America was never a Christian nation w/ Andrew Seidel (ep#53)
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2024
- “America will never be a Christian nation because the moment it becomes a Christian nation, it will cease to be America.” - Andrew Seidel
As a Canadian living in Europe, my opinion on America has shifted in sentiment through the years from "America: Great" to "America: Bad" to "America: It's Complicated."
I believe in the American experiment. Even as we've all watched a growing part of their population take a knee in loyalty to a literal con man. Most shockingly, the power structure creating Republican policy appears to be driven by Christian Nationalists.
The Christian Nationalists have been building on a dangerous lie that leads to the end of American democracy. At least, that's the opinion of Andrew Seidel.
Andrew documents the lie in his first book, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American. It's a brilliantly historical and evidence-based thesis on why America was NOT founded as a Christian nation
Christian Nationalists believe they are "taking back" America to be run, essentially, as a theocracy. And any means to accomplish that is justified under their collective crusade.
But Andrew and many Americans, despite a steady stream of death threats, refuse to go quietly into the political night.
Andrew is a constitutional and civil rights attorney, activist, and author who has been defending the First Amendment in and out of court for over a decade.
His second book, American Crusade, is about how the US Supreme Court is currently actively weaponizing religious freedom.
Andrew is VP of Communication for Americans United, a not-for-profit organization for the separation of church and state - www.au.org/
For more info. on Andrew, his books and his amazing work can be found on his website: andrewlseidel.com/
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!
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Great Show.
Love this discussion. I have both of Andrew's recent books and have just subscribed here. Good work.
Thanks for watching and subscribing DJ! :)
Andrew....good points! Haha! No interest in getting into political office, but very grateful for those who want to do so.
I’m with you Cathy. We need more people like Andrew is many countries. Because if good people don’t run it leaves a vacuum for those who only run for power. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Yup definitely, it’s not like it’s written in a piece of paper back from that time. Because if so they’d probably call it the constitution and it not say are lord Jesus Christ in it.
Thanks for watching! I recommend reading Andrew’s book The Founding Myth to learn what you’ve just mentioned is not true. America was designed to have the freedom of and FROM religion. Not to be a Christian nation.
Please cite where the Constitution references "Jesus Christ"...