a fred near-anomaly

My friend Fred is usually spot-on, but he missed badly, and I mean badly,* on his latest attempt to enlighten us. I knew the guy wasn't Christian and has shown vague contempt for Christian traditions at times, but he didn't hold back in this round. My suspicion is that he isn't so much anti-Christian, as he's shown respect toward Christianity at other times, but that he's buying into the "America is a Christian nation" myth and parlaying his well-documented (and well-founded) hatred for the current American regime into a hatred of the religion he thinks it represents. But any fool can see from a casual look at the facts that the contemporary United States and Christianity shouldn't be lumped together in any slight way and that the gap is widening.

I would offer my thoughts, but it's late and Vox has already presented a short exposition of Fred's fallacies.

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* This isn't the first time he's been off. Although he's usually thinking straight he's been way, way wrong before. His column arguing the merits of journalists as should-be presidents comes to mind. But still, despite the occasional wayward shot, he's almost always on target and is about as reliable a columnist as one could hope to find these days.