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Liberals’ Obsession with ‘Christian Nationalism’
The American Spectator ^ | June 11, 2021 | George Neumayr

Posted on 07/11/2021 6:16:44 PM PDT by ebb tide

Liberals’ Obsession with ‘Christian Nationalism’

The chattering class is very preoccupied these days with “Christian nationalism.” The pundits who speak darkly about it don’t bother to define the phrase, but it is meant to conjure up a terrifying picture of extremism. That liberals consider it a devastating slur speaks to their own anti-Christian and anti-nationalist views.

The existence of patriotic Christians across the land certainly wouldn’t have alarmed the Founding Fathers. They would have found the use of “Christian nationalism” as an epithet puzzling. Indeed, they assumed that the American form of government would work best in the hands of a Christian people.

It is liberalism’s jaundiced view of the American founding that should worry Americans. Neither Christian nor nationalist, liberalism proposes a new political order alien to the country’s religious origins.

The more liberals lock arms with actual extremists — they have wedded themselves to Black Lives Matter, which is explicitly anti-American and anti-Western — the more they feel the need to invent imaginary ones, both from America’s past and present. By “extremism,” what liberals mean more often than not is simply traditional Christianity and conservatism. It is a slur designed primarily to tarnish liberalism’s conventional political opponents. The broad application of the label has rendered it meaningless.

In assessing religious extremism, liberals habitually strain at the gnat and swallow the camel. They inveigh against “Christian nationalists” while shrugging at Muslim jihadists. The same liberal publications that scoff at the threat of “Sharia law” churn out endless pieces on the supposed dangers of persistent Christianity. For them, the Little Sisters of the Poor pose a greater threat to the country than the Muslim Brotherhood. Notice also the reluctance of these publications to label any violence “Islamic,” even as they brood over the Capitol Hill riot as a “Christian revolt.”

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TOPICS: Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antichristians; atheistsupremacists; christiannationalism; conspiracy; demoncrats; hatespeech; leftistbigots; liberals

1 posted on 07/11/2021 6:16:44 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide
“Christian nationalism.”

Of course they are obsessed with it. If you want to undermine the country, that is what you have to destroy.

2 posted on 07/11/2021 6:18:16 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ebb tide

As opposed to the Satanist Marxists [see Alynsky’s book dedication...]?


3 posted on 07/11/2021 6:19:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Al Hitan; DuncanWaring; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; kalee; markomalley; ...

Ping


4 posted on 07/11/2021 6:20:47 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Christians are the biggestbtheeatbto liberalism. Christians, unless the kill 100 million of us in a single night, could take the country back anytime we want to.


5 posted on 07/11/2021 6:21:20 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: ebb tide

The ancient Israelites turned their backs on God who had blessed them , and they were led away into captivity as a consequence. I’m afraid a similar fate will befall America, which also was blessed by God but has turned away into idolatry and all sorts of evil. God is not mocked.


6 posted on 07/11/2021 6:21:48 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: ebb tide

The thing that gets me is that they don’t define it, they don’t understand it, they can’t list its crimes or delineate its excesses. All they know is that they hate “Christian Nationalism” with every fiber of their being. Hate it, hate it, hate it.


7 posted on 07/11/2021 6:22:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: ebb tide
Christianity does not exclude anyone. Christians represent every race and nationality. Anyone, even liberals, can become Christian. Jesus said to all, "Take up your cross and follow Me." That's the part liberals can't abide. Oh, and Nationalists can be Christian too.

8 posted on 07/11/2021 6:36:20 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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To: ebb tide

The brutal and violent annihilation of Christianity is THE core goal of Democrats.


9 posted on 07/11/2021 7:10:50 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
TWo of Jesus' disciples- Matthew the Tax Collector, and Simon the anti-Government Zealot. Without Christ, they were sworn mortal enemies- one a collaborationist with the hated Roman Empire, while the other a radical Rebel who fought to overthrow the government.

With Christ, they were brothers who helped bring the Gospel to the world, and died violent deaths for His sake.

10 posted on 07/11/2021 7:15:11 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue always is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: ebb tide

Most Christians don’t get too deeply involved in politics, they are too busy going to their churches to be entertained, going to their share your ignorance Bible Study during the week, and some where in there they are going to the special prayer meeting to pray for some one ingrown toenail that they have never meet and never will, and some fat dude that has already had two or three heart attacks. Liberals are NOT to afraid of those Christians as long as they continual to hide out in their Churches or where ever they hide out at. Most of the liberals know a majority of of Christians believe we are in the last days and believe things will get worse in the last days and because of this they don’t get too involved in politics except for a few Christians on the fringe. The problem is a lot of these Christians are getting wiser to the end time crap out their and are looking at different views of the end times out their and one view is postmill and variations of postmill, which I won’t get into detail much other then to say a lot of them believe things are going to get better as time goes by and it is the duty of Christians to get involved in politics and that is what I believe liberals are totally afraid of the most, and that is Christians getting involved in politics on their spare time, and they are afraid a majority of them might get involved in politics as they all of the sudden start believing it is the Christian duty to get involved in politics. Liberals don’t want a mass movement of Christians getting involved in politics ESPECIALLY if they are conservative Christians and not liberal chrisitans, they are ok with liberal christians getting involved but not with the conservative ones. I’ll leave this comment at where it is right now, I think most of you get the idea where I’m going etc.


11 posted on 07/11/2021 7:28:26 PM PDT by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: Jonty30

Their got nukes and a senile old gezser out of his mine enough to use them


12 posted on 07/11/2021 8:40:00 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: Jonty30

“...unless the kill 100 million of us in a single night, could take the country back anytime we want to.”

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That seems like a pretty generous estimation of our numbers.


13 posted on 07/11/2021 10:10:37 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: ebb tide

We are White Nationalists.


14 posted on 07/11/2021 10:17:57 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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