Christianity seeks mercy, not power. A true Christian nation is not about nationalism

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Rev. Joseph Farnes, The Idaho Statesman

In what way is America a Christian nation?

Seriously, I’m asking.

Christian nationalism has been on the rise again. Christian nationalism is a conflation of Christianity and nationalism masquerading as patriotism. It assumes that true Americans must be Christian, and Christianity (or what passes as Christianity) should be enshrined in law.

Christian nationalism emerges out of fear that, without special protection, this narrow Christianity will lose its grip on culture and politics and wither away. Certain Christians in the United States preach this message, and they find comrades in Russia’s Orthodox Church, whose patriarch supported the invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/christianity-seeks-mercy-not-power-a-true-christian-nation-is-not-about-nationalism/ar-AAXP2ms

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The Christo-Nazis have co-opted Jesus for their purposes.

[wnylib]

3. They have, yes. But many other Christians

have not. Many Christians agree with the Episcopal priest quoted in the OP.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Politics and religion use each other to gain power and wealth.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. They always have.

[czarjak]

2. In a fake way?

[relayerbob]

4. People need to start calling out these religious nuts for what they are ...

Anti-Christians. That's who they follow.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

[relayerbob]

8. No, they practice the exact opposite of Christianity

And worship false prophets. I'll stick with Anti-Christians.

There are lots of "political Christians", Jimmy Carter, for example, that actually attempt to use the tenets of their faith to help others. These folks do not.

[lees1975]

10. Trump has tried to change Christian doctrine and theology and throw out what he doesn't like

and many Evangelicals have allowed him to do it.


https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-subversion-of-christian-church.html

[lees1975]

9. There is no Christian theology that provides for the conversion of nations or countries

Christianity is a faith that comes about as the result of individual conversion. There is no such thing as collective conversion.

If you really want to see what a "Christian nation" would look like, which would be a country in which the majority of its people had converted to Christianity and determined to live by Christian principles, look at the first century Christian church in Jerusalem as described in the first few chapters of the book of Acts. They lived communally, holding everything of material wealth in common, and distributed it as it was needed. Becoming a member of the community was based solely on conversion to Christianity, not on race or nationality or language spoken. And they governed themselves congregationally, when an issue arose or a question that would affect the whole community came up, they gathered together and made the decision as a body by consensus (Acts 4:32-37; Acts 6:1-6; Acts 15:22-35).

Christian faith dies when it is imposed. It becomes tyrannical and self-serving. The history of the church as an agent of and institution of the state is anti-Christian, adopting doctrinal standards that were contrary to the teachings of Christ and the apostles, distortions and impositions by force. The entire history of the persecution of Christians in western civilization is a persecution of true believers by an institutional, state church bent on enforcing conformity. That's exactly what white Christian nationalism does. Look at how Native Americans were treated in this country, all in the name of "conversion" but really in the name of a philosophy of Christian nationalism known as "Anglo-Israelism", the idea that God had "chosen" white people and given them a fresh start on a new continent in order to re-establish his kingdom on earth. That's not a Christianity based on any Biblical theology or doctrine.

[world wide wally]

11. "Render unto Ceaser that which is Ceaser's"

[GoldandSilver]

12. Hey, how can you lose with god always on your side?

Christian nationalism is just another way to say fascism.