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When the State Co-opts Religion
If you are not already in this fight, the question is simpler than the noise.
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The Myth of Neutrality
Essay V of Christ, the Nations, and the Public Square Earlier essays refused to treat America as Zion, and refused to treat her as a machine without God. They kept particular peoples without turning blood into a gospel. The Two Slogans showed how a popular pair of sentences tries to
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Particular Peoples, Ordered Loves, and the Charge of Kinism
Essay IV of Christ, the Nations, and the Public Square Essay I owned a name and distinguished an affection from a claim. Essay III refused to treat America as Zion. The next charge is almost automatic. If nations are real, you must mean blood. If you love a people, you
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“America Was Never a Christian Nation”
Essay III of Christ, the Nations, and the Public Square Essay I owned a name. Essay II kept a word. This one takes the slogan that is meant to shut the argument before it starts. “America was never a Christian nation.” Say it with enough confidence and you do not
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What Fascism Actually Is (and Isn’t)
Essay II of Christ, the Nations, and the Public Square Essay I said that Christian nationalism, in the use we mean, is not Mussolini, and is not religion used as a tool of a pagan state. That sentence will not survive contact with the present dictionary unless we do some
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Christian Nationalism vs. Christian Patriotism
Essay I of Christ, the Nations, and the Public Square Some Christians want the substance and not the name. Call it patriotism. Call it conservatism. Call it “a Christian view of the magistrate.” Leave “nationalism” to the people who will abuse it, and to the people who will use it