Posted on 04/06/2019 6:13:26 PM PDT by EdnaMode
As 2016’s election wound down, political scientists scrambled to understand which issue pushed President Donald Trump over the finish line.
And while research showed economic dissatisfaction and prejudice toward immigrants and minorities to be a strong indicator of support for Trump, one study found that the best way to determine vote choice in 2016 was by gauging adherence to Christian nationalist ideology.
“Christian nationalism,” or the belief that the country is or should be a Christian nation that can often include social and political campaigns supposedly aimed at maintaining or reverting back to that status, is not a new phenomenon, but the fervor among its adherents grows stronger amid the United States’ shift toward a more diverse and secular country. A March 22-24 Morning Consult poll finds that nearly half of the voting public views that ideology as an important or critical threat to the vital interests of the country within the next 10 years.
Rachel Laser, president of the nonpartisan Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which opposes religion dictating public policy, said Christian nationalism is a threat because it takes up “efforts to restrict the space for religious pluralism in the country and give special privileges to a narrow segment of white Christians in America.”
“There is a strong movement to preserve white Christian power in America right now, and a real feeling of fragility about the changing demographics of America,” she said.
Many experts say conservative leaders have — to varying degrees — embraced sentiments that run contrary to the Constitution’s call for separation of church and state, from the insistence on saying “Merry Christmas” to Trump’s campaign call for a ban on Muslims entering the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at morningconsult.com ...
That we are Not a democracy.
The country’s institutions push for open borders, “transgender rights”, late-term abortions, and the destruction of Christian businesses and symbols, yet it’s “Christian nationalists” that are the problem. Sure.
CHRISTIAN JUDEO PRINCIPLES
Christian-Judeo principles are the basis for successful society. Such as, Persons over the State, because God keeps getting in the way of the State. The State hates Christians.
Replacing with Atheism or Islamism brings democratic tyranny.
sex? i dont know.
Deviant sex? yeah probably.
though i heard the roaring 20s were a blast :)
And they are all Democrats. Brainwashed.
Non-partisan?! Barry Lynn?! LOL!!!!!
Please don’t pray for these leftists. Crush them.
Propaganda that islam is peaceful and Christians are not...works. Most people are sheep and believe whatever they are told.
JoMa
If you’re raised to live a secular life saturated with entertainments/distractions, you’ll take umbrage at the suggestion that life has fixed truths worth reckoning with. You probably won’t put it to words in that way, but that’s how you’ll react.
These people are so pathetic. Incapable of imagining people in other than imaginary groups of monolithic character. This is the entire foundation of the Democrat party, defining people by race, gender (male or female), etc. With no deviation allowed by individuals in these groups.
Theirs is a world of crystal clear polar opposites. Good and evil. Socialist or capitalist. Elites and masses. Nationalist and Internationalist. etc. With no middle ground or gray area permitted.
Such a pathetic excuse for a label is just stupid.
Makes you wonder how they define Christian at all.
“... you have to admit perversion in this country is at an all time high.”
I don’t call it Weimerica for nothing. Sickening.
Non-partisan?! Barry Lynn?! LOL!!!!!
And people are coerced into making all sorts of shaky compromises just to perpetuate public schooling. The everyday logistics of PS imposes all kinds of tensions on society, to say nothing of the curriculum, but somehow society keeps immolating itself so that school can march on: “It’s the law,” after all. Legal positivism in a nutshell.
Roughly half the population are in thrall to the propaganda coming from the Ministry of Propaganda.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. / But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; / That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.Thanks for the advice, but I will listen to the King instead. It will be on the leftists (who do not believe in God) to decide to open their minds or not.
— Matthew 5:43-45
Actually, they’re the ones that call evil good and good evil, as Isaiah 5:20 puts it.
A March 22-24 Morning Consult poll …. . . is worth precisely nothing no matter what date it was taken on. Unless fake news has worth, that is. (And a Washington DC firm that appeared during the Obama years specifically to feed the White House propaganda having to do with whether or not young uninsured Americans were going to sign up for Zer0care has zer0 worth.)
Exactly!!
They forget the roots of this country’s foundation. And even the states and colonies.
Christian Nationalists are a threat? To whom? Muslims? If we are a threat to Muslims, and we should be, big big deal, they are nothing...
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