Jason DeRose
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first heard Nov 2024
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The government is secular, but the nation itself is actually very religious.
For a Western democracy, the United States is one of the most religiously identified countries on the planet.
Part of why I think...
scholars who study this say that is the case, is that there is that idea of both free exercise and disestablishment, that you can come here and practice the faith that you choose to practice or no faith at all, and the government will not tell you that you cannot do that, that it is disestablished.
You know, America was founded, you know, away from
European countries that had national state churches.
The pilgrims were trying to get away from religious oppression.
So I would say this is not a secular nation.
This is a very religious nation, especially compared to other Western democracies.
But it is not a nation that has an established religion by the government.
Well, I mean, I think part of what's going on in the Trump administration is that the Trump administration knows who their base is and they are playing to that base.
The question, I think, from a political point of view is, you know, is that percentage enough to continue growing?
in power or are there enough of the other groups that say, no, we are Christians of a different sort or we are Muslims or Jews or Buddhists of a different sort or Hindus of a different sort and do not agree with those policies and that a minority group, which white evangelicals are a minority group in the United States,
The question is, do they get to set the legislative and political agenda for the United States?
I mean, I think it is interesting to me that part of the rhetoric of conservative white evangelicals is that they are the oppressed minority in the United States.
That they say, we live in this godless secular society, and we are this small group of people fighting for God and country.
What I find interesting about that is that they are a minority, but they don't seem to be oppressed, in part because they tend to be straight white people.
But part of the self-understanding is that they are under attack from secular society.
Using the Bible and their understanding of the Christian faith to describe how America should be, I think, is in part wanting to claim or they might say reclaim what had been a majority in the United States.
You know, it's still a majority.
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