Defending a Christian nation has meant defending the racial order

Evidence

Christian nationalism is also intimately intertwined with a comfort with violence at the individual level. As we will see in an upcoming chapter, white Americans have appealed to defending this “Christian nation” to authorize unspeakable violence against Black Americans. For white Americans, upholding a Christian nation has meant defending the racial order. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 476

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Racism was integral but rendered invisible in the Christian Right’s origins — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 533; State-enforced Christian schooling of Native children lasted into the late 1970s — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 426; Patriotism requires truth-telling about a nation’s flaws — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 211 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• US government has used religion to justify racial subordination throughout history #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1068
• Race operates as a political theology underpinning sacrifice of groups #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1883
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363
• Christian nationalism is a flexible ideology used to support and oppose racial injustice alike #qualifies (0.75) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 165
• Claiming Whiteness required complicity in Black subordination for Jews and Catholics #exemplifies (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 390
• Claims about religious disloyalty became claims of racial inferiority #exemplifies (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 323
• Racializing religion serves the political purpose of excluding targeted minorities #expands (0.72)
• Racist theological ideas sanctioned and made American slavery acceptable to Christian churches #expands (0.70) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 20