They’re pulling from a playbook 1000’s of years outdated
Almost 1,700 years in the past a Christian mob in Alexandria, Egypt — stirred into spiritual frenzy by Theophilus, the Bishop of Alexandria— sacked and destroyed the immense Temple of Serapis. Tens of 1000’s of books, which have been the remnants of Alexandria’s well-known library, to not point out priceless artifacts of Greco-Egyptian historical past, have been gleefully destroyed.
Ultimately, the Temple of Serapis had confirmed too tempting a goal for rampaging monotheists, who took the Bible’s order to reject different gods fairly actually.
Quick ahead to 2025 and an analogous risk to worship freely — or in no way — has emerged. The risk comes from those that name themselves Christian nationalists.
Not all Christians are Christian nationalists, in fact. Certainly, there’s a Christians In opposition to Christian Nationalists group devoted to the separation of church and state. (See beneath.)
Nonetheless, the nationalists are rising in power, significantly amongst Republicans, greater than half of whom establish as both adherents or supporters of Christian nationalism, in line with a Public Faith Analysis Institute survey performed in late 2024. (See beneath.)
