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White Christian Nationalism: Threat or mirage?
American Thinker ^ | 04/18/2024 | John Horvat II

Posted on 04/18/2024 8:38:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

In the eyes of liberals, there is only one thing worse than Christian nationalism. It is White Christian nationalism. The addition of the adjective “White” supercharges the expression with vitriol and power, turning its followers (especially if they are male) into something everyone should love to hate.

Judging from the liberal media uproar, the dangers of White Christian Nationalism (WCN) are immense. It is systemic, found everywhere inside the culture and governing structures of American society. Should something like this triumph, it will be the end of American democracy.

People would think that this White Christian Nationalism, being such a broad and imminent threat, must have many ways of expressing itself and exerting its enormous influence over the population. It must have an articulate doctrine and a means of diffusing itself into every sector of society. It must have books, publications, think-tanks and political organizations building its cause -- a power base proportional to this overwhelming influence.

However, no vast network of influence exists. Apart from racist fringe groups with no projection, there is nothing in real America that even remotely matches the description or even uses the WCN name. No local WCN chapters exist. Most people cannot name a White Christian nationalist or say they know one personally. They also cannot recall growing up under this influence or hearing of its existence.

Indeed, to use the language of the liberals waxing hysterical over WCN, this danger is a social construct that exists much more in their superheated imaginations than in the public square. The expression serves to malign anyone who questions the woke agenda or takes their religion seriously. It is not meant to describe reality.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: christian; nationalism; threat
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1 posted on 04/18/2024 8:38:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The May 2024 issue of First Things has a very revealing feature article on the myth of this ghostly giant movement. Author Kenneth Westward makes the point that most scholars, including those on the Left, are hard-pressed to define a White Christian nationalist, much less locate one.

However, these scholars are unconcerned. Those studying the issue reduce WCN to a narrative more than a movement. It is a kind of angst felt by left-behind White workers who want to assert their identity. It is best kept unmeasured in the realm of feelings and anger, not principles. There is no need to find organized programs or lobby groups with political connections to give it physical existence.

2 posted on 04/18/2024 8:39:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Completely fabricated. A conclusion in search of data to support it


3 posted on 04/18/2024 8:42:48 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: SeekAndFind

WCN is the Wizard of Oz construct “lions, and tigers, and bears, OH MY”! Liberals want Whites to be racist so bad! The Mocking Bird Media and Liberals. They GOT nothing to demonize with!


4 posted on 04/18/2024 8:45:11 AM PDT by agincourt1415 (Trump!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll take Gaslighting for $1000 Alex


5 posted on 04/18/2024 8:45:24 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Unfortunately it’s probably just something liberals made up to scare people into voting for democrats


6 posted on 04/18/2024 8:45:36 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: SeekAndFind

White - skin color, can’t do anything about that

Christian - religion, protected under the First Amendment

Nationalism - definition:
identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

Basically a patriot.

So... if i’m a White Christian Nationalist this is supposed to be bad??

sorry. i’m pro America because that’s my country. While i may detest 40% of the people in it (progressives), i’m still proud to be an American.

Anyone trying to vilify someone like me would obviously be trying to undermine support for the nation.


7 posted on 04/18/2024 8:49:44 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why is this not intersectionality? That’s what I’m claiming.


8 posted on 04/18/2024 8:52:54 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: momincombatboots

You would add *woman* to WCN, bonus intersectionality points!


9 posted on 04/18/2024 9:01:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

The atheist, leftist, totalitarians are who we need to put in a place where the rest of us can be safe from them.


10 posted on 04/18/2024 9:01:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: sten

“Nationalism - definition:
identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.”
Adding “Nationalism” to a phrase is a leftist technique to smear and insult a group. Probably it is used by the left because the “National Socialist Workers Party” was the full name of the Nazi Party. BLM is a Black Nationalist group, Antifa is a leftist nationalist group. There is nothing about Christianity which is Nationalist. All Christian countries accept other religions. Almost all Islamic countries discriminate against Christians. Islam does not recognize that a nation can create laws of its own, the law in Islamic countries is Sharia, and comes from the Koran, and is enforced by religious authorities. The idea that there is a “Christian Nationalism” is deflection, it is projecting the greatest injustice of the Muslim world (the lack of religious tolerance) onto the blameless Christian world which happily welcomes bigoted Muslims who hate them. Anyone using the term Christian Nationalism is simply and anti Christian shill glossing over the greatest strength of American Christianity, enshrined in the Constitution, which is religious freedom.


11 posted on 04/18/2024 9:02:53 AM PDT by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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To: SeekAndFind

“Christian nationalism” is another one of those terms coined and used only by the Left—as is “Saturday night special,” a term meaning “pistol” that was coined and is used by gun control advocates but not by gun owners.


12 posted on 04/18/2024 9:06:09 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

“Christian Nationalist” is what we are called. No one is running around calling themselves this. This is an implicit attack on Christianity as if political ideas cannot be judged thru Christian morality.


13 posted on 04/18/2024 9:10:46 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Given enough time, demographic shifts, and a moving of the Overton Window, the left will go for a Night of the Broken Glass type event against christians and especially white ones in this country. They are pushing us to a post-Rhodesia Zimbabwe type situation.

I am 1,000% certain about this.


14 posted on 04/18/2024 9:11:48 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: SeekAndFind
Whatever "white Christian nationalism" is, it is probably WEAKER now that at any time in our history. Christian religious belief is at its lowest level in our history, patriotism is probably at its lowest level ever, and nationalism is being replaced by globalism.

The dire warnings against WCN seem intended to bully the remaining Christian patriots into silence, provoke them to violence, or pave the way for their arrest.
15 posted on 04/18/2024 9:35:46 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: escapefromboston

That’s it, right there.


16 posted on 04/18/2024 9:42:00 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

In fact, make all the lefties and commies (but I’m just repeating myself) move to any Marxist banana 🍌 republic of their choice to permanently stay and never return to America 🇺🇸


17 posted on 04/18/2024 9:44:36 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: sten

That’s something a white Christian Nationalist would say! Lol.


18 posted on 04/18/2024 9:49:04 AM PDT by WarANDPiece
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To: escapefromboston
It sounds scary. It's not. I like this quote I found in a Time magazine: The contemporary currency of this worldview is reflected in the telling results of a 2023 Christian Nationalism Survey, conducted by PRRI in partnership with the Brookings Institution: Do you agree or disagree that “God intended America to be a new promised land where European Christians could create a society that could be an example to the rest of the world.” The survey found that while only 3 in 10 Americans agreed with this statement, majorities of Republicans (52%) and white evangelical Protestants (56%) affirmed it.
19 posted on 04/18/2024 9:52:19 AM PDT by WarANDPiece
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To: sten

DITTO!


20 posted on 04/18/2024 10:41:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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