American Christians Are Special? Really?

According to American Christians, well the ultra-Religious Right fundamentalist variety anyway, American Christians are special and entitled – ditto Christianity. I've culled the following headlines from full-text stories posted on the “Right Wing Watch” website that illustrate this all too clearly.

*Poll Finds ‘Christian Nation’ Notion Catching - Thank the Far Right’s Marketing Effort. (Posted 12 September 2007)

*First Amendment Rights Are For Christians Only! (Posted 13 August 2010)

*The Religious Right’s Exclusive Claim to Religious Freedom. (Posted 16 August 2010)

*Celebrate the 4th with a Christian Nation Bible [by Christian publisher Thomas Nelson Inc.] (Posted 3 July 2012)

*Conservative Group Tells Iowans Gov’t Will Become ‘Corrupted’ if it’s Not Led by Christians. (Posted 29 January 2016)

*Trump’s Dominionist Prayer Warriors Organizing To Build Christian Nation. (Posted 14 March 2017)

*POTUS Shield’s Frank Amedia: ‘We Shall Take This Nation Back For God’. (Posted 16 August 2017)

*AFA [American Family Association]: Religious Tests Are Perfectly Acceptable. (Posted 14 December 2009)

*The Awakening: More Right-Wing Preaching Needed to Save America. (Posted 24 April 2013)

*[Matt] Barber: Hobby Lobby Decision ‘Bodes Very Well’ For Christians Who Want To Discriminate Against Gays. (Posted 7 July 2014)

*David Barton and Andrew Wommack Say That Christians ‘Are Supposed To Be Ruling In This World’. (Posted 6 June 2018)

*[Jerry] Boykin: Christians Must Go On the Offensive against Islam. (Posted 7 November 2011)

*‘We’re The Government’: Jerry Boykin Says Our Government Was Founded to Be Run by Christians. (Posted 8 September 2015)

*[Herman] Cain: No Religion in Politics Except For “Biblical Principles”. (Posted 4 April 2011)

*Ben Carson: Christians Can Refuse To Do Their Jobs Because ‘This Is A Judeo-Christian Nation’. (Posted 9 September 2015)

*CADC [Christian Anti-Defamation Commission] Fisks Year-Old Obama Speech to Prove Christianity’s Superiority. (Posted 5 February 2010)

*Ted Cruz Vows To ‘Always, Always, Always’ Stand for The Right of Christians to Discriminate Against Gays. (Posted 21 May 2015)

*[Dave] Daubenmire: Not Allowing Christians To Bully Gays Is A Form Of Bullying Against Christians. (Posted 25 October 2013)

*Dave Daubenmire: White, Heterosexual Christians Are The Only Hope For America. (Posted 26 May 2016)

*[Republican South Carolina Senator Jim] DeMint: God Has Put Christians ‘in Charge of this Vineyard we Call America’. (Posted 27 June 2012)

*Leader of Trump Cabinet Bible Study [Ralph Drollinger]: God Only Hears Prayers of ‘Righteous’ Christians. (Posted 11 July 2017)

*Bible Study Leader [Ralph Drollinger] Wants Trump Cabinet Members To Use Their Positions To Spread Christianity. (Posted 7 May 2018)

*[Bryan] Fischer: All Immigrants Must “Convert To Christianity”. (Posted 8 April 2011)

*[Bryan] Fischer: Public Prayers Should “Be Reserved For Christians and Jews”. (Posted 29 August 2011)

*[Bryan] Fischer: “It’s Not a Problem When a Christian Says That”. (Posted 31 August 2011)

*[Bryan] Fischer Doubles Down, Demands Muslim Immigrants Convert to Christianity. (Posted 16 February 2012)

*[Bryan] Fischer: The Sale of Bacon Proves That America Is A Christian Nation. (Posted 16 September 2014)

*Bryan Fischer Wants To Require All Immigrants to Convert To Christianity. (Posted 22 September 2014)

*[Bryan] Fischer: All Immigrants are Welcome in America Provided They Convert to Christianity. (Posted 29 September 2015)

*Bryan Fischer: ‘We [Christians] are Smarter than the Smartest People in This Country’. (Posted 16 June 2016)

*Bryan Fischer: Jewish People & Other Non-Christians Don’t Have First Amendment Rights. (Posted 2 May 2018)

*[Louie] Gohmert: God has Ordained Christians to Run the Country. (Posted 19 October 2010)

*Rep. Jody Hice Tells Conservative Christian Pastors That ‘This Is Our Country, It’s Our Turf’. (Posted 6 April 2017)

*E.W. Jackson: Public Schools Should Be Teaching Prayer, The Bible And Christianity. (Posted 20 March 2017)

*[Harry] Jackson: Christians Deserve Tax Cuts and Applause. (Posted 22 October 2010)

*[D. James Kennedy]: “It Is Dominion We Are After. World Conquest … And We Must Never Settle For Anything Less”. (Posted 26 August 2011)

*Steve King Proves That America is a Christian Nation. (Posted 31 May 2013)

*Gordon Klingenschmitt: Christians Must Run For Office So the Church Can ‘Take Over the Government’. (Posted 26 October 2017)

*Dave Kubal: Christians Must Align With Elected Officials to Advance the Kingdom of God Through Government. (Posted 12 March 2018)

*Pro-Trump Prophet [Hank Kunneman]: God Chose Trump to Establish A ‘Blood Right’ To Allow The Church to Rule America. (Posted 30 January 2018)

*Joni Lamb: America is a Christian Nation and if You Don’t Like it, ‘You Shouldn’t Live Here’. (Posted 19 November 2012)

*GOP Partner David Lane Calls for Christianity as ‘Official Religion’ of US. (Posted 21 May 2015)

*Sen. James Lankford And Rep. Randy Forbes Want To Protect ‘Corporate Conscience’ So Christians Are Free To Discriminate. (Posted 18 March 2015)

*Scott Lively: ‘Religious Freedom’ Only Applies to Christians, and that’s Why God’s Punishing Us with Gay Rights. (Posted 4 August 2015)

*CPAC: A Christian Nation Needs a Biblical Military [According to GOP congressional candidate Ilario Pantano]. (Posted 10 February 2011)

*[Tony] Perkins Agrees With [Robert] Jeffress That Voters Should Prefer Christian Leaders. (Posted 24 October 2011)

*FRC [Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins] Cites Bogus George Washington Story to Promote Christian Nationalism. (Posted 28 October 2013)

*Tony Perkins: No Religion in Government, Unless It’s My Religion. (Posted 15 January 2015)

*[Janet] Porter Gets Choked Up Talking About How God Is Using Christians to Save America. (Posted 3 May 2011)

*Lila Rose: The Church Must ‘Rise Up’ because ‘This is Our Nation’. (Posted 8 May 2012)

*[Donald] Trump: America Is a Judeo-Christian Nation Because ‘That’s The Way It Is’. (Posted 10 June 2016)

*[Donald] Trump: US Built on Judeo-Christian Values, Things ‘So Different From What Our Country Used to Be’. (Posted 24 August 2016)

*David Whitney: Government Should Be Christian-Only. (Posted 6 July 2016)

*[Tim] Wildmon: ‘Satan Hates America’ Because This Nation Was Created to Spread the Christian Gospel. (Posted 23 July 2015)

*Rick Wiles: ‘You Don’t Have the Right To Worship Lucifer in This Country’. (Posted 10 October 2017)

This is what is known in the trade as trying to justify your bigotry.

However…

*Conservative Columnist George Will: ‘Christian Nation’ Version of History Is Hooey. (Posted 27 November 2006)

*Random Book Blogging: The Declaration of Independence Did Not Establish a Christian Nation. (Posted 8 March 2011)

*Trump Cabinet Bible Study Pastor Ralph Drollinger on the ‘Fallacy of Christian Nationalism’. (Posted 30 January 2018)