@BrianZahnd 2/ We would do well, perhaps, to recognize that even as US-based Christian nationalists identify as quintessentially American, their call to arms has nevertheless metastasized. Already, the world over, Christian ethno-nationalists are killing other Christians in our name.
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Copy of tweet here: The rot inside white American evangelicalism is so, so deep in its marrow and so, so dangerous to literally everyone and every institution. 1/ True. And let’s frame it within a larger context. Our challenge relates to a dominative image of the Nordic Christ throughout American Christianity and also, by extension, its danger to the world. Have you been noting trends in American Catholicism, of late, for example?
4/ @MelissaFloBix @IrkedIndeed Take theological avowals of sacred violence, for example. What on earth distinguishes the Crusader from the Jihadist in this regard? Answer: nothing. Both, the demonic parody, the anti-Christ, the lowest form of violence. thewordmadevisible.wordpress.com/about/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-islam/
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