Mark Hall, historian and author of Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism: Why Christian Nationalism Is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church, was flying home on January 6th, 2021. During a layover, a reporter for the progressive Evangelical magazine Sojourners emailed him about religious symbols seen at the January 6 riots. While Hall did recognize a few such symbols, he warned the reporter that this was not a basis to describe the riot in the Capitol as a Christian event. This caution went unheeded and the reporter “published an article about how Christian nationalists had attacked the Capitol.” The article, Hall noted, “featured three photographs containing religious images and words, none of which were from the assault on the Capitol. Similar stories could be found in various outlets throughout the nation. Reporters were going to get their Christian nationalist insurgency, whether it had actually happened or not.”
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