Rejecting Christian Nationalism Is What Jesus Would Do

[Nevilledog]

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As a pastor, if there’s one thing I understand, it’s that Christian nationalism is unchristian and unpatriotic. Academic researchers define the authoritarian ideology as a political worldview—not a religion.

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Rejecting Christian Nationalism Is What Jesus Would Do
Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene who wrap themselves in T-shirts proclaiming to be “proud Christian Nationalists” are really wolves in sheep’s clothing.
7:57 AM · Aug 8, 2022

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In 1915, the Ku Klux Klan found revival at Stone Mountain in Georgia in a ceremony that included a U.S. flag and a Holy Bible placed on an altar before a burning cross.

More than a century later, today’s generation of white supremacists are following in their political ancestors’ footsteps, explicitly and proudly embracing the label of “Christian nationalist.” Some are even going so far as to sell merch, with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) hawking “exclusive” shirts emblazoned with “Proud Christian Nationalist.”

Even before she began advertising the shirts on Instagram with the call to stand against the “Godless Left,” Greene told an interviewer that the Republican Party needs “ to be the party of nationalism and I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.”

It’s not the first time she has embraced the label. And it’s a dangerous turn of events that requires active, loud opposition from all of us, especially from American Christians, for whom Greene and her allies claim to speak.

As a pastor, if there’s one thing I understand, it’s that Christian nationalism is unchristian and unpatriotic. Academic researchers define the authoritarian ideology as a political worldview—not a religion—that unconstitutionally and unbiblically merges Christian and American identities, declaring that democracy does not matter because America is a “Christian nation” where only conservative Christians count as true Americans.

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[The Magistrate]

1. The Guy's Heart Is In The Right Place, Ma'am

And he's doing what Christians who are decent people ought to all be doing. Still, once 'what Jesus really taught' appears, we're deep into 'no true Scotsman' territory.

[Nevilledog]

3. I like a good fairytale now and then.*

*This specifically excludes the Bible.

[Mosby]

6. Exactly right, sir.

Christians define their religion anyway they want. They're still Christians.

[durablend]

2. The CPAC crowd would've sprayed Jesus with AR-15 bullets

[Tree Lady]

4. I have read the bible many times

When I was younger. Makes me think of Jesus and the Pharisees and him calling them out for being hypocrites. He was angry at them for thinking they were righteous when they were not. He upended the tables for money they set up in the temple.

This is how I see the evangelical sect, they think they are righteous, godly, but if Jesus were to be right in front of them they wouldn't recognize him, because he wouldn't fit their image of him.

[cutroot]

5. Jesus called them Pharisees

The Pharisees paid a great deal of attention to outward ordinances and actions that would make them appear righteous, but they were not as concerned with actually being righteous in their hearts. For this Jesus referred to them as hypocrites.