Sublime

Feminism overturns the biblical ideal of the woman, sexual libertinism severs sex from marriage and encourages men and women to act sexually without respect to morality, transgenderism revolts against the very concept of divine design in terms of identity and appearance, and homosexuality revolts against the sacred order in terms of sexual identity

These Christian foot soldiers of the revolution were not at all libertarians—they wanted morality brought into every corner of public life—but the narrative of Free America gave them a common enemy. Reagan attached their agenda to the program of the business class, but the Christians always brought up the rear and never achieved their goals, becaus

Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. cited America’s so-called Christian heritage as a form of rebuke, to challenge an unjust social order. White evangelicals in the South, by contrast, have more often cited the Christian nation narrative not to contest the unjust social order but to preserve it. The difference is not the Christian nation

Initially, this southern culture of mastery and honor seemed to conflict with the egalitarian impulses of evangelical Christianity.

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