It is possible, indeed probable, that Christian nationalists are ignorant about the imprecision of their religion’s ten paramount rules. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia admitted as much in a case involving a Ten Commandments monument on government land: “I doubt that most religious adherents are even aware that there are competing versions [of the Ten Commandments] with doctrinal consequences (I certainly was not).”60 And if the country’s leading originalist, a Catholic who believed in the literal existence of the devil, didn’t know which set influenced America’s founding, how would the
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