Christian Nationalism 5: Ten Years Of Terror And Extremism Later

11 years is a long time and a lot has changed. Not everything I wrote about ended up being accurate. Some of it ended up being worse.

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This is part 5 of the increasingly misnamed Christian Nationalism Quartet. When I wrote the original series 11 years ago, the topic was one that set off all kinds of alarms in my head. Having more than a passing familiarity with the horrors fundamentalists enact when handed total power, the Dominionist movement struck me as a serious threat, not just to me and my, at the time, very new family but to everyone in the country. And that was before I understood how bloodthirsty and intrinsically racist the movement is.

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Banter Members can read the whole series on Christian Nationalism here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

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In this follow-up, let’s take a look at what I got right, what I got wrong, and how much worse it is now. As you will see not everything I wrote about ended up being accurate. Some of it ended up being worse. Much, much worse.

Too close for comfort

One of the reasons The Banter republished this series is that I reread them a month ago and was disturbed by how much of it was directly relevant to the moment we are in.