Reply #34: you're right, but you can't win

[Lexingtonian]

The "Christian Nation" stuff is a pretty perfect illustration of what Richard Dawkins call a 'meme'. There's very tenuous evidence to support it and a psychological need for it to be true, and a desire for it to be true, and less-than-absolute disproof. The psychological need and desire for it keeps it in circulation.

Someone coined the term "Settler Judaism" as the ideological label for the Israeli crazies out to dispossess the Palestinians of the West Bank under the color of religion.

This is "Settler Christianity". Part of the game of legitimizing crimes perpetrated by an ideological group is by showing historical authenticity/continuity/identity with groups that are considered beyond judgment/criticism. That's what the effort is about.

But even if they fail, as they must, remember that Christian Nation is an ideological idea they have about the future more than the past.

Personally, my considered opinion of the Christian Nation bit is that it lowers the standard of justice and perverts government. That's an argument I've never seen them be able to mount a counter to.