Who’s to Blame? Theological Self-Reflection as Political Self-Promotion
摘要
The Christian conservative master narrative sketched in the previous chapters explains what my respondents believed between the time of Obergefell v. Hodges and the overturning of Roe v. Wade concerning the history, substance, and destruction of America’s constitutional order. As I have argued, this narrative was a reconciliatory one that treated biblical and other Christian teachings and commands as a more-or-less exhaustive blueprint for understanding and running the nation. This reconciliatory narrative has four key plot movements: (1) two realms—the subordination of the mundane realm of subjective human opinion to the sacred realm of transcendent, objective, universal truth; (2) rebuking American liberal democracy for failing to live up to its own values of pluralism and tolerance, chiefly because of the unfair treatment, and even persecution, of Christian conservatives; (3) replacing America’s liberal democratic constitutional order with a substantively Christian constitutional order, at least mentally and imaginatively through revisionist historical, political, and legal analysis; and (4) restoring America to the largely imagined demands of this Christian constitutional order.