key practices include the veneration of the sacred symbols, again a white Jesus, and a merging of the cross and the flag (be that the U.S. or the Confederate flag), and, increasingly (representing freedom, independence, and power), firearms. Such worship has grown to an immense number of forms, from paintings to stained glass windows to guidebooks to hymns and worship songs to performative art to sermons and homilies to poetry, movies, television and radio programming, podcasts, websites, books, articles, social media sites, and much more. These have the commanding cumulative effect of
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