Josh Hawley espouses the virtues of Christian Nationalism at conservative conference
On Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) openly identified as a member and advocate for the Christian Nationalist movement — an ideology which maintains that American law and government should be filtered through the lens of Christianity.
On Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) openly identified as a member and advocate for the Christian Nationalist movement — an ideology which maintains that American law and government should be filtered through the lens of Christianity.
“Some will say now that I am calling America a Christian Nation. And so I am,” Hawley said during a speech at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C. “And some will say that I am advocating Christian Nationalism. And so I do.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaking at NatCon: ⁰⁰”Some will say now that I am calling America a Christian nation. So I am. And some will say that I am advocating Christian nationalism. And so I do.” pic.twitter.com/ja09ThFlyM
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This is not the first time that Hawley has taken such a stance. In an essay penned for the right-wing theology magazine First Things, Hawley claimed that “Christianity is the electric current of our national life.”
“We need to recover that common ground today. Why? Because America as we know it cannot survive without biblical Christianity,” Hawley wrote in February. “The rights we cherish, the freedoms we enjoy, the ideals we love together — all are rooted in and sustained by the tradition of the Bible.”
Such beliefs would violate the Constitution because, as the think tank Political Research Associates describes, the underlying philosophy of the movement gives precedent to a specific interpretation of Christianity, a concept called dominionism.
“Dominionism promotes religious supremacy, insofar as it does not respect the equality of other religions, or even other versions of Christianity,” the group explained in an analysis of Christian Nationalism.
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