“The problem with Christian nationalism is not that some Christians are taking a biblical idea too seriously, but that they are confusing America with Israel under the old covenant. From a biblical perspective, it’s actually heretical. It confuses the law with the gospel.”
Heretic at West-Cal
Religion as the guiding force for every nation is an inescapable category. We know this because the laws of a nation always descend from and are reflective of some ultimate faith expression. Laws give a nation and its people an “oughtness.” That “oughtness” comes from somewhere and that somewhere is either demon fallen man as God (Legal Positivism) or comes from demon Allah as God (Sharia) or the Jewish demon God as God (Talmud), etc. etc. etc. So, inasmuch as laws are the residual manifestation of some religion in that much the laws of all nations reflect the religious commitment of the nation that crafts and adopts those laws and so declares that nations are hopelessly religious.
So when Heretic Horton says that it is impossible for a Nation to be Christian he is at the same time insisting that all nations must serve some other God or god concept besides the God of the Bible.
The man is at best an idiot and at worst a heretic. He has no business getting within 100 yards of a Seminary lectern or a Church pulpit. His Christianity is damnable stuff.
Amen, Bret. Fight on.