Roughly one in three Americans are Christian nationalists or sympathetic to the cause, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, also found strong connections between support for Christian nationalism and support for the Republican Party and President Donald Trump in particular. “I think the threat is (to) our democracy…
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Send them to hell then
Being a Christian (ie, believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ) is wholly incompatible with Christian Nationalism. You cannot be a Christian and a Christian Nationalist at the same time. One cancels the other out.
You cannot be a Christian and a Christian Nationalist at the same time.
There appears to be ample empirical evidence to the contrary.
believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ
Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
~ Matthew 10:34-39
Are we cherry picking verses like Christian Nationalists do? Is that the game? Ok.
Matthew 25:41-45: Jesus said “‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons. For I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me a drink. I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. … Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’ And [I] will answer, ‘… when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’”
James 2:1-4: “… How can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? … If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, ‘You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor’—well, doesn’t this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives?”
This can be done almost indefinitely. The broad brush of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth boils down to 1: Love God, 2: Love thy fellow man. This is plain to see, even to a hardcore atheist like me. If you look at the new testament as a collection of stories and teachings, and not as law, this message becomes pretty obvious fairly quickly.
i wonder how a christian nationalist would explain what it means to be christian
Just like Christians have always explained it.
The U.S. is 66% Christian, so I guess roughly half of them are Christian Nationalists. I wonder if some denominations are more/less likely to be part of that group. Like, 22% of Americans are Catholic. Are they split down the middle too?
