Just to be clear here, I do not hold that the civil Government has jurisdictional authority over the Church but this is not because law enforced by the State is not valid in the Church realm, but rather it is because the Church is as a foreign embassy situated in a host country. Host country laws do not apply to foreign embassy because it lies beyond their jurisdictional authority.
II.) “Experience over the last decade had made evident that there are two options: Christian nationalism or pagan nationalism. The totality of national action will be either Christian, and thus ordered to the complete good, or pagan — ordered to the celebration of degeneracy, child sacrifice (abortion), mental illness, and idolatry. Neutrality, even if it were real for a time, will never hold, because man by his nature infuses his transcendent concerns into his way of life and into the place of that life. The pagan nationalist rejection of neutrality is correct in principle, and Christians ought to abandon their foolish commitment to neutrality, contestability, and viewpoint diversity. In their place, Christians should assert the godly direction for this natural principle, namely, Christian nationalism. Neutral World political theology is simply irrelevant to our new world; it is obsolete. And it did little but encourage people to invest sentiment in what would ultimately turn on them and their children. It instilled patterns of thought that ill-prepared Christians to confront what was coming. It is now a political theology for the historian, not for the theologian or political theorist.”
Hats off to Dr. Wolfe on this observation!
