The Christian-nation quest has always served a racial hierarchy
Evidence
In the face of this overwhelming evidence, I find it hard to reconcile my Christian belief that all humans equally bear the image of the living God with a desire for the United States to privilege Christianity, when Christian nationalism is so strongly associated with racially insensitive—and in some cases repugnant—beliefs. We cannot have both. … From the beginning, the mission to make a “Christian nation” has served to create and maintain a racial hierarchy. The Christian Right was just singing the same old song. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 546
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: State-enforced Christian schooling of Native children lasted into the late 1970s — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 426; American religious freedom has always been circumscribed by race; The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Defending a Christian nation has meant defending the racial order
#corroborates(0.92) — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 476 - American religious freedom has always been circumscribed by race
#corroborates(0.82) - American hierarchy is a racial-religious system with religion as dispositive
#corroborates(0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 127 - The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception
#expands(0.75) - The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration
#corroborates(0.73) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363 - European racial hierarchy is ancient, predating modern slavery
#complicates(0.73) - The Christian civilizing mission presupposed racial progressivism in principle
#qualifies(0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 49 - Theological equality of souls was reconciled with racial developmental hierarchy.
#exemplifies(0.71) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1508 - Religion served as a status axis in the racial hierarchy among enslaved Africans
#exemplifies(0.70) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 193