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A Quick Christian Nationalism Walk Through

Blog & Mablog

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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A quick Christian nationalism walkthrough, April 3rd, 2024. So let us start at the base of the

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stairs and go up them one at a time.

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Every society of necessity must have a final locus of authority.

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That authority must either be contingent and within the system or absolute and outside the system.

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If there is no absolute authority outside the system, then the contingent authority within the

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system has become functionally absolute.

0:31.5

It is not and cannot be absolute, but it can try to act like it is.

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In short, if there is no absolute above the state, then the state becomes absolute. In blunter

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terms, if there is no God over the state, then the state has been made God.

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To acquiesce in this arrangement would be to use the biblical term idolatry.

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It therefore follows that it is our duty and responsibility to confess the true God as the sovereign over all human society

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and over every form of human society. All societies are moral agents and consequently make decisions

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that can be morally praised or condemned.

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All moral agents are answerable to the God who created them.

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It therefore follows that all societies have the responsibility

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to acknowledge the true God of heaven because he is the one who will praise or condemn their actions at the last day.

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To postulate a false God as occupying that place outside the system is to be guilty of a more subtle form of idolatry,

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but it is still idolatry, a construct of human

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devising, not truly outside the system, but rather projected there by human

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contrivance. To make the principle obvious, let us stipulate a cargo

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cult somewhere that worships a Nike

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sneaker that washed up on their beach treating the sneaker as an

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