1. The attacks on Biden's religion point to an insufficiently discussed part of the culture war -- the difference between liberal Christians and Christian nationalists. https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1299026946446315520

2. Biden actually talks more about his faith than any major Democratic figure in recent decades -- I think you'd have to go back to Carter to find an equivalent. Doesn't matter to Christian right because Biden's liberal Catholicism is anathema.

3. Biden is a very mainstream American Christian in that for him Christianity is a mixture of church-going, good works, and social amelioration. For Christian nationalists, the faith is about preserving God's country, an idealized version of 1950s America really.

4. Christian nationalism in a nutshell is Mike Pence replacing "Jesus" with "Old Glory" in a speech paraphrasing 2 Biblical verses. In effect: America (the old white dominated America, the "real" America) is God.

5. More thoughts on the religious fissures we see playing out at the two conventions: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/religion-republican-convention/