biblical god evangelicals worship, Trump is a thin-skinned authoritarian with totalitarian tendencies. He craves love and punishes any disloyalty or slight. Evangelicals have been taught to worship and adore that type of being above all others. This strain of religion cultivates a veneration for extreme authority. Studies bear this out: religious fundamentalism and a tendency to submit to authoritarianism are highly correlated. Trump acted like the character evangelicals worship and benefited from their ingrained adulation. Evangelicals were simply seeing in Trump a character they'd been taught to revere. As if to prove the point, Ann Coulter called Trump her "Emperor God"."-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"For the average American during the 1950s, afraid of facing societal backlash, the question may simply have been: Which god or which religion? Today, the question is not which god or religion, but: Should I accept any god or religion? Increasingly, the answer is no. America is seeing a surge in atheism. A 2018 survey found that 21 percent of Americans born after 1999 are atheist or agnostic. Another 14 percent have no religious affiliation. These Americans do not trust in a god; they do not consider themselves or their nation to be under a god. Evangelical Christians, right-wing Catholics, orthodox Jews, and other hardline believers often find themselves in bed together, defending these idioms against secular Americans trying to uphold the Constitution. The advance of atheism and the rise of the "nones" have oddly unified religion, forcing believers to circle the wagons for a common defense of phrases that were imposed on a fearful nation. But such a legacy cannot last. For these phrases, the end is near."-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
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