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Christian Nationalism, the movie.

December 13th, 2023.

Introduction.

This was inevitable, I suppose.

Rob Reiner financed and produced a movie called God and Country, a movie to warn us all about the impending threat called

Christian nationalism. This somehow constituted a compelling invitation to erstwhile

conservatives like David French and Russell Moore to clamber on board in order to help the secularist put the worst possible construction on whatever it is that is happening in the conservative Christian world.

We will get to that in a little bit. You notice that the clip below Reiner's tweet has a disclaimer that says the clip has some

quote potentially sensitive content.

That content appears to consist of people disagreeing with Rob Reiner,

which just by itself almost garnered the film in our rating.

I appreciated Meg's observation as well.

She knows, as few others do, what sort of play is being run on us.

As I've often said, the battle swirling around us is a battle for the editorial

control of the dictionary. In this movie, the secularists have assayed to define

for us both through words and images the true meaning of Christian nationalism.

As Meg noted, that phrase and those meanings were going to be assigned to us regardless

come hell or high water. They were also going to be assigned to us come heck or ankle deep water.

They were also going to be assigned to us come heck or ankle deep water. They were also going to be assigned to us come

sunshine and a damp spot on the pavement. We, meaning all of us over here in Bibleland,

were going to be called Christian Nationalist, whatever happened. You say you didn't want to call yourself a Christian

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