CNN’s dangerous narrative drift turns ordinary faith into suspicion

Responsible journalism has a standard — one that matters most when emotions run high. After 9/11, news organizations were careful to separate Islam from the extremists who claimed to act in its name. That distinction became a bedrock norm: separate a faith from those who weaponize it. The question raised by CNN’s recent documentary on “Christian nationalism” is whether that standard still applies when the faith in question is Christianity.

The most powerful part of a documentary is rarely what it proves. It’s what it implies.

CNN’s program introduces viewers to a specific and controversial set of beliefs — a network of churches that advocate a distinctly Christian society, pastors who argue that biblical law should shape civil government, and members who question pluralism and entertain restructuring voting through the household rather than the individual. It is not hard to see why those views would raise concern.

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