Christian nationalism is all over the Trump agenda, separating Christianity from Evangelical political right wingers.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-can-you-maintain-your-christian.html

Evangelicalism, a more recent development, dating back to the revival movements of the mid to late 1800's mostly in the United States, has developed a system of measuring true Christianity by intellectual assent to a set of specific theological interpretations based on a literal rendering of the biblical text, rather than any consideration of its historical, cultural and social context. The emphasis is placed on gettting people to engage in a specific theological confession as a means of entering through a spiritual portal into conversion or salvation, and then learning the list of doctrinal acknowledgements that one must believe in order to be Christian. It's a very legalistic approach, almost completely backward from what Jesus preached and taught. There is no accountability beyond the local church, and it places a huge amount of authority in the hands of each church pastor.

These examples, along with the words of Jesus, are quite different, intentionally, than the examples and practices of the Israelites, recorded in the Old Testament, who believed themselves to be ritually unclean if they came into direct physical contact with a gentile. And it's one of the grave doctrinal errors made by Evangelicals, who claim belief in the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament Protestant Canon as "inerrant and infallible." The fact of the matter is that Jesus clearly replaced the much lower view of humanity found especially in the Old Testament historical record with a much higher one. And yet, much of what is found in Christian nationalist philosophy is a reference to Old Testament genocide and practice against the pagan populations who lived around Israel.

It is on this particular point, in fact, where American Evangelicalism parts company from orthodox Christian faith and practice. Christian nationalists have used "It was God's will" as justification for the annihilation of the native populations of North America, who they condemn because they were "godless heathens" as well as justification for the enslavement of African Americans, claiming that black skin was the mark God put on Cain, Adam's son who murdered his own brother, a story from myth, not history.

Evangelicals, as Christian nationalists, believe that whatever was necessary to allow white people to take over North American land, and consider it a gift from God for their Christian faithfulness, to be able to exploit the resources of a virgin planet. is justified because it is being done for God, whether that's displacement of the rightful owners of the land, or conquest and destruction of those who get in their way, including eliminating political enemies.

This is the way that they are leading America. So if you haven't caught on, and aren't awake to this yet, you need to get there quickly.

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1. First target of Evangelicals: Mainline Christianity

IOW, non-evangelical Christianity.

Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, etc.

[lees1975]

2. They're willing to bend their own theological and doctrinal rules to get right wing Catholics to work with them.

And they find a lot of help there. Historically, the Catholic church has been the single most Christian nationalist body of all, and what it is today is the result of thousands of years of having to concede, politically, and bend their knee to monarchs and dictators.

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3. The primary inspiration for all of this...

...is 16th century Geneva under John Calvin.

Catholicism's historical relationship with this stuff is a lot more complex. And it's surprisingly difficult to reconcile the different factions of Christian Nationalism. Just look at the controversy when a group of Christian Nationalists tried booking a Catholic adjacent figure like Calvin Robinson to speak at one of their conferences.