When you add “Christian” to the above definition, it reads “Christian Nationalism is identification with one’s own (Christian) nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, those who believe in Christian Nationalism, a bipartisan notion but far more heavily concentrated among the MAGA right, believe that the United States is a Christian nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, nothing could be further from the truth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, there’s this not so little law called the First Amendment of the Constitution, one that has an Establishment Clause which FORBIDS the establishment of a formal state religion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, those so-called Founding Fathers who drafted that First Amendment, you know, the James Madison, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams types that are revered each Fourth of July, were STRONGLY against a state religion in America, as the author of the Declaration of Independence and Third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, reminds below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third, when it comes to Christianity, “many are called, but few are chosen.” Meaning, there’s no way in Hell\u2014literally\u2014that\u00a0my<\/em>\u00a0Christian faith is the same as the \u201cChristian\u201d white men who lynched a 40-year old Black man in Nebraska:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or, the \u201cChristian\u201d white men who lynched this mother and son over a bridge in Oklahoma:Or, the \u201cChristian\u201d white men that killed hundreds of Blacks in Tulsa and destroyed multiple millions of dollars of Black property:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or, the \u201cChristian\u201d white men that killed hundreds of Blacks in East St. Louis, Illinois<\/p>\n\n\n\n For these and myriad other reasons, that\u2019s why I will NEVER line up with evil folks just because they carry a Bible and invoke the name of Jesus Christ; many of the world’s worst miseries, from the Crusades to Black Slavery, from Native American genocide to the Holocaust, were committed by so-called \u201cChristian\u201d nationalists who share NOTHING in common with my Black Missionary Baptist and AME roots\u2014even if we share citizenship in these United States!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So remember, if you pay careful attention to what these so called Christian Nationalists are doing in the early days of the second Trump administration more than listen to what they are saying, you will realize that they\u2019re committing unconstitutional acts and in the process, hurting people who are supposed to have the same rights under the law!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hobbservation Point is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chuck Hobbs is a freelance journalist who won the 2010 Florida Bar Media Award and has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perhaps the truest meme that I’ve seen on social media in a while reads: “Christian Nationalism is White Supremacy in Bible Drag…” That’ll preach! I admit that I scratch my head anytime I see Black Christians defending “Christian Nationalism” because I sense that they are confused as to the meaning. Well, the Oxford Dictionary defines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[466,65,467],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-christian-nationalism","tag-maga","tag-white-supremacy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-15.png\")
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