Gerhard Kittle & Christian Nations … A Biblical/Lexical Argument

When the term “ἔθνη” is used in the sense of Gentiles, it is often use with no sense of plurality of nations. The word is used non-sociologically to describe all the individuals who do no belong to the chosen people. But God is King of all the nations (Jer. 10:7; cf. Rev. 15:3). The divine order of the table of nations (Gen. 10) is in accord with this fact. From the first patriarchs there does not descend a single humanity, but a group of nations divided according to clans and differing language, custom, and situation The attempt to resist this in Gen. 11 has its origin in human pride. God intervene to re-establish the order imposed by Him. Similarly, in Dt. 32:8 the division of the world into nations is a divine order and not a punishment for human sin: ‘When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance, their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number (of the sons of God).’

Gerhard Kittle
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
9 TDNT, vol. 2, Kittle, 367.

“Note the interpretive framework that the TDNT makes here with regard to Gen. 10 and 11. He assumes that the division of nations in Gen 10 was God’s plan, and that the world existed in this state for a time. But then men came together in rebellion against this state to form the tower of Babel. God’s act to separate the nations at Babel was therefore, according to Kittle, to restore humanity to their previous state as recorded in Gen 10, separated according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

Hence, ethno-nationalism is NOT a sin.

But it IS a tautology.”

Rev. Michael Shover

Over and over again it has been demonstrated that nations existing as decided peoples operating together in a political and cultural atmosphere is the will of God for people(s). When coupling this with the truth that God intends for the nations to be disciple, and with the reality that we see in Revelation that they were indeed discipled unto Christ, we have to insist that the nationalism that is required in Scripture must be coupled with the adjective “Christian.” All nations should be Christian nations — and will be Christian nations — and because of that they all will be practicing one form or another of Christian Nationalism.

Now, we can discuss what Christian Nationalism should look like and there are sundry views on that (I have my own and it does not include top down rule) but it can not be denied that Christian Nations having a Christian Nationalism as their governance is the only and singular Christian position. Any other view is … “non-Christian.”

Abrahamic Covenant; The Promise Of Being A Blessing To The Nations

12 Now the Lord had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

As we continue to consider Genesis 12:1-3, what is called the Abrahamic Covenant, we want to review where we were at last week.

We said that last week there are three promises here

1.) Promise to be a Great Nation
2.) Promise of a Particular Land
3.) Promise of Blessings upon the Nations

We will later see in Genesis 15 that these promises are irrevocable. There in Gen. 15 we find a covenant cutting ceremony. Normally, in Ancient East culture when important agreements are made the parties entering into the covenant would bind their agreement by cutting beasts in half and walking together between the beasts half. This was to communicate the idea of; “May it be done unto me what has been done to these beasts should I break this agreement we have made.” However, when God makes covenant w/ Abraham God takes the penalty of covenant breaking on Himself alone as God puts Abraham to sleep and walks Himself alone through the halves of the cut beasts (Gen. 15:17). This communicates that these promises of God are dependent upon the eternal character of God alone. These promises will come to pass because God is faithful to His promises.

#1 Last week we considered that God did keep His promises to Abraham. Abraham did become a great nation. Abraham was given a particular Land. Abraham would become a blessing upon the nations. We also learned last week that this promise had a telescopic effect. God’s covenant promise to Abraham expanded further and were clarified a given more definition with covenant Promises given to Moses, given to David.

However, we also said that consistent with NT Revelation we learned that these covenant promises were only ever penultimately to Israel. We see that later these covenant promises find their ultimate and final fulfillment in Jesus Christ and His Church.

We said last week that the promise of a Great Nation was ultimately fulfilled in Christ and His Church. We looked at Galatians 3 where Paul is writing to both Jew and Gentile believers. There Paul says;

26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. … 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Elsewhere in the NT we learn consistent with the promise to Abraham that his descendants will be as the stars in the sky and the sand on the beach that there was in heaven a number so great that no man could number (Rev. 7:9). The promise to Abraham to be a Great Nation was only about Israel penultimately. Ultimately it was about Christ and the Church.

#2 Last week we talked about the Land and again said that the land promise was only penultimately about Israel. Israel did inherit a particular land but that wasn’t what the promise was about. Ultimately, the promise is about Christ and the Church inheriting the Earth. We saw from Scripture how it was always God’s plan that the nations are Christ’s inheritance (Psalm 2)

The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.

Now combine this with Christ’s promise that the Meek (that is God’s people) shall inherit the earth and it is clear that the promise to Abraham about land was ultimately about Christ and the Church.

So, together we learned that all these promises to Abraham are about Jesus the Christ. He is the fulfillment … the ultimate destination of all these promises. This is said explicitly in Gal. 3:16

 16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. 

This was way by review and reinforcement. The rest of the time today we want to spend looking at the promise to Abraham 12:3 that;

3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

We have only to look at Scripture to see that curse part certainly had a penultimate fulfillment. Egypt cursed Israel and Egypt was cursed. The book of Esther likewise is a book where we see that those who cursed Israel were cursed. Likewise in the book of Daniel we see those who cursed Daniel ended up being tossed to the Lions. Likewise in the NT we see Christ promising that those who cursed Him would be judged – a promise kept with His judgment coming in AD 70.

“They will demolish you-you and the children within your walls-and they will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” (Luke 19:44)

And their response eventually was, “His blood be on us, and on our children.” (Mt. 27:25).
So, the cursing part is clear – penultimately, those who cursed Israel were cursed. And ultimately the cursing is clear … those who cursed Jesus were cursed and continue to be cursed.

The Blessing part “I will bless those who bless you,” was a singular failure of Israel. God called Israel to be a light to the nations and instead of Israel being a light to the nations …a blessing to those who blessed them Israel did not walk as a light to the nations. Instead they became insular and insisted that they were alone special because God had chosen them.

God had conferred on Israel as a whole people the role of being a priesthood people in the midst of the nations. As the people of God, they as a whole had the historical task of bringing the knowledge of God to the nations, and so being a blessing to the nations.

“The Abrahamic task of being a blessing to the nations also put them in the role of the priests in the midst of the nations.” Christopher Wright (The Mission of God)

Israel was not a blessing to the nations because it was too busy claiming exclusivity for themselves. The one large exception to this is the book of Jonah and Jonah has to be coerced into be a blessing to the Ninevites.

But remember … God’s covenant with Abraham was irrevocable. God’s promise to bless the Nations would be fulfilled. And that promise is fulfilled through the promised Christ. Jesus is God’s blessing on the nations through Israel. Because of Christ it is true that all the nations are blessed. The global blessing promised in Gen. 12:3 comes to pass as Christ brings the Gentiles in to the new and better covenant – new and better because all that was promised as been fulfilled.

Now we need to pause here before pushing on and understand that because in blessing Christ we are blessed it is no longer the case that we are required to bless Israel. There is no blessing of God that remains on Nations if they bless Israel. And no cursings of God that remain on Nations if they curse Israel. I bring this out because, as I noted last week we are trying to go back to the old covenant shadows in saying that we have to bless Israel.

In 1967 there was an updated version of the C. I. Scofield Dispie Bible released. One of its most significant updates was a note on Genesis 12:1-4 where the Holocaust (TM) was introduced into the notes. The new note clarified that God’s promise to Abraham- “I will curse those who curse you” – it read as such;

“A warning literally fulfilled in the history of Israel’s persecutions. It has invariably literally fulfilled in the history of Israel’s persecutions. It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Bagel – well with those who have protected him. For a people who commit the sin of Antisemitism brings inevitable judgment.”

Mega church pastor Rev. John Hagee, on this point, as gone so far as to blame American decline on our insufficient support for Israel and he uses this Gen. 12 passage to sustain his claim. America is declining because we haven’t blessed Israel enough.

Also, this brushed up against the Judeo-Christianity issue. We only have that hyphenated monster because we think that somehow pagan Israel and its religion has to be married to the Christian faith. Hardly a more abominable phrase exists than this one that is born of the need to bless current Israel.

Pivoting, we remember the passages teaches that God will bless those who bless Christ and so
we might well ask, how can we bless Christ today that we might continue to be blessed and the answer to that is found in walking in obedience out of gratitude for being included in the covenant. If we want the continued blessings of Christ we become champions for His cause… and we seek to find the blessing of God in being persecuted for His name’s sake. We understand that with God as our Father all things come in to our lives, by the Father’s hand as a blessing of God who loves us for the sake of Jesus Christ.

On this issue of the intent of God to bless the nations we find it everywhere spoken of in the NT. The message of the NT is that which was once mystery is now made known… and that mystery now exposed is that God intends to call all the nations into the Abrahamic covenant fulfilled in Christ.

As the resurrected King the last words Jesus gives His disciples

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” (Mt. 28:19) The Church is now God’s means to bless the nations.

The Book of Acts is the story of God blessing the nations. Paul’s Missionary journeys and intent at the end of his life to go to Spain bespeaks God’s ongoing intent to bless the nations.

The Apostle Paul, in Romans 15:9-12 , cites several Old Testament passages to affirm that the Gentiles’ acknowledgment of God was always part of the divine plan: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.” Paul sees his mission to the Gentiles as a fulfillment of these ancient promises to Abraham.

The book of Revelation teaches that God’s intent to bless the nations through the SEED of Abraham comes to full expression. Over the centuries Christ collects His Church so that in Revelation 7 we see the fulfillment of Isaiah 2. In Isaiah 2 it is promised that the nations will stream to the mountain of the Lord

Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
3 Many people shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

And in Revelation 7 we see that streaming taking place

“After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb… And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!'”

And then in Rev. 21 and 22 we see the Nations flowing in to the new Jerusalem. We read that
24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.

Now remember what we said at the beginning. The promises of God are irrevocable and inevitable. God promised to make a great Nation out of Abraham and when we get to the end of the singular Bible Narrative we see that God made a great Nation out of the one to whom the promise was ultimately given … to Christ. God has kept His promise that Abraham’s seed was as the stars of the sky and the sand on the sea shore. We are Abraham’s inheritance, not some retro-fitted Israel.

And we have been caught up in this kept promise. God, who is rich in mercy made a promise to Abraham that was fulfilled in Christ and the Church. It is believers in Christ who are true children of Abraham (Romans 4:16-17), and not physical Israel. As Zechariah noted in his prophecy of the coming of Christ “God hath remembered His promise to Abraham” thus showing the continuity of the one promise from Abraham to Christ and then from Christ to His people.

Look … it is why we teach the children to sing.. “Father Abraham had many sons… many sons had Father Abraham. I am one of them and so are you. So lets all praise the Lord.” The seed of Abraham is Christ and His Church and no other seed counts in terms of God’s covenant promises.

Now, what does this teach us about our God

1.) God is faithful to His promises. He did not forget His promises to Abraham and He will not forget His promises to us.

2.) God was so faithful to His promise that He who was very God of very God took upon Himself the covenant curses of Gen. 15 in our place for our failures in keeping covenant. The covenant was cut. God alone passed through the covenant parts. God takes the promised punishment for the covenant not being kept. Just as He walked through the covenant pieces Himself so He bore the penalty of our breaking of the covenant and that on the Cross. God makes promises alone and God keeps promises alone. We are the beneficiaries of God’s incredible covenant keeping character.

3.) This in turn drives in us the ability to trust God…. to trust Him when it is beyond our capacity to trust. God will be true to His promises to be with us always … He will be true to His promises to never leave us or forsake us … He is true to His promises to ever live to intercede for us at the right hand of the father … He is true to His promises to bless us and our generations. And God will be true at the time when we must trust Him the most … the time of our death. God can be trusted. God’s nature is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

4.) All of this teaches us that that the foundation of our trust is Redemption by Faith.

Romans 4:3 notes that Abram

“believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

This teaches us again that believers receive the promise of Abraham as fulfilled in Christ through faith alone in the God-Man alone. We enter into the covenant by being covered in the imputed righteousness of Christ alone as Christ alone is the one who kept the requirements of God’s covenantal law and who paid the covenantal penalty for our breaking of the covenantal law. We are in covenant with God because we are in Christ our covenant keeper.

But not only are we blessed we continue to be a blessing. As parents we seek to be a blessing to our seed that they too may be sons of Abraham. As Christ’s people we seek to be a blessing to those who don’t know Christ or know Him in a strange way by being Heralds and champions of His cause. To our enemies we seek to be a blessing by praying that God would open their eyes to God’s wrath that they might flee to Christ alone for safety and redemption.

This irrevocable blessing of God continues today through Christ as Christ continues to build His church so that when He returns He finds that the nations of the world have become the nations of God and His Christ.

A Few Words About Dispensationalism’s Origin & Influence

The stew that was Dispensationalism not only arose from the odd teachings of Edward Irving and John Nelson Darby as systematized by Scofield, Chafer, Ryrie, Pentecost, and others, it also folded into itself revivalism, common sense realism, Keswick and Holiness teaching, and Pentecostalism. Dispensationalism also found contributions from prominent Lutherans (Seiss), Reformed (Chafer, D. G. Barnhouse), many Baptists (Vance Havner), and of course the Brethren movement from which it arose. These various strains often jostled with one another but in the end they all adopted one variant strain or another of Dispensationalism. Indeed, even yet today the theology of Dispensationalism finds influences in the Reformed world as more than a few have argued that R2K is merely another variant of Dispensationalism. R2K certainly bears the mark of retreatism that was characteristic of Dispensationalism, as well as a Gnostic dividing the world into “worldly” (R2K’s common) and Spiritual.

What few people know is that D. L. Moody used Dispensationalism as a tool to reunite a fractured nation after the War of Northern Aggression. Moody, who was hardly one to be overly concerned with theological systematization, used Dispensationalism as a tool for sectional reconciliation arguing that has Jesus was coming back at any moment previous disagreements between warring Christians should be put aside and the business of saving souls should unite us all.

In many respects then Dispensationalism has been the religious glue that kept America together since Reconstruction ended. It also served as one of the means by which we have been enslaved by Israel. Dispensationalism so emphasized the ongoing integrity and necessity of Israel that all of World History was changed because of Dispensationalism’s errant premise that Israel remained God’s earthly chosen people and that all Christians were duty bound to bless Israel upon pain of divine retribution.

More Clergy Being Dumb … This Time Rev. Joseph Spurgeon

“These men who are trying to refute pastor Jerry Dorris are playing themselves and showing their foolishness. The irony of these posts is that in their scheme 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska is the actual ‘invader’ as a legal immigrant from the Ukraine and Decarlos Brown, Jr. is their American neighbor.

I am for ICE doing their job, our civil government protecting the border and even restricting legal immigration so that our nation can be preserved. But I’m also for treating individuals with respect and dignity as neighbors by proximity.

These men have lost the plot and are not as the Christians they profess to be.”

Rev. Joseph Spurgeon

1.) This began with Rev. Dorris writing a post saying he was politically against illegal immigration but that did not mean he would refuse to treat illegals as his neighbor. Rev. Dorris was clearly invoking the idea, from the Bible, of being a “good Samaritan.” Rev. Dorris was suggesting that all Christians must treat all illegals as neighbors.

2.) More than a few people (including myself) took exception to that, insisting that Rev. Dorris was making the parable of the Good Samaritan walk on all fours.

3.) Nobody has tried to refute Rev. Dorris as if he has not yet been refuted. Rev. Dorris has been refuted in spades.

4.) The irony that Rev. Spurgeon sees is not ironic in the least. He should know by now that the complaint that nearly all those involved have is not the immigration of white Christians into the nation, such as Zarutska. (She was Eastern Orthodox of some stripe.) The complaint is against bringing in those who are from, as the President has said, “third world fecal holes.”

** – Speaking only for myself, I think it unwise at this point to allow for any immigration at all. We need a period of adjustment.

5.) Decarlos Brown, and numerous other minorities in our country was a neighbor the same way that Ted Bundy or one of the Manson family members would be a neighbor if they moved next door.

6.) What Rev. Spurgeon (and Rev. Doriss) are doing to the parable of the Good Samaritan is they are replacing the poor chap in the parable who was beaten and robbed by the assailants for the assailants themselves who were beaten up because they fell down seeking to flee from the scene of the crime they committed. In that kind of Parable, Jesus would have expected the Good Samaritan to call the authorities to arrest those who had done the robbing.

7.) In the parable of the Good Samaritan it is clear that the chap robbed by the villains was the victim. What Pastors Dorris and Spurgeon are doing is turning the Robbers and Malefactors who did the beating in the Good Samaritan into the victim. In Pastors Dorris and Spurgeon’s world the third world equatorial immigrants who are here and who are bilking the system, who are essentially committing theft on a mass scale, and who are squandering our children’s inheritance by their massive fraud are the ones who are the victims and who need to have all the love and affection given to the genuine victim in the parable of the Good Samaritan. They have inverted the whole meaning of the parable. They have turned the parable of the Good Samaritan into one only a bleeding heart Arminian/Liberal could appreciate.

8.) In doing so Pastors Spurgeon and Dorris are ignoring the Scriptures that teach that one of God’s judgments against His disobedient people is to be cursed with being flooded with the Stranger and the Alien. When Pastors Spurgeon and Dorris write as they do people hear them say that “Christians should embrace God’s curse.” Quite to the contrary Christians who love God and their people will do all they can to not be visited with the curse. Pastors should not push principles (such as treating invaders as “neighbors”) that fault people for not wanting to be under God’s curse and for not wanting to have to live in their land where they are the tail and the stranger and alien is the head. (See Deut. 28:15f)

9.) Nobody, that I have seen in this conversation has denied the necessity of speaking the Gospel to the stranger and the alien while they are here. Nobody has insisted, as far as I can see, that the stranger and the alien are not image bearers of God. But the fact that the alien and the stranger need the Gospel and the fact that they are image bearers of God does not mean that we should become comfortable with the presence of the alien and the stranger in our midst. In point of fact, we should not.

10.) Rev. Spurgeon has been slow witted ever since I came across the good Rev. years ago. We make allowances for such people. However, it is those who are advocating for the kinds of things that Rev. Spurgeon is advocating for who have lost the plot and are not the Christian he professes to be.

11.) What Spurgeon and many like him have missed is that Genocide of the white Christian in the West is being attempted. Immigrants from third world fecal holes are the bombs that are being used in order to replace us. When one is in war one typically does not go out of their way to treat the bomb that is intended to wipe them out as a neighbor.

12.) Pastors like Dorris and Spurgeon are turning the Christian faith into a suicide cult.

American Empire

Tucker Carlson made a point in his monologue preceding his conversation with Meagan Kelly that with the American orchestrated Venezuela coup we are now officially an “Empire.” Tucker complimented Trump for being honest about that given Trump’s statement about seizing the oil.

My only beef here with Carlson is that he’s a little late to the party in announcing that the US is now an Empire. The US has been an Empire since 1865 with Lincoln’s victory over the South. That War changed these united States into THE United States and re-created America as Empire. So, the first turn to Empire in our history was internal. We went from being a Republic to being an Empire. The truth of that was seen in the Empirical Reconstruction brought upon the South and its Institutions. The South were the first people dragged into the Humanist Yankee Empire and forced to conform to the ways of the Empire. What the Constitution created as a “Nation of Nations,” was now transformed, via the work of Lincoln, into a unitarian Nation State.

However, our role as Empire did not stop with the Civil War and Reconstruction. Very shortly thereafter our Empire broke outside the bonds of territorial and continental USA. In 1898 we seized Cuba from the Spaniards. In that settlement we also took the Philippines but they objected and so between 1899-1902 we brought war to those islands before they acquiesced to US Empire.

From there, with the two World Wars the US made was to expand Empire. Now, the kind of Empire that was being built via WW I and WW II was not your typical Empire of land seizure and overt control but we were an Empire every bit as the Brits had been before they lost their Empire in WW II. The Empire we built in the first half of the 20th century was an Economic Empire. This is especially seen for folks who know anything about the Bretton Woods agreement which tied the world’s economy to the US Dollar. Americans like to think of how noble the US was in “freeing Europe,” during those conflicts but lives lost in battle is the cost paid for building Empire and Economically, after part II of the World War finished in 1945 we were the world’s Emperor along with the Soviet Union. And many wonder if the Soviet Union only existed at our behest in order to only give the appearance that we were being challenged so that the citizenry here and abroad in the “Free West,” would be frightened into accepting the US as Empire. There are more than a few who will argue that US and Soviet contretemps was all part of the game to manage the world.

Returning to the theme, Carlson’s observation that we are now explicitly an Empire comes about 160 years too late. Carlson may well argue that the mask has finally come off with Trump’s seizure of Venezuela and with Trump’s intimidating Greenland but for those with eyes to see that the US is Empire is very very old news.

Now, one of the perks of being Empire is that the Empire makes the peace. This is seen in history with the Pax Romana and the Pax Britannica. When both Rome and later Brittain stood astride the world each made the Peace. Sometimes that peace was made by sending troops across their far flung Empire to force peace and sometimes that peace was made by dictating the terms in any regional squabble. Empires become the World’s Sheriff, or as it is said today, “The Global Cop.” And that is what we are seeing with the Trump administration. Trump boasts about how many wars he has settled. That is what Empires do. You can bet the farm that the Empire is giving incentives that only Empires can give in order for these wars to be settled.

Of course Empires always fall. Rome did. Britain did. The Ottoman Empire did. The Austro-Hungarian Empire did. What is interesting is that when Empire’s fall it is often because they become over-extended and can’t meet all their responsibilities. Eventually, some aspiring Patriot who doesn’t want to live under Empire notices the weakness, rallies his people, and attacks the Empire. Before that though is the matter of the weakness that sets in. Often that weakness comes as a crisis of confidence on the part of the Empire. Rome’s unwillingness and inability to repulse a comparative handful of Goths is one example. The USSR’s inability to put down the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan is another. This almost happened to America’s Empire under the Carter administration in the late 1970s as a handful of students in Teheran pushed the US Empire to the brink.

Another thing that happens with the fall of Empires is a complete loss of the faith that built the Empire. Now, plenty of people during the existence of Empire see through the faith charade that keeps the Empire afloat. However, once Empire’s fall, they fall because there are no longer enough true believers in the old gods. We are seeing that happen now in the American Empire. Even as Trump tries to rebuild the American Empire there are plenty of people who see that the faith in the God of Liberalism can’t be sustained by the adopting and tolerating of all the competing faith systems that must be adopted and tolerated if a Liberalism turned multiculturalism is to work in keeping the American Empire stitched together.

Another thing that should be noted in this overview is something that Carlson brought out, and that is Empires die when there is no longer any core people left who built the Empire. Carlson used the example of modern London where one must be diligent in seeking to find a Brit in London. Carlson then pivoted to the next obvious example of the US that has been reduced from 88% white in 1970 to 63% white in 2025. Many of our large cities find the numbers even more drastically skewed. Empires cannot last if those who built the Empire do not last.

So … the mask is off and we are officially Empire. This means more wars, which means more of your sons – and in this egalitarian age; daughters – die in order to keep the Empire being the Empire. It means a increased bureaucratic behemoth. In our age it means an increase of technocratic innovation to keep the Empire functioning as well-oiled as it can. It means a lot of bad things that many of us have been screaming about for a very long time. For Christians, it means an increasing abandonment of our undoubted catholic Christian faith. Empires, are, by definition, polyglot. Polyglot entities require a polyglot faith and Christianity is not a faith that can allow other faiths to co-exist with it. At least Christianity of the purest content can’t.

Benjamin Franklin is reported to have told a woman who asked him, after the Constitutional Convention had done its work in forming a Government, what kind of Government had the Founding Fathers formed and his response to the woman was, “A Republic … if you can keep it.” We lost that Republic long ago and if Tucker is correct we have now moved into the open and unapologetic “Empire phase.”

I’m not going to like it.