New Heaven, New Earth
A close look at the roots of Christian nationalism shows it to be a recent corporate contrivance
Chris Lehmann
The dirty secret of all American religion is its novelty. The sanctums of American faith resemble less a solemn pantheon of immutable divinity than a cluttered tinkerer’s workshop, with spare parts from one tradition carelessly soldered onto another, hastily scrawled blueprints on the whiteboard, and false starts and failed prototypes strewn throughout the works.
By itself, the improvisational nature of American belief
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