Hey everybody. It's James Lindsay. You're listening to New Discourses Bullets, where I give a short

bullet point like summary of a single topic from Woke that we all need to understand

so that we can defeat it. I want to talk about positive Christianity today.

So I don't know if you've heard of this.

I recently did an episode of the New Discourses podcast, which is my long-form podcast, part of my

Nazi experiment series.

It is labeled volume 12 in the Nazi experiment series, talking about positive Christianity,

reading from a positive Christianity source from the Nazi era.

And I just kind of want to summarize what the idea is here.

And I will repeat the idea that I think that the Christian nationalist movement

that we're seeing here in the United States and even to some degree in European countries is something like the positive Christianity movement of the Nazis, though it's not identical.

So positive Christianity historically is a theological take. There are two kind of broad, big picture ways to look at

Christian belief. So you have a Jesus who lived and did things and then died. And when he died

was, so the Christian belief goes, resurrected. And there are kind of two ways to look at this situation. There is

the Jesus who lived and did things, that's, theologically speaking, positive Christianity.

And then there is the Jesus who died and by dying redeemed us for our sins and or from our

sins, I should say. And that is seen as something called negative Christianity,

that we're going to focus on grace as a kind of, as the key part of the Christian story,

which is not a thing that Jesus is like actively doing in the Gospels, as opposed to focusing actively on the life of Jesus.

Now, the Nazis did not represent this theology accurately, but this was a theological debate

that had been going back for a long time, but even in Germany for at least a century and pretty

significant degrees. At the time, by the way, when the Nazis

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