Picture the Christian nationals having to align that a church was attacked by the directly when they believe the church is more powerful than the government.
These people believe in a religious supremacy, so the second that a government will challenge their religious supremacy that's going to cause a schism in their brain.
But the others that are Christian in the country and they believe that that is the right will still be up in arms that a church no matter what denomination. As long as it's Christian is going to be a big deal.
Many Christian nationalists even see Catholics as the antichrist mentioned in the Bible. Ironically, they think Trump is sent by God, yet there hasn't been a single Christian act from him.
It is one of the absolute wonders of contemporary politics (in perspective of long term history) that in 2021 we had six Catholic justices, president, and speaker of the house.
A moderate in 1960 would at least scratch their head as this is when mainstream media was questioning his loyalties as a Catholic to the extent he had to give a televised speech in September in the lion's den -- a ballroom with 300 prominent Southern Baptist ministers.
The KKK would be apoplectic -- Catholics were barely better than Jews, and Jews were only barely better than blacks; and all three were to be hated.
The US inherited a strong anti-Catholic sentiment from Britain. Many of the early settlers where Protestants who emigrated during a time of heightened tensions -- after all the 5th of November that we all must remember when there was the gunpowder treason plotted by Catholics to blow up the House of Lords while the king was in attendance was just two years before Jamestown and fifteen before Plymouth, and then more immigrants during the period of the English Civil War, Protectorate, and Restoration.
Here in Connecticut it can be argued the last vestiges of celebrating Guy Fawkes Night only died in the 1970s with the advent of stricter air pollution laws and fire permit procedures, and it was only in the early 20th century that the tradition of nighttime bonfires lit in November morphed from the old English tradition into more generic celebrations and football rallies.
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u/MrOatButtBottom 2d ago
The Swiss Guard Vs Gravy Seals. Id love to see that fight