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Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg

This has been my 4th of July reading. An apt description of how we are losing our freedoms in America. This present administration is out to destroy as much of our inalienable rights as possible. So far this has been a chilling read. Ms. Goldberg makes a distinction between "Christians" and "Christian Nationalist" or Christianity vs. Christianism.

Excerpt from a Review of the book:

In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided America, we meet military veterans pledging to seize the nation in ChristÂ’s name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the countryÂ’s social problems.


With her trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of the people behind this movement, Goldberg gains access into the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake the secular Republic bequeathed by our founders into a Christian nation run according to their interpretation of scripture. In her examination of the ever-widening divide between believers and nonbelievers, Goldberg illustrates the subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide. In an age when faith rather than reason is heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened by a mystical nationalism claiming divine sanction, Kingdom Coming brings us face to face with the irrational forces that are remaking much of America.