In states including North Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia, half or nearly half of residents support the view that Christians should dominate all areas of American society, including its laws, according to a new survey about the influence of Christian nationalism by the Public Religion Research Institute, based on interviews with more than 22,000 people.
The nonprofit’s latest research mapped support across all 50 states for a set of religious beliefs that used to belong to the fringes of Christianity in the United States.
Nationally, about three in ten Americans believe, or at least sympathize with, ideas that claim the U.S. is a Christian nation and that the country’s laws should draw from Christian values.
The follow up question to something insane like this should always be what sect of Christianity? Should it be Catholics? Should it be Protestants? Should it be TV evangelicals?
None of the major groups would want one of the others making the rules anymore than the rest of the US wants to live under the laws of the Church.