Azath Vitr (D, on 24 August 2023 - 12:47 PM, said:
With the majority of Republicans voicing support for Christian nationalism—believing that the country should be a strictly Christian nation—candidates in 2024 and beyond are going to need to court these voters somehow.
Does it blow anyone else's mind that these people claim to be patriots for what The United States stands for, and yet they universally seem to believe that the USA should be a Christian theocracy...going against one of the VERY MOTIVES that the English settlers who left England did so, as a result of lack of religious freedom in that country?
Like the religious motives for settling in the colonies was:
The Protestant Reformation gave rise to dissenting sects who aggressively sought to worship according to their own ideas instead of conforming to the religious uniformity required by the Anglican Church. Non-conforming religious sects were persecuted as being treasonous to the king. These people sought to escape to America where vacant land and great distance from the mother country offered them a place to settle and follow their own consciences in religious matters.
So yeah, not patriots at all really, and very much the "follow OUR way, or take the highway" of the place they moved away from.
It would be truly funny if it weren't so sad.
Also, I'd love to know how much of this is demand for a Christian theocratic USA is simply the petulant the death throes of Christianity as an organized religion with 91% of the total US population in 1976, down to 73.7% by 2016 and then further to 64% in 2022. Dropping to just above half its previous highest number in only 47 years is...not insubstantial of a drop. So are the super devout angry and lashing out now? Who knows. It certainly looks that way though.
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