They’re pulling from a playbook hundreds of years outdated
Practically 1,700 years in the past a Christian mob in Alexandria, Egypt — stirred into non secular frenzy by Theophilus, the Bishop of Alexandria— sacked and destroyed the immense Temple of Serapis. Tens of hundreds 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 identical menace to worship freely — or in no way — has emerged. The menace comes from those that name themselves Christian nationalists.
Not all Christians are Christian nationalists, in fact. Certainly, there’s a Christians Towards Christian Nationalists group devoted to the separation of church and state. (See under.)
Nonetheless, the nationalists are rising in energy, notably amongst Republicans, greater than half of whom determine as both adherents or supporters of Christian nationalism, in accordance with a Public Faith Analysis Institute survey carried out in late 2024. (See under.)
