1. The attacks on Biden's religion point to an insufficiently discussed part of the culture war -- the difference between liberal Christians and Christian nationalists.https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1299026946446315520 …
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3. Biden is a very mainstream American Christian in that for him Christianity is a mixture of church-going, good works, and social amelioration. For Christian nationalists, the faith is about preserving God's country, an idealized version of 1950s America really.
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4. Christian nationalism in a nutshell is Mike Pence replacing "Jesus" with "Old Glory" in a speech paraphrasing 2 Biblical verses. In effect: America (the old white dominated America, the "real" America) is God.pic.twitter.com/zUiZyTF19I
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5. More thoughts on the religious fissures we see playing out at the two conventions:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/religion-republican-convention/ …
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I think for evangelicals you could drop the adjective “liberal” and just go with “Catholic.”
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Though evangelicals have shown full-throated support for nominations of Roberts, Alito and Kavanaugh, all lifelong Catholics, and see Thomas as an ally as well. Catholics are Christian if they’re also Republican.
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See also the denial that Hillary Clinton was a lifelong Methodist who taught church camps.
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Most Catholics agree with him.
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Even as a bunch of reactionary converts drive the non-clerical discourse.
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Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Stacey Abrams, and even Kirsten Gillibrand talk about their faith all the time
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