Not made up Arby, the actual definition
When people hear the phrase “white Christian nationalism” in the news, they do not always get the correct meaning.
“A common misunderstanding would be that it is the same thing as being a patriotic Christian,” said
Philip Gorski(Link is external) (Link opens in new window), chair of the Department of Sociology at Yale. “Patriotism is an adherence to the ideals of the United States, and nationalism is loyalty to your tribe and not the country.”
In a recent book with sociologist
Samuel L. Perry(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) of the University of Oklahoma, Gorski traces white Christian nationalism in the United States to the late 1600s. Adherents believe in the idea that America was founded by Christians who modeled its laws and institutions after Protestant ideals with a mission to spread the religion and those ideals in the face of threats from non-whites, non-Christians, and immigrants.
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