Perspective: Billy Graham’s Legacy Is Conflating White Christianity And Patriotism | Lyz Lenz


[I]t’s also worth noting that the toxic brand of evangelicalism that has kneecapped American politics, the full merging of patriotism and Christianity, would not have been possible without Graham’s relentless pursuit of civil religion.

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By Lyz Lenz | February 22, 2018

Graham was in the White House on Jan. 19, 1991, the night America launched an attack on Iraq. 

There is a story we tell about America ― one that twists together the conflicting narratives of patriotism, guns and God. We tell this story every time we hold our hands over our hearts, intoning, “one nation under God,” or whenever we stand teary-eyed in a stadium honoring our troops, Blue Angels flying overhead, while someone sings “God Bless America.”

It’s there in our trucks, in the before-dinner prayers at tables in the heartland, penetrating our politics until faith and the White House become one in a nation founded on the principles of separation of church and state.

This wasn’t always the story of America.
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