"We have two cardinals in the US actually this week calling out the administration for violating those conditions [of Catholic teachings about the morality of war] — Cardinal Robert McEkroy of Washington DC and Cardinal Blaise Kubic of Chicago saying this war is not morally legitimate."

~ Robert P. Jones

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Normalcy and Resistance Amid an Unjust War

This week, we open the conversation with reflections on the challenges of living daily life amid the onslaught of horrific news, so often these days instigat...

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"They came out and just said that directly because it does not come anywhere near meeting the preconditionsfor anything that could be called a just war that Christians can endorse. … That's a big deal."

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"It’s that goal of privileging Christianity in law and government that I think marks the line between personal politics (potentially based in faith-informed values) and religious nationalism. The former is an individual value set that may or may not influence particular policies, but still allows for freedom for others to move religiously within the subsequent law;" (continued in /5)

~ Sarah Stankorb

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We must call Christian Nationalism precisely what it is

Clarity matters

^{Sarah Stankorb (In Polite Company)}

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"the latter seeks to impose that faith, by law and policy, on the rest of us. ...

religious nationalism has no interest in civility. Its nature is authoritarian; it does not learn from civil debate."

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