Kevin DeYoung's six questions answered with brevity, clarity, and a few attempts at WID.

December 3rd, 2025.

Introduction.

So the other day, Kevin DeYoung posted this article entitled Six Questions for Christian Nationalists,

and I was quite pleased about it.

The pleasure was derived from the fact that I believe Kevin is clearly in a good place and poised

to be in a better place, and I believe real conversations between people of goodwill can only

help everybody with everything. Now, his article was kind of a beast, and so it would be possible

to launch any number of side quests while answering him, but I'm going to restrain myself. I'm simply going to limit myself to the six questions he referred to in his title. My brief answers. In my answers, I want to follow the basic structure of his article. He asks the questions in brief first, and then he expands on those same questions. I'm going to attempt the same thing. Brief answers first,

and then to become a bit more fulsome in the second round. Do you unequivocally renounce anti-Semitism,

racism, and yes, I do, and I was most grateful that Kevin acknowledged in his article that this is

something I've been careful to do over the course of many years. The one important caveat that I

would attach to this is that

anti-Semitism, racism, and Nazism need to be defined in a biblical fashion, and not as the

all-purpose slur that the left routinely deploys against anyone who stands in their way. But the

fact that these terms have been emptied of their usefulness by the left does not mean that there

is no bad behavior that now needs a new

name. There is a thing there which scripture condemns and which I condemn also. When and how does

the nation act as a corporate moral person? I would want to say moral agent instead of person,

but nations are moral agents in that they can break promises, violate treaties, conduct genocides, build temples to false gods,

enslave innocence, launch ungodly wars, dismember the unborn, grind the people with oppressive

taxation, and do all such things by means of framing mischief with the law. Psalm 94, verse 20.

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