The tenets of ethno-nationalism do not follow from Christian premises, not at all, and I for one am glad about the clarity they seem to have on that point at least.
Ethno-nationalism is not a subset of Christian nationalism. But can a genuine Christian embrace the tenets of ethno-nationalism? Sure, but only in the way that a Christian can commit adultery with his neighbor’s wife. That can happen too.
So what are we doing here in Moscow? We are keeping the Christian in Christian nationalism.
Doug Wilson
On Suffering Fools Gladly
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1.) Ethno-Nationalism only fails to follow the tenets of Christian premises if one believes that “Honor thy Father & Mother” is not a Christian premise.
2.) Only someone smitten with the bug of multiculturalism could possibly be so jejune so as to argue that ethno-Nationalism is akin to adultery.
3.) Ethno-nationalism is a phrase that is a redundancy since all true nationalism in order to be nationalism must have an ethnic core. The only exception to this would be Doug’s civic or propositional nationalism which historically is nationalism the way that meat manufactured in a lab can be considered to be a 3-pound porterhouse on the grill.
4.) Can someone deny that all nationalism in order to be nationalism has to be ethnonationalism? Sure, the same way that someone born with an extra chromosome can still be considered human. That can happen also.
5.) So what are they doing there in Moscow? They are keeping the multi in multi-culturalism.
6.) So what are they doing there in Moscow? They are contributing to the death of both the Church in America and the death of a nation in as much as they are supporting the expansion of the Globalist vision.
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Wilson is trying to impose his civ-nat presuppositions on the biblical definition of the word nation. In the Bible, nation derives from the Greek word ethnos which can be translated “the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.” https://www.wordnik.com/words/ethnos
The Latin roots of nation convey a similar idea with respect to ancestry. One is naci, which means “to be born.” The other is nationem, which the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed. 1989) defines as “breed, stock., race, nation.”
Nationalism, as the Bible conceives it, involves blood and lineage, not just culture and abstract ideals.
Hello Roland;
You are exactly correct. Wilson is a smart man and being a smart man he knows this. His knowing this in turn can only mean that Wilson is attempting a grift … the man is a deceiver.