assumed the people screaming at us probably believed they were doing the right thing, too. I know I did when I was part of the “All Lives Matter” crowd. What got to me was that, despite seeing us kneeling in prayer, they seemed to refuse to believe we were also Christians. We were just the enemy and had to be painted as such. This, too, was familiar to me from my days in Christian Nationalism. The ideology uses Christian language and Scripture to justify their position and demonize whoever is against them. That summer, I found it convicting to be on the receiving end of a tactic I had once
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