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

Consider the shift in religious demographics since the publication of Bellah’s piece on civil religion in 1967. According to Gallup, 92% of Americans identified as Christian in 1967.15 That left 3% as Jewish, 3% as another faith, and only 2% claiming no faith. In terms of demographics, the U.S. was basically a nation of Christians. And it was

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.”

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

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%.

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,

And it means, as the Flag Code instructs, “in the position of honor at the clergyman’s or speaker’s right as he faces the audience” with “any other flag so displayed … placed on the left of the clergyman or speaker or to the right of the audience.”

“Christian Nationalism is not a politically enthusiastic version of Christianity, nor is it a religiously informed patriotism. Christian Nationalism is a prosperity gospel for nation-states, a liberation theology for White people.”

The “Christians Against Christian Nationalism” movement spearheaded by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty unpacks the idea as this: “Christian Nationalism seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America’s constitutional democracy. Christian Nationalism demands Christianity be