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Just say it: There is a higher-than-average concentration of American-made ideology that's mostly ignorant with some downplayed hate: Christian white supremacy nationalism clinging to false beliefs like "America is a Christian country" and "Families require a man and a woman where the man is in-charge". The Oklahoma City bombing to the immediate north in OK was 100% home-grown terrorism.

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Christian nationalism and traditional values are home grown terrorism?

Yes… they’re definitely the extremists here.

Family values are fine. I don't know why you think religious nationalism is fine unless you want your country to become like a Christian version of Afghanistan or similar. Not many people are fans of theocracies.

Exactly. It's when magical thinking drifts away from benign positive vibes and community that it becomes a dangerous belief system bent on harming others based on a self-righteous moral crusade.

Working institutions and Christian culture, correlation does imply causation?

I think you know very well the difference between Christian culture, which is fine, vs claiming or wanting to turn your country into a Christian theocracy. I find it rather interesting that the person above was talking about theocratic sentiments and you instead read it as simply Christian culture expression. Not even that you disagree that theocratic sentimemt exists, but that such is equivalent to sinply wanting Christian culture.

Evangelical Christianity just happens to be the most common patina of the flavor of absurdity. There's nothing wrong with all kinds of Christianity. Episcopalians, on average, tend to be downright cool beans. The adherents of Manifest Destiny and Monroe Doctrine probably had similar attitudes to people who weren't white and their kind of Christian. The challenge over time is ameliorating and confronting the intergenerational hate and trauma that echos into the future and healing all peoples so they can live together in peace.

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