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Is Christian Nationalism a Threat?

Mike Weisser
4 min readMar 7, 2024

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So now that the idea of Trump as being a Fascist seems to have run out of gas, the Fake News has come up with a new Trumpian threat to America known as ‘Christian nationalism’ which is being mentioned in the same tremulous tones as Trump’s alleged adherence to Fascism was previously discussed.

In fact, this so-called movement to promote the idea of the United States as being a ‘Christian nation’ with government adherence to various, right-wing propositions and beliefs, particularly any and all condemnation of the various manifestations of woke-ism, is really nothing more than another attempt to make a buck through the fusing of religious and political organizations, both of which depend on financial support from people who agree with their world views.

Billy Graham got the whole thing going back in the 1960’s when Richard Nixon, born and raised as a Quaker, by the way, brought Graham into the White House to help build support for the Viet Nam War. Then we had the various televangelists like Pat Robertson and Jim Bakker with Jerry Falwell pushing his name and face into the mainstream of GOP politics until he dropped dead in 2007.

You may recall that Trump made a point of showing up at Falwell’s Liberty University during the 2016 campaign and demonstrated the depths of his religious beliefs by referring to a New Testament passage as…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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