Honestly it’s scary to think just how pervasive Christian nationalism has become in politics and it’s even scarier that most people don’t even realize it, on all points of the political spectrum.
I remember watching a story around the time that David duke was trying to get into politics and a white nationalist was saying the days of klan meetings and pointy hats is over, from now on it will be business suits and politics. I remember thinking, lol good luck with that, no one is going to buy your politics and believe you. Boy was I wrong!
I think people are unaware of 'the purity thingi' that runs through conservative moral concerns, the feeling of a fear of being contaminated by impurities via contact with them. This is another of those genetic survival evolutionary adaptions that mitigate against a repeat contamination with some food source that made an animal sick. Gagging and retching are the bodies ways of rejecting food poisoning.
But because humans use language that carry abstract meaning that can acquire emotional associations we can be made to retch just by thinking and those associations can be made about our own personal behaviors. How many times in your life do you think you have been called disgusting. That would have no effect at all had you not early on been made to believe that disgusting actions exist. Have you seen the video of a young chimp that smells his own behind and falls out of a tree. Very amusing and you know the reason why. "Me, I have no idea."
So we have the caste system in India, the phenomenon of aristocracy etc. racial superiority, national superiority, the only religions, all of these nonsensical phenomena built of a need to feel pure having experienced the personal horror of being rejected for something or other that our parents found impure in our behavior, a feeling of worthlessness we never want to feel again but now love to insult others with to remind us of how much better we are than they.
It is especially pronounced in religions because they are based on the concept of good and evil, and specifically the fear of damnation implied by evil
It is that fear, the fear of feeling impure, being made to feel worthless because of certain behaviors every human being will express naturally as a child that lies behind "purity madness".
It was this clinging to the notion of sin in religion, the need to deny one is sinful because of fear of damnation that flows out of having been damned as a child that Jesus gave his life to tell us not to fixate in that state because we have been forgiven. Naturally we have been because there is no such thing as sin other than the belief it exists.
But while God has forgiven us that will not penetrate most people's fear they are already condemned and can't ever be forgiven. Few Christians have any real faith. They will not suffer their inner grief and heal.