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Hodl Be Thy Name: My Adventures With Bitcoin’s True Believers

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One of the themes that emerged in my reporting on The contemporary idea that America was founded as—and was intended by God to be—a Christian nation. Learn more was persecution—specifically the idea that Christians were being oppressed and hunted the world over because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Persecution is a powerful narrative because it gives the persecuted group a sense of unity and purpose. Frederick Clarkson, a researcher who has long studied the A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more at the pro-democracy think tank Political Research Associates, told me that in many charismatic communities, the idea of persecution binds a group together that might not otherwise have much in common. ‘Once you’ve established that people are in a community together and that there’s some formidable opponent that’s out to get us, and we’re all together,’ he said, ‘an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.’”

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