In today’s Dallas Morning News, I point out that Christian nationalism stands in opposition to the values that made America great.
Christian nationalists believe America was founded to be a Christian nation and Christianity should have a favored status. But our actual founding was quite different.
Our nation was born out of a disgust of the centuries of religious warfare and intolerance wrought by state-sponsored religion. Our founders intentionally designed a government that would embrace toleration and pluralism and wouldn’t show favoritism toward any particular religious group. Our religious freedom rests upon these beliefs today.