Completely disagree; let's see the proof.

First of all, people don't spend so much time on the question of what culture they are. Secondly, except for a fringe group of right wingers, americans don't confound nationalism with their religion.

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Completely disagree; let's see the proof.
First of all, people don't spend so much time on the question of what culture they are. Secondly, except for a fringe group of right wingers, americans don't confound nationalism with their religion.


but many in other countries do.especially in muslim territories as reza explained.
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I completely disagree too. This may be true in Europe to some degree but not America. Declaring your christianity, (I love when my spell checker goes off when I don't capitalize christianity, lol), affirms your solidarity with a subset of people in America. It also doesn't show nationalism, if anything it shows you're a part of something you feel transcends your nation - or is a nation in of itself. I don't see why he ties this to political borders in this way, it may be useful for problem solving, but it's misleading.

christianity can be broke down in three subsets:
1.liberal=roman catholic,episcopalian etc etc.
2.evangelical= baptist,pentacostal etc etc.
3.fundamentalist=southern baptist,church of the nazarene etc etc.

there are a myriad of christian sects based on calvinism,ecclastiastical and davidian teachings.add to that a ton more and you may get the picture.christianity is as diverse as islam or hindu (ok,not hindu.those guys throw nothing away).
there are many in the evangelical sect that conflate their nationalism with their religion.this has been subtley coerced since the late 70's by evangelical preachers and has been reinforced by the political party (republican).
now you may not conflate your religion with your sense of nationalism,but a third of america does.this is what reza is speaking about.