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guillaumeb

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Fri Aug 25, 2017, 02:09 PM Aug 2017

Blood and Faith: A new book links white nationalists to Christianity [View all]

From the article:

There were no burning crosses or other hijacked symbols of religion on obvious display when white nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month chanting “blood and soil,” a slogan dug up from the dredges of Nazism.
But Damon T. Berry, an assistant professor of religious studies at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.,  says the links between white nationalists and religion — especially Christianity — were there.
In his new book, “Blood & Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism,” Berry traces how white nationalists — who believe whites are superior to other races and promote a whites-only vision of America — have cherry-picked Scripture to craft their exclusive ideology. He spoke about the book and the rise of Christian white supremacists with Religion News Service.




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http://religionnews.com/2017/08/23/blood-and-faith-a-new-book-links-white-nationalists-to-christianity/
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