Baptizing America

Mainline and progressive Christians correctly castigate evangelical or conservative leaders who render to Caesar what belongs to Jesus. Yet, they miss both the subtle and obvious ways, historically and in the present, they also participate in being priests of American culture rather than proclaimers of the gospel.

Republicanism is the religion, and they’ve been fighting for that for at least 25 years—just to turn it into a religion. So that it doesn’t matter what they do—and let’s be honest, Trump is probably one of the worst humans in the whole universe—my dad will never be able to do anything other than be on this “religion team” because he’s told that it’

Rev. Hermann Morse, a Presbyterian minister who was elected as one of the first NCC vice presidents and who would shortly thereafter serve as moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), spoke about the mission “to make this a Christian nation.”23 He argued the NCC could play a critical role in this development: “We dare to believe that a Christi

one way of understanding Christian Nationalism is that the freedom democracy affords has been used to create a society that its purveyors believe neglects God’s blessing and desires. Thus, the authoritarian turn is justified to correct these abuses democracy allows and return the United States to their understanding of the righteous path.

PRRI in 2023 found that 31% of White evangelicals agreed that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” That made evangelicals the religious group most likely to agree with needing political violence. But White mainline Protestants were second at 25%.

The design of the Christian flag occurred in 1897. As the story goes, when a guest speaker failed to show up for Sunday School at the Coney Island Congregational Church (also known as Brighton Chapel) in Brooklyn, New York, a local leader gave an impromptu speech. Noticing an American flag draped over the corner of the pulpit, Charles Overton used

we are heading closer to the world Bellah predicted would arise “if the whole God symbolism requires reformulation.”24 He argued, “There will be obvious consequences for the civil religion, consequences perhaps of liberal alienation and of fundamentalist ossification.”

Thank you, heavenly Father, for this opportunity to stand up for God-given unalienable rights. Thank you, heavenly Father, for being the inspiration needed to these police officers to allow us into the building, to allow us to exercise our rights, to allow us to send a message to all the tyrants, the communists, and the globalists that this is our

consequences.23 Instead,