Christian nationalism, Cash Patel, and the Bhagavagita.

February 26, 2025.

Introduction.

The Bhagavagita is the most prominent of the Hindu sacred texts, and so it is not at all

surprising that Cash Patel put his hand on a copy when he was sworn in as the newest director of the FBI.

And I'm really grateful that he did this because it gives us an opportunity to talk about some important stuff.

Kudos first.

Now, I have every reason to believe that Cash Patel is going to do some really good and necessary things of the FBI.

That place is badly in need of some

deep cleaning, followed by two or three rounds of humigation. All the indications are that

Patel is going to oversee a process very much like that, and I believe that all of us should be

encouraged and heartened as it all unfolds. And as he undertakes reforms at the FBI, my only hope

is that bulldozers are involved at some

point. So what I'm going to say here is not really so much a criticism of him, as it is an

opportunity to point out just how far away from Christian nationalism we actually are. This doesn't

mean that the secularists will stop freaking out about the CN threat, not to mention their media

girlfriends or the pom-poms,

but as we don't find ourselves nearly as scary as they do, this means that we at least

should be able to think through this issue carefully. What we are looking at now is a significant

increase of Christian influence within a pagan operating system, for which we should be grateful.

That is a very different thing than any eschatological form of Christian nationalism,

which is why we need to look carefully at what is actually happening now.

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