“Championing Christian Nationalism is not the same as recognizing that for most of American history many Americans would have thought of their country as a Christian nation. Paul Marshall helpfully distinguishes between religious nationalism and religion-infused politics. Religious nationalism refers to a movement or ideology “promoting the interests of a particular nation, a group of people who believe they have a shared historical, cultural, lingual, or religious heritage, and commonly wish to have a state that expresses that heritage.” This is not the same as asserting that religion has been a significant shaping force in a country’s history, nor is it the same as arguing for key political principles on religious grounds. Religious nationalism, by contrast, usually calls for the state to protect the religious interests of one group, while marginalizing or suppressing other groups. “In so doing,” Marshall explains, “it treats the members of the dominant religion and/or language, ethnicity, and culture as the core citizens and others as second class.”
Kevin De Young
6 Questions for Christian Nationalists
1.) De Young opens the article saying there is no agreed on definition of Christian Nationalism and now here he is pushing his (Paul Miller’s) definition of Christian Nationalism on people as if we have to accept his definition of Christian Nationalism (Religious Nationalism) as being THE definition of Christian Nationalism we have to work with.
2.) Despite that, I’d be glad to accept this definition of Christian Nationalism;
“Religious nationalism, by contrast, usually calls for the state to protect the religious interests of one group, while marginalizing or suppressing other groups. “In so doing,” Marshall explains, “it treats the members of the dominant religion and/or language, ethnicity, and culture as the core citizens and others as second class.”
Non Christians in the US should be treated as second class, just as, during this particular period, people of non-European descent should be treated as second class citizens. If we don’t prioritize our White Christian people at this point white christian people will go into abeyance.
“(4) Increasingly, the loudest voices arguing for Christian Nationalism are marked by juvenile insults steeped in online jargon from the dissident right. What’s more, some of these proponents traffic openly in racist ideology, antisemitism, and Neo-Nazi sympathies. The most strident Christian Nationalism proponents on social media are often a potent combination of oafery and demagoguery.”
Kevin De Young
6 Questions for Christian Nationalists
This is the standard fare from those losing the argument. It boils down to “our enemies are meanies who are not as educated and refined as we are and who don’t know their place.” The accusations of “racism” and “antisemitism” are accusations that tell us more about the accusers than it does about those being accused. Honestly, this kind of potent combination of oafery and demagoguery we see coming from De Young in the paragraph above is hardly worthy of our time and demonstrates how weak his position really is. He has been reduced to name calling and absurd pejoratives.
