“She was assailed for selling “Proud Christian Nationalist” T-shirts” What does “Christian nationalism” means, when Christianity is religion and not nationality?
Well first, “Christian nationalism” is a compound noun- the two words together have a different meaning than taking the definition of both and smashing them together. It’s similar to how a “grand jury” refers to a specific jury called for a specific purpose separate from a regular jury, not an extra-large one.
In this case, a “Christian nationalist” is a person who does not believe in the separation of church and state. They (erroneously) believe that America was founded on explicit “Christian” principles and that no other religious or secular thought should be tolerated.
Given the uneducated foundation of those beliefs, it’s wholly unsurprising that Christian nationalists also support the eradication of all conflicting religions (because “Christians” founded America), the elevation of white people over other races (because white “Christians” founded America), the subjugation of women through removal of reproductive and other equal rights (because white “Christian” men founded America), and the elimination of any kind of social safety nets (because rich white “Christian” men founded America).
I think you have it backwards. Christian nationalism is something they arrived at after already setting the foundation of political opinions.
They start by wanting to eradicate all conflicting religions, elevate white people over other races, subjugate women, and eliminate social safety nets in order to reverse engineer the ideology and history they need to support what they already want.
The idea that facism rallies around an idea society has grown decadent, corrupt an alienating to the everyman and must return to a country’s mythic golden age when everything was better. It applies a “true inheritor” logic that describes a model citizen of the nation which is distinct from those who are it’s corrupting influence that must be subjugated or expunged by a country’s “rebirth” .
While Christian nationalism is distinct it still shakes hands with others served by this model.
“She was assailed for selling “Proud Christian Nationalist” T-shirts” What does “Christian nationalism” means, when Christianity is religion and not nationality?
Well first, “Christian nationalism” is a compound noun- the two words together have a different meaning than taking the definition of both and smashing them together. It’s similar to how a “grand jury” refers to a specific jury called for a specific purpose separate from a regular jury, not an extra-large one.
In this case, a “Christian nationalist” is a person who does not believe in the separation of church and state. They (erroneously) believe that America was founded on explicit “Christian” principles and that no other religious or secular thought should be tolerated.
Given the uneducated foundation of those beliefs, it’s wholly unsurprising that Christian nationalists also support the eradication of all conflicting religions (because “Christians” founded America), the elevation of white people over other races (because white “Christians” founded America), the subjugation of women through removal of reproductive and other equal rights (because white “Christian” men founded America), and the elimination of any kind of social safety nets (because rich white “Christian” men founded America).
I think you have it backwards. Christian nationalism is something they arrived at after already setting the foundation of political opinions.
They start by wanting to eradicate all conflicting religions, elevate white people over other races, subjugate women, and eliminate social safety nets in order to reverse engineer the ideology and history they need to support what they already want.
Palingenetic ultranationalism.
The idea that facism rallies around an idea society has grown decadent, corrupt an alienating to the everyman and must return to a country’s mythic golden age when everything was better. It applies a “true inheritor” logic that describes a model citizen of the nation which is distinct from those who are it’s corrupting influence that must be subjugated or expunged by a country’s “rebirth” .
While Christian nationalism is distinct it still shakes hands with others served by this model.
Willfully misinterpreting the text her “religion” is based on.
I think in this context it broadly means, “turning America into a theocratic hellscape.”
A caliphate of some sort