How Not to Think about January 6 and Christianity

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Security forces try to keep protesters out of the U.S. Capitol during a protest against the certification of the 2020 presidential election results by Congress in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters)
A recent attempted examination of the supposed connection between ‘Christian nationalism’ and January 6 falls short in its analysis.




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he Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) and the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently released a lengthy document titled “Christian Nationalism and the January 6, 2021, Insurrection.” The report is intended to fill a perceived gap in studying “the role that Christian nationalism played in bolstering, justifying, and intensifying the attack on the U.S. Capitol,” writes BJC executive director Amanda Tyler. Even within a week of its release, it is already being received as an authoritative resource on the question; for example, David French at the Dispatch linked to it without comment in a recent Sunday newsletter.

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