"Wilson's remarks at the Pentagon assured the audience that their battles were God’s battles, that God would be their protector just as he was for figures from scripture like Noah and David. He suggested that God’s people, having searched for the enemy, now realize they are surrounded—the implication presumably being that the real enemy is other Americans."

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"They would limit the ability of believers of other faiths—including non-Protestant Christians—to publicly practice their faith; Wilson recently said on a podcast that the theocratic society he envisions would ban mosques from broadcasting calls to prayer and prohibit Catholic parades honoring the Virgin Mary."

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"not merely condoning a form of women’s submission in marriage that has been common in evangelicalism, but also severely limiting leadership roles in the church and in government and society to men only. …

Wilson & his followers would deny not only women but also non-Christians the franchise and the right to pursue public office."

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"Wilson and other Christian nationalists draw on a framework known as 'sphere sovereignty' to interpret and apply the Bible to every area of modern life. ...

The government would advance a view of the world that is deeply patriarchal—" (continued in /5)

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"For them, a Christian nation would be governed directly by biblical law, and in every area of of its common life and culture it would be shaped by a comprehensive 'biblical world and life view.'

A Christian nation, in his account, is a nation in which there is no area of life and culture where the Bible is not the ultimate authority."

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"Proponents of America as a Christian nation are often somewhat hazy about what the end state of a 'Christian nation' would look like specifically, but Wilson and his followers have carefully laid out a detailed vision."

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"The right to live that life freely and safely gets swallowed by the fundamentalist state religion and its function as an arbiter of the nation’s will to power."

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"The rest of us, our rights, our lives, become collateral damage in this gruesome fantasy.

Christian nationalism and the Christian patriarchy that comes built in are direct threats to our basic freedoms: freedom of religion, freedom (for women) to vote, freedom for all of us to make basic choices about our own lives."

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