Brad links last’s week’s episode on Christianity as the original American purity culture to the argument made in a new book by Stephen Wolfe – “The Case for Christian Nationalism.” In the book and in his public comments, Wolfe makes an argument like this:
- God created humans on earth
- Those humans were always going to gather in separate communities
- Christianity therefore assumes nations
- Christians should institutionalize Christianity in order to rightly order the public sphere
- You should love those who are like you more than others
- Nations should defend their people’s identity and freedom from others
In Brad’s mind, this is a stone’s throw from ethno-nationalism – and it creates an impulse to see those who are not White, Christian, straight, patriarchal, and native-born as less than – as deserving less love – and as potentially the threats against which real Americans would defend themselves in the name of God and country. Despite the high theological language, it’s White ethno-nationalism – at a time when Kanye West and Donald Tr*mp are making anti-Semitic remarks.
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