Us now via zoom hes the author of the just released book whos afraid of christian by Christian Nationalism is not a threat to america or the church. Mr. Hall good sunday to you. How do you define the term nationalism . Why . You have my own definition, but i think the important thing to begin with is how its been defined. 2006 basically starting 2006, a steady stream, books started coming out, explain that theres this group of christians theocrats who want to take over america for christ and oppress literally everyone else except for White Christian males. This is in the polemical literature by people like michelle ingersoll and Kathryn Stewart and julie, julie ingersoll, michelle goldberg, katherine stewart, Andrew Seidel. They make these claims. In 2000, 19 scholars came along and brought a bit more sense to the debate. But people like Andrew Whitehead and samuel perry defined Christian Nationalism as it stew of racism sexism. Nationalism, people who want to bring christ and country
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Us now via zoom hes the author of the just released book whos afraid of christian by Christian Nationalism is not a threat to america or the church. Mr. Hall good sunday to you. How do you define the term nationalism . Why . You have my own definition, but i think the important thing to begin with is how its been defined. 2006 basically starting 2006, a steady stream, books started coming out, explain that theres this group of christians theocrats who want to take over america for christ and oppress literally everyone else except for White Christian males. This is in the polemical literature by people like michelle ingersoll and Kathryn Stewart and julie, julie ingersoll, michelle goldberg, katherine stewart, Andrew Seidel. They make these claims. In 2000, 19 scholars came along and brought a bit more sense to the debate. But people like Andrew Whitehead and samuel perry defined Christian Nationalism as it stew of racism sexism. Nationalism, people who want to bring christ and country
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