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A review by cclift1114
American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church by Andrew L. Whitehead
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I would highly recommend this book for any Christian American, and even for those that are not Christian, in order to better understand how white Christian nationalism has come to be so dominant in America and how it undermines the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. I was surprised at how intersectional this book was in addressing how white Christian nationalism seeks to attack all kinds of minorities. I appreciated Whitehead’s treatment of this topic and how he can speak to these issues so well having been raised in American Christian Evangelicalism. One line in particular that really stuck with me on how white Christian nationalists operate was the idea of the inverted golden rule, in which you “expect from others what you would do unto them,” especially when working from a place of fear.