Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent First Things essay, “Our Christian Nation,” may warm the hearts of Christian nationalists and confound historians and theologians who worry about continuing threats to the separation of church and state.
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent First Things essay, “Our Christian Nation,” may warm the hearts of Christian nationalists and confound historians and theologians who worry about continuing threats to the separation of church and state.
Used to listen to a local, conservative radio host. Great guy, really. Lady called in around Christmas talking about America always being a Christian nation.
“Well, not really. Our founding fathers were mostly Deists and the like…”
“That’s what I said, CHRISTIAN.”
“Well, no they weren’t. In fact, they were against proclaiming America a Christian…”
“Yes! You’re right! CHRISTIAN!”
The caller walked away thinking the host was agreeing with her!
Luke gave it up around 2007/08, something like that. Fuck me. If Luke McCoy wasn’t conservative enough… Anyway, Luke died in 2016. Thank god he didn’t see today’s breed of right-wingers.
There used to be sane voices on the right. Maybe I didn’t agree with them, but they weren’t bug fuck nuts.
And it should be noted that someone being a Diest then is very similar to an atheist now. The founding fathers were largely either the equivalent of atheists or of radical left wing Christianity