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The second I saw the new home page of The Friendly Atheist with Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin and the headline about "the dangers of Christian Nationalism," I was thrilled. It strikes me as way past time that some serious and formal attention was paid to the threat of Christian Nationalism, and the fact that the panel examining it is associated with the Democratic National Convention is a very big deal to me. Clearly, those involved understand the problem: that Christian Nationalism "denied church/state separation, called for the establishment of religion, rejected the idea of no religious test for public office," and they are prepared to take action to thwart CN.

What needs to happen now is that Kamala and Tim and anyone else who is concerned about CN needs to say so OUT LOUD. Even as they are calling out Project 2025, the same needs to happen with Christian Nationalism, particularly that CN isn't any kind of Christianity as I understood it as a kid. We need to tell the general public what is going on with CN and not blink when we do it.

We have seen the enemy. It's time to kick its ass!

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The most clear difference between the two campaigns was on full display this week. The Democrats were talking about a bright future and positivity. On another station Trump is talking about high crime and a bad economy. His claims that Kamala will destroy our economy by continuing Biden's agenda fall on deaf ears at the DNC precisely because Biden's agenda pulled us back from the brink of a depression that Trump pushed us toward but on that other station they talk non-stop about high inflation and poor jobs reports. The best campaign options for the Dems is to continue to promote reality and get those moderate voters out to vote. The far left will vote for Kamala because they have no choice. The moderates need to realize that Kamala's views align with their views far more than Trump's views. Pushing the reality that Kamala represents a bright future for the US while Trump is a grumpy old man who only sees the worst in everything is the way to win.

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