Herbert Rothschild, local newspaper columnist (Ashland.news) and community leader, will join the Jefferson Center for a discussion of Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism is a political movement based on the belief that the United States is a Christian nation and that civil government should privilege Christianity in various ways, including instituting prayer in the public schools and state support for religious schools and other church activities, despite our Constitutional commitment to separation of church and state. Christian Nationalists tend to regard their political opponents as evil agents of demonic forces and believe that their notion of God’s laws supersedes civil law. What should we make of this, and how should we deal with it?
This event is part of the Salon series of The Jefferson Center (www.thejeffcenter.org), a Rogue Valley non-profit focused on critical thinking using secular humanist values to understand and engage with issues important to our community.