A reading list for Memorial Day

A reading list for Memorial Day. Read these 10 books and you’ll never celebrate Memorial day again in quite the same way.

10.) Wilson’s War — Jim Powell
9.) FDR goes to War — Burton Folsom
8.) Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government — M. Stanton Evans
7.) Lincoln the Man — Edgar Masters
6.) Lincoln’s Little War: How His Carefully Crafted Plans Went Astray — Webb Garrison
5.) Naked Capitalist — W. Cleon Skousen
4.) Freedom Betrayed — Herbert Hoover
3.) Blacklisted by History — M. Stanton Evans
2.) War is a Racket — Smedley Butler
1.) Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution — Anthony C. Sutton

Bonus books

1.) Freedom Betrayed — Herbert Hoover
2.) Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War — Pat Buchanan
3.) War is a Racket — Gen. Smedley Butler
4.) Hidden History; The Secret Origins of WW I — MacGregor and Docherty
5.) Prolonging the Agony;  How  the  Anglo-American  Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years — MacGregor & Docherty

On This Day; Potpourri of Quotes and Insights Over The Years From the Pastor’s Study

Over the years I have made the habit to place significant notes from my reading or lecture listening online on social media for other people to profit from what I am learning. I’ve seldom posted those notes here on Iron Ink. However, I’m going to start a feature where I collect my daily posts from over the years and place them here. In a year’s time, I will have collected all my social media posts and notes so that they are here for me to access.

These will be random and unconnected as my study is quite varied over the course of a day.

So, here in this first entry for; “On This Day”

I.) On This Day in 2019

A.) “White women are displayed with non-white men in advertisements not to sell items but as a tactic of psychological warfare against our civilization. Very rarely anymore are white men portrayed in a favorable light, they are often the overweight, goofy, clumsy, half-wit that relies on women and non-whites to save the day. From films to television to advertisements, this is an increasingly common anti-white canard.”

R. Houck
Online Article

The War Against Whites In Advertising

B.) Among whites in 1958, only 4% approved interracial marriages between whites and blacks; in 2007, 75% of whites reported they approve of such unions

In light of this, how can I not conclude that social engineering works?

Also, in 1958 that 4% was likely comprised only of Atheists, and Unitarians, and Talmudists.II.) On This Day in 2018

A.) “Since one cannot help everyone one has to be concerned with those who by reason of place, time, or circumstances, are by some chance more tightly bound to you.”

Augustine
Christian Doctrine, Book 1, ch. 28
B.) In 2011 the MLK Memorial in DC was unveiled. In 2017 statues of Confederate veterans were being taken down.
This wasn’t a coincidence. Only one narrative can be in the ascendancy.
  • C.) “Although defeated, they left us traditions of faith in God, honor, chivalry, and respect for womanhood; they left us a passionate belief in freedom for the individual. Our Confederate ancestors bequeathed to us a military tradition of valor, patriotism, devotion to duty, and a spirit of self-sacrifice. When our nation no longer admires and pays tribute to these traditions, we will no longer remain a free nation. “ 

    Sons of Confederate Veterans, New Members Initiation

    III.) On This Day 2017

    A.) “Because we believe that God intends to vindicate His Divine Word and to make all nations honor it … we confidently expect that the world will yet do justice to Southern Slaveholders.”

    R. L. Dabney

    B.) “I do not forget, and I trust that I do not undervalue, the missionary work of England and our own land, in that benighted continent. But I believe that the number of negroes Christianized and civilized at the South, through the system of slavery, exceeds the product of those missionary labors, in a proportion of thousands to one. And thus the wisdom and goodness of God are vindicated in the sanction which his Word has given, and the sentence originally pronounced on Canaan as a curse has been converted into a blessing.”

    John Henry Hopkins
    Bishop of Vermont

    C.) Reading an essay about how the victory of Bolshevism in WW II was supported by Barthian theology and how said victory Christianized the idea of International Cosmopolitanism.

    D.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fh6LtBYmiI

    IV.) On This Day 2016

    Touching Trump

    A.) I wish someone would make for me the Biblical case of voting for our Political Covenant head a man who has bragged about his wenching (womanizing), a man who has strip joints in his casinos, a man who has promised that torture needs to be used against those who deserve it, a man who has bragged about the size of his Johnson on National television in a Republican debate, a man who has said “I’ve never asked God for forgiveness,” a man who would use eminent domain to evict people from their property the way we use toothpaste, a man who used God and Christianity as a political prop …

    You Trump voters are like those Hebrews in Jeremiah’s day who thought that going down to Egypt to Pharaoh would deliver you from Babylon.

    B.) I very much get the allure of Trump. We’ve been awaiting a miracle a long while and it’s hard not to see this populist surge in the States and Europe as the strong hand of Providence. But until Trump sees the sign of the Cross on the sun, he’s no Constantine. And until he becomes the most humble of men and speaks the commands of God in Faith, he’s no Moses. At best he may prove a Cyrus, a Nebuchadnezzar, or an Alexander the Great. And that would be a tremendous gift in itself.

    But inasmuch as the law of kin-rule (Deut. 17:15) is first a call to elect only physical kin over us, Deuteronomy 1:13 elaborates that those kinsmen-candidates whom we would exalt must also be ‘wise, understanding, and knowledgeable in the Law of God, and thus in the Christian Faith. This concept is all the more reinforced in the NT as we are admonished that our “overseers are to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled,” etc. (1 Tim. 3:10) and that we shall appoint no man hastily lest we partake of his sin (1 Tim. 5:22).

    Trump looks like he has the presidency in the bag, and I confess that I see implied in that that God has not condemned us utterly to destruction. But I’m nonetheless convicted that His Word wards me against voting for the man myself. Strange as that is.

    I suppose my position is similar to that of John Knox in regard to Queen Elizabeth: while he might have appreciated her in the sense that her Protestant reign was a great relief, he nonetheless denied that she was qualified to rule.

    C.) Put bluntly, given the dynamics of our rapidly changing culture, I believe it will be increasingly difficult to be a good Christian and a good American. It is far more important to me to preserve the faith than to preserve liberal democracy and the American order. Ideally, there should not be a contradiction, but again, the realities of post-Christian America challenge our outdated ideals.

    Rod Dreher

    First Things

    D.)Memorial Day … perhaps one of the Highest Holy Days of American Civil Religion.

    E.) “War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”

    Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

    Two Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

    F.)  “All American wars save the South’s War for Independence and the American war for Independence — Wars of defense of home and hearth — have been examples of ‘Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight.’ The fighting was often gallant and heroic. the courage exemplary and honorable, and the intent sold as noble and uplifting. Yet despite all that, our country’s wars shed the blood of hundreds of thousands of men for reasons that had precious little to do with our Nation’s liberty. In brief, good men died in order to support the chicanery of bad men’s desire for profit and glory.”

    S. Miles Deagle

    G.) “A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over…is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”

    G.K. ChestertonH.)

    “War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

    Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

    Two Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

    I.) “I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”

    Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

    Two Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

    J.) War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

    Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

    Two Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

    K.) At 11:02 am, 09 August, 1945, during morning mass, Nagasaki Christianity was boiled, evaporated and carbonized in a scorching radioactive fireball that exploded 500 meters above the cathedral. Ground Zero for the American A-Bomb was the persecuted, vibrant, surviving center of Japanese Christianity. Indeed Nagasaki, Japan was the epicenter of Asian Christianity.

    Since the Cathedral was the epicenter of the blast, most Nagasaki Christians did not survive. 6000 of them died instantly, including all who were at confession that morning. Of the 12,000 church members, 8,500 died as a direct result of the bomb. Three orders of nuns and a Christian girl’s school disappeared into black smoke or chunks of charred remains.
    What the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 200 years of persecution, destroy Japanese Christianity, American Christians did in 9 seconds. Even today those who are members of Christian churches in Japan represent a fraction of 1% of the population, and the average attendance at Christian worship services is 30.

A Few Facts About The Sainted Noble Savage

Fact — As a general rule, all captive males captured during internecine tribal warfare among American Indians were tortured for days until they died. Celebrations were planned around such events with entire villages gathered to watch and possibly participate in the ritual torture of captives.

Fact — The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice on a vast scale. Tens of thousands of people among their tribal enemies were ritually killed and turned into dinner. Solid evidence exists that this same etiquette was practiced by the Carib Indians, the Maya Indians, and the Inca Indians.

Fact — Land was “owned” collectively by a given tribe, but only as long as they controlled it through the killing of the other aboriginals who wandered onto their territory. Possession of land was 10/10ths of the law. Ownership thus was constantly in flux as one tribe drove out another.

Fact — The Sioux (or Lakota) claim that the Black Hills was stolen from them by the White man in the 1870’s. What the ignorant liberals don’t tell you is that the Sioux stole that land from the Blackfeet and the Arapahoe in the 1770s when they (Sioux) left Minnesota. In the same way, the Shawnee claim White people took Ohio and Indiana from them in the first decades of the 1800s. What you don’t know is that the Shawnee took it first from the Fox and the Sauk tribes. Just so the Comanche dispossessed the Apache from West Texas while the Apache chased away the Ute and Navaho in Southern New Mexico and Arizona. Just so the Assiniboine and the Nez Perce slaughtered the Shoshone in Montana and Idaho. Ownership of the land was a literal bloody mess.

Fact — When the first white men showed up in N. America in the 17th century there were at that time approximately 1 million Indians in America which averages out to 1 human being for every 3 square miles. Even the number of 1 million is disputed, some scholars arguing for a much lower number.

Fact — American Indians never owned the N. American land. They merely occupied it being largely a wandering nomadic people.

Fact — American Indians were what Thomas Jefferson referred to them as in the Declaration of Independence, to wit, “savages.” Most if not all the tribes of North America lived in a constant state of intermittent warfare among their neighboring Indian tribal “Brothers.” Starvation, raids for scarce food, and large-scale conflicts for revenge were commonplace.

Fact — American Indians glorified the values of violence and cruel warfare. Scalping and torture were a routine part of North American Indian culture as were burning their captives alive, slow disembowelment, and impalement through the anus. There was nothing noble about these savages.

A Discussion on Christian Nationalism w/ Perry & Whitehead

Perry and Whitehead define Christian nationalism as:

..a cultural framework—a collection of myths, traditions, symbols, narratives, and value systems—that idealizes and advocates a fusion of Christianity with American civic life … the ‘Christianity’ of Christian nationalism represents something more than religion. As we will show, it includes assumptions of nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity, along with divine sanction for authoritarian control and militarism. It is as ethnic and political as it is religious. (p. 10)

BLMc responds,

Let us consider this for a second.

Since Perry and Whitehead want to begin with cultural frameworks let us spend a little time first talking about culture and then how culture will always express itself nationalistically.

I would contend that culture is defined as the outward manifestation of a people’s inward belief. To make that even pithier, culture is theology externalized. Yet a third way to speak about this is that culture is the consequence of some theology poured over ethnicity. The constant in these definitions is that culture is inescapably tied to theology.

If that is true (and it is) the cultural frameworks will always and inescapably include a collection of myths, traditions, symbols, narratives, and value systems since those realities are downstream of theology. Those collections of myths, traditions, symbols, narratives, and value systems as a cultural framework will then always and inevitably be the result of some fusion with some religion becoming American civic life. The Christian Nationalist merely steps up to the microphone and insists that the inevitable fusion with religion that is going to occur — the fusion in question — be a fusion with Christianity as opposed to a fusion with some other religion. In other words, a Nation can’t exist apart from some religion creating its culture. The Nation itself, in terms of how it constitutes itself, is a living and breathing expression of religion. For Perry and Whitehead to imply that Christians shouldn’t desire a Christian Nationalism then is just a backdoor special pleading for some other kind of Nationalism that they favor.

The next step out from this is that what results in culture and theology being tied together, as they inescapably are, is always some kind of Nationalism. Even the Internationalist who says he hates Nationalism is advocating for Global Nationalism.

My point here is that Perry and Whitehead and Tim Keller and Russell Moore are one and all Nationalists. Their beef with Christian Nationalism is that it is not their version of Christian Nationalism. Their beef is that the Nationalism they are railing against is not the kind of Nationalism that they desire.

Perry and Whitehead and later Keller on steroids rails against nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity. Yet in all that railing all I hear is a plea on their part for a Nationalism that is alienist xenophilic, non-white supremacist, egalitarian, and sexually pluralistic. At least for Keller, he seems to think that this would be Christian nationalism at its best.


Next, where is the sin in some of these realities that Perry and Whitehead describe in their inquisition against Christian Nationalism? Where is the sin in abjuring multiculturalism in favor of the native? Is White Supremacy in lands settled and created by white people any more curious than Japanese Supremacy in the land that the Japanese ancestors settled and created? And as Scripture teaches patriarchy all Christian nations should have their social order structured around Christian patriarchy then patriarchy is a positive good. Finally, obviously, there is a great deal of horror in heternormativity. How could any Christian Nationalist ever desire that?

Perry and Whitehead start making it up when they suggest that Christian Nationalism is about authoritarian control and militarism. Remember, our Christian ancestors were the ones who created a divided government with checks and balances. That hardly sounds like authoritarian control. In terms of Militarism, we Christians were the ones who originally insisted that there should be no standing army and only a small navy.

Finally, as politics is downstream of theology and as theology creates culture as expressed by distinct peoples then of course Christian Nationalism is as ethnic and political as it is religious. So what?

When it is all said and done Perry and Whitehead are merely bitching that some people out there desire a different Nationalism as based on a different religion than they do. They want a Nationalism that is the exact opposite of what they are complaining about and as such they seek to criminalize the Christian Nationalism that makes them scream like Junior High girls seeing a mouse in the shower.

Article From Webzine Defends McAtee & Christian Nationalism

Since the Jericho March in December and the events of January 6th, “Christian nationalism” has become a bogeyman.  In the process, secular and Christian elites have fused indistinguishably and are working hand-in-glove to neuter Christianity as a public presence while simultaneously strangling the burgeoning nationalist movement in the crib.  The standard epithets—racist, nativist, white supremacist—are casually directed at white Christians yearning for nothing more than to live in the country of their grandparents.

A template has also been established. Rather than produce a robust biblical or theological analysis, an academic misconstrues and caricatures Christian nationalism, defining it as outside the parameters of historic orthodoxy.  Seeking accommodation with elites, celebrity pastors assume the efficacy of the given Politically Correct definitions and label any related viewpoints as heresy and a threat to the “moral witness” of the church. 

Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Edsall, citing Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry’s book Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States, ominously warned that, “It’s impossible to understand the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol without addressing the movement that has come to be known as Christian nationalism.”

Perry and Whitehead define Christian nationalism as:

..a cultural framework—a collection of myths, traditions, symbols, narratives, and value systems—that idealizes and advocates a fusion of Christianity with American civic life … the ‘Christianity’ of Christian nationalism represents something more than religion. As we will show, it includes assumptions of nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity, along with divine sanction for authoritarian control and militarism. It is as ethnic and political as it is religious. (p. 10)

Author and pastor Tim Keller, famous for his book The Reason for God, reviewed Taking America Back For God for the quarterly Life in the Gospel. “We must recognize that Christian Nationalism in its most pure form is indeed idolatrous,” Keller somberly intoned. “It looks to political power as the thing that will truly save us”

Russell Moore, leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, also denounced Christian nationalism as a heresy.  The wrath of God,” said Moore, “is revealed against ‘Blood and soil.’” 

And in February, 100 housebroken evangelicals signed an open letter “condemning the role of ‘radicalized Christian nationalism’ in feeding the political extremism that led to the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by supporters of former President Donald Trump”

But who will enforce the new orthodoxy against the “heretics”?  Though many Christian institutions have been browbeaten into conformity with the shibboleths of Cultural Marxism, a remnant of largely leaderless Christian nationalists persists in the hinterlands, resisting assimilation into a new Tower of Babel.  

Enter the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), abetted by Big Tech and a compliant press.  The scattered holdouts who refuse to bend the knee to Baal, even if they are culturally and politically powerless, must be targeted with public shaming and ritual humiliation.    

The SPLC, America’s most successful and prosperous hate group, recently released its 2020 Hate Map and Hate List.  Since 1971, the SPLC has raised hundreds of millions of dollars peddling the myth that Middle America is teeming with legions of hatemongers draped in Klan hoods waving copies of the Turner Diaries and the Bible.

As always, the SPLC chronicle of the “hate industry” includes immigration restrictionists.  VDARE, along with the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), made the cut.


But the SPLC casts a wide net.  Its definition of hate is elastic enough to encompass not just the Westboro Baptist Church and Aryan Brotherhood but also relatively bland Christian organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, the Ruth Institute, D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM), and more. 

However, it is not merely large Christian organizations with national platforms that earn the “hate group” moniker.  In central Michigan, for instance, a small rural congregation (and its pastor, Bret McAtee) was named a “White Nationalist” hate group by the SPLC.

What are the criteria for being defined as a hate group?  Mark Potok, who spent twenty years with the Southern Poverty Law Center, told the Lansing State Journal that McAtee’s words, both spoken and written, are likely what landed the small church on its hate map.  Potok explained that it is about the ideology of the group or its leaders rather than concrete and specific acts: 

“Our criteria for a ‘hate group,’ first of all, have nothing to do with criminality, or violence, or any kind of guess we’re making about ‘this group could be dangerous.’ It’s strictly ideological. So we look at a group and we say, ‘Does this group, in its platform statements, or the speeches of its leader or leaders… Does this group say that a whole group of people, by virtue of their group characteristics, is somehow less?’”

Potok has said openly that the motivation of the SPLC is to destroy groups that it targets for ideological reasons.

“Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate groups, I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them,” Potok said at an event in Michigan in 2007.

Lamentably, with the pretense of objectivity, the SPLC is not just the arbiter of bigotry but also the media’s expert witness for evaluating “extremism.”  When the SPLC releases its Hate Map the media respond like Pavlovian dogs, producing salacious and often slanderous stories about the “racists” and nationalists allegedly terrorizing Middle America.  The purpose is to silence dissenters and exile social traditionalists and nationalists to the periphery of American life for the crime of articulating positions that were common, indeed almost universal, until the 1960s. And the hive descended upon pastor McAtee. 

Michigan Public Radio (MPR) claimed McAtee, “has maligned a panoply of persons and groups, including LGBTQ individuals, feminists, non-Christian immigrants…other pastors, and people who support diversity.”  The Fox affiliate in Lansing offered coverage and the Lansing State Journal (LSJ), said McAtee “frequently expresses racist, white nationalist, homophobic and transphobic views.”


MPR offered no quotations or links to buttress their claims.  The LSJ and Fox47 casually and carelessly ripped portions of McAtee’s blog posts from their broader context to build an indictment not supported by his words.    

Indeed, many of McAtee’s challenges to the smelly orthodoxies of our era were fairly standard conservative cultural critiques until quite recently.  Echoing the warnings of Sam Francis about Anarcho-Tyranny, McAtee said “diversity” is a weapon designed to produce statism.  Multiculturalism is built on an egalitarian foundation, fueled by envy, and wielded so as to further undermine the cracked foundations of the West.  

A “multicultural, multi-faith, multi-racial, pluralist diverse social order…is the death of the West and the God who made the West,” said McAtee.

Adding to his list of transgressions, McAtee has unapologetically argued that nationalism is natural, taught in scripture, and affirmed historically by the church.  

“God still deals with people as being members of nations, peoples, and races,” wrote McAtee.  “This is a very unsavory truth for the modern Evangelical with their love affair for the erasure of all the creation distinctions. God has not given up on nations anymore than He has given up on families from where nations arise.”

And here we get to the heart of the matter.  The “heretical ” teaching being attacked is Christian nationalism.  

McAtee and his congregation had a loose affiliation with the Christian Reformed Church (CRC).  The CRC has been in decline for decades, a consequence of its ongoing theological drift into apostate liberalism.  In 2018, McAtee was released from the CRC after a dispute over his teaching of “Kinism.”  In 2019, a CRC synod declared Kinists heretics.  What exactly is Kinism?

Kinism is a variant of Christian Nationalism that rests on a series of theological assumptions about social relations associated with traditional doctrines of Reformed Protestantism.  It begins with the assertion that men are inherently religious creatures and that all “government” is by definition theocratic in nature.  Whether personal or familial, church or state, every system and social order is necessarily faith-based and presuppositional rather than religiously neutral or empiricist in nature.  

Second, the normative order for families and nations, which are a product of extended families, is primarily racial and ethnic rather than propositional.  Culture is principally though not exclusively a product of people and place more so than ideas.

In this view, even multiculturalists have a “theocratic” view of authority and a tribal anthropology:  by the power of reason (their deity), they construct a global order which blends all racial and national distinctions into a single people, the race of Adam or humanity (their tribe). The dispute thus is over the teaching of holy scripture and the church.  Is cosmopolitanism, globalism or empire a Christian social order?  Or does the divine economy rest upon nations?

For 2,000 years, Christians have taught that national, ethnic, and language groups are not arbitrary human creations or social constructs, but divinely created entities that reflect the purposes and glory of God.

Nations arise organically as extensions of families and in the Old Testament nations are the descendents of a particular ancestor (See Genesis 10).  People organize themselves into distinct groups for the purpose of securing safety and providing a series of collective goods. Nations have a collective identity and a shared ancestry along with a shared worldview that is the product of a common language, religion, and customs. 

God created tribes, nations and races to have an affinity for their own people.  This is expressed in the words of St. Paul in Romans 9:3:  “For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.”  A deep affection for one’s kinsmen is natural and good, indeed an outgrowth of the commandment to honor our fathers and mothers.  And nationalism is simply the self-conscious awareness that seeks to develop and improve the nation and to codify its existence with the laws, government, mores, and institutions that make civic life possible.

Scripture likewise teaches that nations serve the purpose of aiding man by pointing to greater transcendent realities.  Boundaries and nations are designed to point us to God himself.

“He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him.” (Acts 17:26-27)

Christ assumed the goodness of unique nations, teaching that the gospel does not flatten or eliminate nations.  He commanded the church to disciple nations as nations, not merely as individuals: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20).

The church–Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox–has also taught that nationalism is biblical, an aspect of personal piety, and a reflection of the goodness of God.  

“The Bible recognizes the validity and rightness of all the constitutional principles and impulses of our nature.” wrote Presbyterian Charles Hodge.  “It therefore approves of parental and filial affection, and, as is plain from this and other passages, of peculiar love for the people of our own race and country.”

Thomas Aquinas said:

Man is a debtor chiefly to his parents and his country, after God. Wherefore just as it belongs to religion to give worship to God, so does it belong to piety, in the second place, to give worship to one’s parents and one’s country [i.e., one’s people]. The worship due to our parents includes the worship given to all our kindred, since our kinfolk are those who descend from the same parents.

“Nations,” said Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his Nobel Prize speech, “are the wealth of humanity, its generalized personalities. The least among them has its own special colors, and harbors within itself a special aspect of God’s design.

It should also go without saying Christian Nationalism is not “White Supremacy,” but applies these biblical principles to all national groups–red and yellow, black and white.   The gospel of Jesus Christ is not an affront to this natural order and does not seek to overthrow it.