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Blog & Mablog

A Daisy Chain of Non Sequiturs

Blog & Mablog

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to Douglas Wilson's blog and May blog, presented by Canon Press.

0:07.0

A daisy chain of non-sequitors, July 25th, 2022.

0:15.0

So let us talk for just a moment about Christian nationalism, not the bee, and me.

0:19.6

A couple weeks ago, I made some headlines, just like the man with the corduroy pillow.

0:24.0

I had written a blog post in which I explained, co-gently, the sense in which we should

0:28.4

want America to be a Christian nation.

0:31.0

We want our nation to be a Christian nation because we want all the nations to be Christian

0:34.8

nations.

0:35.8

We want this because we love Jesus and want to do what he told us to do.

0:39.8

An outfit called right-wing watch was unsettled by it, and they had this to say about it.

0:44.6

Quote, Christian nationalism isn't enough for radical right-wing pastor Douglas Wilson.

0:49.1

Quote, how many of these Christian nations are there supposed to be?

0:52.5

No set numbers given, but the simple answer is all of them.

0:55.9

All the nations of men are to be brought into submission to Christ.

0:59.6

Not to be then posted their reaction, along with the comment that indicated that they thought

1:04.0

that a conservative Christian pastor ought to be able to believe conservative Christian

1:07.5

things, but maybe that's just them.

1:10.0

All of this naturally generated some comments in my Twitter feed, big surprise, but then

1:14.4

I also got a letter in the old time email from a woman who wanted to correct me on a few

1:19.0

things.

1:20.0

Because I believe that her misunderstandings are widely shared, and because they came

1:23.9

to me on actual paper, I thought it might be good to give a brief response to some of

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