Religious extremism has gained hold of federal and red states government. How do we shove it back?
What we have done so far isn't working. It's spreading like a metastasizing cancer.
Is it because we keep using phrases like Christian Nationalists, Christian Fascists, and the Christian Taliban? I suspect it is, because that just constantly reinforces their supposed Christianity, as if those are just branches of the "true vine." New denominations, if you will.
All of those are forms of christopretensism. Those promoting it are christopretenders. As we use the word, it clarifies what is really going on and keeps from reinforcing their ability to pass themselves off and deceive people to gain power, control, and money. Hope it makes the dictionary before long.
The person who proposed it is very flawed, but the word and its derivatives is too useful to let that stop it from getting used.
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