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Tomorrow is election day in the United States. It will be two more years before we get another chance to rebuke the Christian Nationalists who are intent on turning our country into a toxic theocracy not that different from countries running under the Sharia law that they all claim to hate. I contend that it is far better to stop them now so we can limit the damage as much as we can. A lot of that damage has already been done, and more is on the way if they win again.
You can argue all you want that both major political parties are the same. I'm a progressive myself and am often frustrated by the centrist, corporatist leanings of a lot of Democrats. Progressive policies are popular, but wealthy donors on both sides of the aisle work to keep them from even being implemented. That sameness prevents a lot of political discussions that we should be having about many important issues. This election, though, one big difference is clear. The Republican Party supports Christian Nationalism and the Democratic Party does not.
Christian Nationalism is not just another political ideology. It is the very dangerous idea that all non-Christians - and Christians who don't worship the "right way" - should be relegated to second-class citizens. It contends that civil law should be based on the Bible, and not just the Bible as written, pushes its own cherry-picked interpretations of Biblical law as defined by specific churches. They violently oppose homosexuality and abortion, which Jesus said nothing about, and have no problem mistreating the poor, which Jesus said a lot about.
Surveys show that only about ten percent of the population is committed to Christian Nationalist ideology, but about another twenty percent is "sympathetic" to it. I know that nothing I write is ever going to reach the True Believers, but if you are at all sympathetic to the movement you should realize that they aren't going to stop with non-Christians. If you're the wrong kind of Christian, they'll outlaw you too once they're done with everybody else.
