The Green family conflates the Bible with American Protestant nationalism

Evidence

The most troubling aspect is their seeming inability to distinguish between the Bible and American Protestantism. Their three-minute promo is a fascinating demonstration of this problem. At least half of it is a reenactment of American history which has no bearing on the Bible—the signing of [the]Declaration of Independence, for example, or the Revolutionary War. The worry is that the museum portrays a story of the Bible that culminates in Protestantism and America. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 227

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the museum-as-cultural-talisman idea in ‘Grafting & Growth’ framing of objects as infrastructure, and to the broader civil-religion literature (Bellah) the reader has engaged. — connects to: Adherents explain prosperity as reward for national fidelity to the Bible — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 150; Protestant reinterpreted biblical concepts seeded modern nationalism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 330; Christian nationalism conflates whiteness with Christian American identity — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 14 (+5 more)
• SEED: Angle: the Museum of the Bible as a case study in how megadonors launder nationalist myth through sacred artifact — could pair with the ‘immodesty panics’ article’s theme of elites weaponizing cultural purity.

Broader Connections

• Christian nationalism conflates whiteness with Christian American identity #expands (0.85) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 14
• Christian nationalism fuses ethnic, racial, and political hierarchy with religious identity #expands (0.85) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 66
• Protestant reinterpreted biblical concepts seeded modern nationalism #qualifies (0.82) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 330
• Christian nationalism fuses free-market capitalism into American Christian identity #expands (0.78) — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 161
• Christian nationalism, not denomination, now predicts Americans’ politics #corroborates (0.75) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 454
• Christian nationalism is a global, not uniquely American, phenomenon #qualifies (0.72)
• Scholars conflate Christian nationalism with its statist variant. #responds-to (0.70) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 218