The Appeal to Heaven Flag commissioned by George Washington in 1775, was flown aboard American warships whose mission was to intercept and sink the British Navy. The flag symbolized strength and an appeal to the Almighty to deliver us from tyranny. Today if you fly it and happen to be a Supreme Court Justice, it means you are a "White Christian Nationalist" and you need to be impeached.
Lately the term Christian Nationalism has been bandied about quite loosely as a pejorative term meant to lump all Christians who happen to vote conservatively, into the latest "Boogie Men,"and are regarded as an existential threat to Democracy. In 1979, Jerry Falwell, founded the Moral Majority, a political force that played a key roll in the mobilization of Christians to vote for conservative issues.They stood for pro-life, pro-family, pro-Biblical morality and supported politicians who were like minded. They were then branded the "Christian Right," who were forcing their morality down everyone else's throats and who's goal was to make the USA into a theocracy. Somehow they forgot about the southern black Christian churches of the 1950's and 60's. It was their political activism that launched the Civil Right's movement of that era. The Church saw an evil in society and used civil disobedience, protest marches and rallies to raise awareness of racism and used our political system to overcome the discriminations being perpetrated against Blacks in this country. Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. was the spiritual leader of the movement that included other great leaders such as Roy Wilkins, Whitney M. Young, Jr., John Lewis, James Farmer and A. Phillip Randolph. Thanks to these men America is a better place to live in for peoples of all races, ethnicity and beliefs. I don't recall for sure, but I don't remember them being labeled the "Black Christian Right" and an existential threat to Democracy. To add to their bona fides, in my book, they were all spied upon by Hoover's FBI.
We all remember being referred to as deplorables who cling to our guns and our Bibles. The new narrative is 'White Christian Nationalists." We White Christian Republicans are Nationalist's who stormed the Capital, believe in a "White Jesus," and want Christianity to reign over the USA. We have stormed school board meetings and threatened members until they fear for their very lives and yes, these soccer moms are being investigated by the FBI. No matter, that their daughters are being raped by "transgendered females" in the bathrooms at school or kindergarten children are being exposed to homosexual porn and transgenderism. If you are against this you are most likely a White Christian Nationalist.
