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Straight White American Jesus

What is Christian Nationalism? (American Idols Ep. 1)

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Brad is attending to the birth of his second child. So, enjoy the first episode of the new Axis Mundi series by Andrew Whitehead. In the opening episode, Andrew defines Christian nationalism, and uses his personal journey as a Christian to understand how it works on the ground in the religious lives of Americans, church spaces, and the public square. Transcript here. Order American Idolatry here: https://bookshop.org/lists/swaj-recommends-october-2023 Subscribe to Andrew's substack. Subscribe now to American Idols: https://www.axismundi.us/american-idols/ Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ To Donate: venmo - @straightwhitejc Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC SWAJ Book Recommendations - September 2023: https://bookshop.org/lists/swaj-recommends-september-2023/edit Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:14.8

I don't remember ever learning that the United States is a Christian nation.

0:36.4

It always just was. It wasn't something that was actively taught to me. Like most Americans,

0:42.3

it was something that we just knew deep down. And just like fish surrounded by water,

0:47.6

it's really hard to notice what is all around you. And here's the thing about all

0:52.3

encompassing worldviews that everyone around you seems to share. There's nobody there

0:56.8

to contradict what you all believe. So it isn't that I remember the exact moment when I was taught

1:02.3

that the United States is a Christian nation, but I do remember those moments of my journey

1:07.3

where the taken for granted nature of that belief began to show cracks.

1:11.7

I do remember when my youth group leader asked me whether Christians can in good conscience

1:16.0

serve in the military to go to other parts of the world and take the lives of those people

1:20.9

in defense of the interests of the United States, who we might otherwise be interested in

1:25.5

evangelizing as we send missionaries to that same country. I remember sitting in a classroom

1:31.2

as an undergraduate at Purdue University and having a history professor point out how the faith

1:36.3

of the founding fathers really looked nothing like conservative evangelical Protestantism as it's

1:42.1

practiced in the United States today. I remember listening to the first song of the debut album of one

1:48.2

of my favorite bands in high school, Five Iron Frenzy. And the song was about the slaughter of Native

1:53.4

American people and the United States achieving its manifest destiny and wondering how a Christian

1:59.6

nation could treat people in such gruesome way. People who we claim are created in the image of God.

2:06.4

And I remember wondering if Christianity so profoundly shaped our founding fathers,

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