The Atlantic ran an opinion piece this week by Canadian historian, Daniel Panneton - under their cringe-inducing, market tested, euphemistically named Ideas section - originally entitled, How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol. By mid-day, this idea had received enough online backlash that the editors made multiple changes to its headline, subheading and lead graphic. On the surface, the original configuration was a no-holds-barred attack on a very theologically conservative subset of Roman Catholics, who call themselves “radical-traditional”. A deeper examination of the piece reveals that, like most mainstream articles on “Christian Nationalism”, it was a thinly veiled attack on the traditional, Christian ethic itself.