What is Christian Nationalism? (American Idols Ep. 1)
Straight White American Jesus
Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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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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