they found White evangelicals to be the religious group most embracing of Christian Nationalism with 64% categorized as adherents or sympathizers, one-third of White mainline Protestants also matched that profile.

Christian ethicist David Gushee warns that when reactionary “Christians believe themselves to be losing significant cultural influence, facing moral or political threats to their families or institutions, and being offered the opportunity to (re)gain cultural and political power, they can prove susceptible to authoritarian, antidemocratic, Christia

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.

consequences.23 Instead,

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’

Starting with the Puritans, he identified covenant as a major concept of this tradition:

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

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.”

By 2022, the picture changed significantly. A majority still identified as Christian (68%), but that meant one-third of the population did not claim that label. While the Jewish population held mostly steady (2%), the number claiming another faith grew (8%) and those claiming no religion skyrocketed (21%). If those trends continue, the U.S. could i