Candace Owens wrote an opinion piece earlier this week for The daily feed warning that the left is politically using the term “Christian nationalism” to fuel divisions among Christians.
“If you pay attention, ‘Christian nationalist’ is everywhere these days,” wrote Owens, who describes herself as both a nationalist and a Christian. “Suddenly Christianity is being vilified, vilified and attacked. It is presented in the same vein as white supremacy. »
The conservative political commentator, who claimed she was recently blacklisted in an undisclosed post over allegations she was a Christian nationalist, noted the term was being used in a “sinister” way to suppress Christian voices by comparing their opinions to those of white people. supremacy.
She also observed how discourses about Christian nationalism have recently proliferated in mainstream media, with PBS, Axios, NPR and the New York Times all articles published on the subject in the last month alone.
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The increase in publicity follows Rob Reiner’s recent documentary “God and country“, which Owens described as “propaganda” and a “Hollywood version” on the subject of the hot spot. Although it earned just over $38,000 nationwide during its weekend of Opening last month, the film attracted attention as Reiner made the media rounds.
Owens highlighted how, during a recent interview With CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, Reiner said he produced the film because he had come to believe that Christian nationalism is well-organized and “has taken root much deeper and much deeper than I think.” never thought.”
Owens derided the idea that Christian nationalists pose the greatest threat to a country increasingly overrun by crime and other deep-seated problems.
“Now, I’m sure when you consider the myriad of issues facing our country today, what really concerns you is that there might be Christians who are also in love with our country,” she said. she declared. “They are Christian nationalists. When you see the drug dealers, the illegal immigrants, the crime rates, the gang violence, I’m sure you think it’s the Christians we should be afraid of. It’s a absurd idea.”
Owens went on to characterize the accelerating attacks on so-called Christian nationalism as the latest in a long cultural battle against Christianity in the United States.
“I think this is another attempt to divide and brainwash Christians that has been going on for decades,” she wrote.
Roughly since the removal of prayer in public schools in the 1960s, Owens said, “there has been a concerted effort to divide Christians, to embarrass them about their religion.”
“This push continues with greater force; this is exactly what is happening again with the theme of Christian nationalism,” she added.
Owens has spoken openly about his Christian faith over the years, even to the point of clashing with his colleague, Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Last November, the two men argued spat on X when Owens posted portions of the Sermon on the Mount after footage surfaced showing Shapiro criticizing her as “absolutely disgraceful” for her rhetoric on the Israel-Hamas war.
