Hodl Be Thy Name: My Adventures With Bitcoin’s True Believers
“One of the themes that emerged in my reporting on Christian nationalism 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 Christian right 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.’”