There's a big difference to people who aspire to live as peaceful Christians, as opposed to fundamentalists who haven't the vaguest idea of Christianity but want their peculiar prejudices served.
That's certainly true. However, so-called Christianity has become almost meaningless in America. The Evangelicals, the 'Christo-fascists', the ostensible fundamentalists all serve to present Christianity as it exists today. And it's not just in America. The history is not particularly edifying. Personally, I think religion is an anachronism. The sooner humanity dispenses with it, the better.
The objection is to describing them as Christian, regardless of any other appendage. Nothing in their credo or behavior suggests any association with the teachings of Jesus the Christ whose robe they try to shelter under.
If their objective is what *they* understand to be a "Christian nation," then "Christian nationalist" is absolutely the correct term. They may not "be Christian" to you, but that's irrelevant; *all* self-identified Christian sects, from the largest Catholic communion on down, are "not Christian" to some other sects.
(This is for TC and the general readership, not directed at you.)
Christian NATIONALISTS!
A terror organization !
I fail to see the difference.
There's a big difference to people who aspire to live as peaceful Christians, as opposed to fundamentalists who haven't the vaguest idea of Christianity but want their peculiar prejudices served.
That's certainly true. However, so-called Christianity has become almost meaningless in America. The Evangelicals, the 'Christo-fascists', the ostensible fundamentalists all serve to present Christianity as it exists today. And it's not just in America. The history is not particularly edifying. Personally, I think religion is an anachronism. The sooner humanity dispenses with it, the better.
Joe Biden is a White Christian. So is Larry Hogan. So is Nancy Pelosi. That should help clarify the difference.
The term used was Christian Nationalist. That was what I responded to.
The objection is to describing them as Christian, regardless of any other appendage. Nothing in their credo or behavior suggests any association with the teachings of Jesus the Christ whose robe they try to shelter under.
Fair enough. I agree.
If their objective is what *they* understand to be a "Christian nation," then "Christian nationalist" is absolutely the correct term. They may not "be Christian" to you, but that's irrelevant; *all* self-identified Christian sects, from the largest Catholic communion on down, are "not Christian" to some other sects.
(This is for TC and the general readership, not directed at you.)