The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

by Andrew L. Seidel

Without their common well of myths, the Christian nationalist identity will wither and fade.

Highly optimistic. The Christian Right does not deal heavily in rational thought.

President John F. Kennedy explained to Yale’s graduating class of 1962 that “the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears…. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

There is no freedom of religion without a government that is free from religion.

if rights are given by a god, they can be taken away by the men claiming to speak for that god.

“Cursed be anyone who lies with his father’s wife, because he has violated his father’s rights.”

there goes an entire pornhub category

Art is freedom: freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom to explore what it means to be human.

Trump and his Christian nationalist brethren want a return to a Christian nation; they want to “make America great again.” But religion did not make the United States, let alone make it great.

the myth of former glory creates an entitlement to future glory