The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

by Andrew L. Seidel

Project Blitz encapsulates the problem Christian nationalism poses. First, it seeks to alter our history, values, and national identity. Then it codifies Christian privilege in the law, favoring Christians above others. Finally, it legally disfavors the nonreligious, non-Christians, and minorities such as the LGBTQ community, by, for instance, permitting discrimination against them in places of public accommodation or in employment.

they did not view religion as valuable because of its truth claims or as a source of morality, but simply as a means of producing good behavior without a reasoned moral analysis.

Because “politics…is the science of human happiness.”29 Political science sought to make people happy, not to repress, terrorize, and misuse them.

Biblical America is indeed a myth, a powerful one.