Thursday, July 27, 2023

Opinion | Black History Is a Casualty in Ron DeSantis’s Christian Nationalist Quest - The New York Times

In the same way that Donald Trump made his bones as America's white nationalist in chief, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is trying to make his as the country's chief Christian nationalist, a subset of white supremacy that holds that God has ordained America as a Christian nation, and that its ideals must be protected from the encroachment of pluralism — racial, religious or otherwise… 

But Christian nationalism isn't merely "patriotic Christians" and it's not Christianity, but rather, as the University of Oklahoma sociologist Samuel Perry put it, can be understood as "an impostor Christianity that uses evangelical language to cloak ethnocentric and nationalist loyalties."…

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