After accounting for eight out of 10 Americans in 1976,white Christians are now a minority, a study has found. The political implications could be profoundAmerica is a Christian nation: this much has always been a political axiom, and especially for conservatives. Even someone as godless and immoral as the 45th president feels the need to pay lip service to the conception. On the Christian Broadcasting Network last year,he summarized his own theological position with the phrase: “God is the ultimate.”And in the conservative intellect, American Christianity has long been hitched to whiteness. The legal learned, and over the moment half of the 20th century,to talk approximately this connection using abstractions like “Judeo-Christian values”, alongside coded racial talk, or to let voters know which side they were on. Related: Steve Bannon defends Trump and calls Catholic church 'terrible' on immigration Related: Donald Trump is no saint,but I know why evangelicals love him Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com