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Christian nationalism and other things that scared this real bad Monday, July 11th, 2022.

Introduction.

If you are an evangelical, you believe that Christ gave us the task of proclaiming the gospel

of Christ to others in the hope of persuading them to repent of their sins and believe

the gospel.

If you still have the name evangelical, but you don't believe that anymore, then you

need to figure out how to respond to those Christians who do still believe that the

great commission, the way Jesus gave it, applies to us today.

One of the things you can do is rename whatever the heck it is you're doing, that outreach

light stuff and call it missional, and then you can turn around and accuse the old timey

Christians of being Christian nationalists.

Sounds pretty bad, right?

But before defending Christian nationalism, there really are some appalling and blast

from this image is out there in the fever swamps of the screwy right.

And I can say this because I've seen them.

If you look over to the immediate right, you will then be able to say that you've seen

them also.

But if you take a look at the image right below that, the one that says that the repeal

of row is all about imposing, quote, unquote, Christian nationalism, and which therefore

relegates all responsible pro-lifers into the same category as the nutters, you have to

acknowledge that this is standard operating procedure for the left, from their fever swamps

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