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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/20/end-of-white-christian-americaPublished by: THE GUARDIAN on 20 Sep 2017
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After accounting for eight out of 10 Americans in 1976, white Christians are now a minority, a study has found. The political implications could be profound America is a Christian nation: this much has always been a political axiom, especially for conservatives. Even someone as godless and immoralas the 45th president feels the need to pay lip service to the idea. On the Christian Broadcasting Network last year, he summarized his own theological position with the phrase: “God is the ultimate.”
And in the conservative mind, American Christianity has long been hitched to whiteness. The right learned, over the second half of the 20th century, to talk about this connection using abstractions like “Judeo-Christian values”, alongside coded racial talk, to let voters know which side they were on.
But change is afoot, and US demographics are morphing with potentially far-reaching consequences. Last week, in a report entitled America’s Changing Religious Identity, the nonpartisan [...]
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