In defense of Christian nationalism
By: Brian Fischer One News Now
America was founded by a Christian people who created a secular government based on Christian principles and a belief in a creator God who authored our human rights.
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America’s Constitution is shot through with the thinking of Christian statesmen who shared a deep-dyed view of the world, soaked deeply in the Bible. And if you believe in a God who is the Creator of all men who are made in the image and likeness of God, you are a Christian nationalist.
I am a Christian nationalist because the Founders were.
The Founders established a nation grounded and rooted in Christianity, Christian principles, and a Christian worldview. They enshrined their view of what a Christian nation looks like in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
While Christian nationalism is condemned and dismissed by some as a thinly disguised form of white supremacy, it is impossible that that could be the case. The ringing declaration of the Founders was that “all men,” every last one of them, regardless of race or ethnicity, have received certain non-negotiable human rights from their Creator.
The Founders called these rights “inalienable,” which means they are so profound and so basic that no man and no government has the moral authority to take them away. Human beings are “created equal,” and because they have been created by God and have received these rights from God, every government has a sacred duty to protect them.
These rights do not come to men from government but from God. This means no government on the face of the earth has the moral authority to deprive any of its citizens of any one of these rights. Rather, government – every government – has the solemn obligation to use its God-ordained power to safeguard and guarantee and “secure” these rights to their populace.
I use the term “constitutionalist” synonymously with “Christian nationalist,” because our constitution is the constitution of a Christian nation, and could only be the constitution of a Christian nation. Our Constitution is shot through, warp and woof, with the thinking of Christian statesmen who shared a deep-dyed view of the world, soaked deeply in the Bible.
There is a God, the Founders affirm, who is the Creator with a capital “C,” the God who is revealed in the very first verse of the Christian Bible. This God is the Creator of “the heavens and the earth,” everything that exists in the universe. One practical outworking of this foundational truth is that an American constitutionalist must oppose the theory of Darwinian evolution with every fiber of his being. A man cannot affirm the Constitution itself without at the same time standing athwart evolution shouting “Stop!”
The highest expression of His creative power is man. “God created man in his own image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). Man, and not any member of the animal kingdom, is the pinnacle of God’s artistry. He is not an intruder in the environment but rather God’s vice-regent with benevolent authority over everything God has made: “Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth” (Genesis 1:26).
And there is a profound reason civil rights are not granted to animals in the Constitution: they are not, as man is, created in the image of God. All these truths about man are revealed in the first chapter of the Bible and inform and shape our Constitution.
So, my friend, whether you know it or not, if you believe in a God who is the Creator of all men who are made in the image and likeness of God, you are a Christian nationalist. If you believe that our rights come from Him and not from our government, you are a constitutionalist. And you may stand proudly in the lineage of the men who founded our nation and our Constitution upon the Rock. Welcome to the club.
Bryan Fischer hosts “Focal Point with Bryan Fischer” every weekday on AFR Talk ( American Family Radio ) from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (Central). He is author of The Boy to Man Book: Preparing Your Son for Manhood .
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Christian Nationalism? Really?
More like christain dominionism.
Perhaps. Except with Dominionism, Inquisition would provide its purity.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
And yet they all owned slaves. But "that's impossible!" you say? Our founders were full of contradictions.
And yet they were, at that time, taking them away from slaves.
" Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this (slavery), as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away." - Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens
And yet even today many Republican legislators have tried to disenfranchise minority voters and have been undeniably caught by the courts doing so.
"In its ruling, the appeals court said the law was intentionally designed to discriminate against black people."
"North Carolina Republican legislators had requested data on voting patterns by race and, with that data in hand, drafted a law that would "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision," the court said.
The declaration of independence does proclaim a right to declare your own government if you feel the current government " becomes destructive of these ends". However, to do so as they were implying meant getting a majority of Americans to agree with you, not just become a minority insurgent fighting against the current government through violent means. Even if conservatives, as they see it, are backed into the corner by the majority who doesn't really give a shit about their rural problems and wouldn't mind forgetting they even exist, that still doesn't give them the right to fight back violently.
Seriously? WTFart?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
OMFartingGoodeness, they did not in any way shape or form. This is some of the most ridiculous nonsense I've ever read. It borders on hysterical.
Whoever wields power should be moral so that justice and compassion may prevail. So if power is concentrated in a dictator or king, I would want a moral leader. If it is concentrated in the people, be it democracy, republicanism, or communism, then the people should be a moral people. I don’t think this requires that they be Christian. Specific religious dogma seems unnecessary, though I can see why some people would desire it.
I think the founders saw value in the people being a moral people, but they knew that in reality, they often weren’t. Thus we have a system loaded with checks and balances to protect us all from ourselves.
HA, I think you should reconsider about Christian Nationalism. Jesus did not task us with creating political structures. He tasked us with bringing the Good News to everyone. Christian Nationalism is dangerous because it becomes the goal and the focus, not Jesus. It would be a false idol. If Jesus had wanted us to create Christian nations he would have said so. If you really want a Christian nation, you don't do it from the top down. You do it from the bottom up by sharing the Good News and living your life in such a manner as to attract others to Christ.
New excuses for a bad idea
Numerically, the United States is a predominantly Christian nation. That's a factual statement—just like the statement that historically, Christianity has been a major force in our public life. But to call the United States a "Christian nation" is an assertion of ideology, not fact—particularly coming from the same corner that produces efforts to legislate religious beliefs about homosexuality or abortion.
The Republican Party's apparent embrace of such attitudes is troubling. It lends credence to the notion that our war against radical Islamic terrorism is a religious war. And it alienates many Americans who support the Republican values of limited government and strong defense but also regard the separation of church and state as a bedrock American principle, not a "myth."
Conservative Nationalists, Not Immigrants, Are Having Trouble Assimilating in America
That conservatives are preaching a full-scale abandonment of America's bedrock commitments to capitalism, democracy, religious pluralism, and individual liberty shows that even as they accuse immigrants of not assimilating in America, they themselves are dissimilating from America.
The vast majority of immigrants believe in America's fundamental promise. If conservatives don't, then they are the real problem. Immigrants may or may not be increasing littering in America, but conservatives are trashing it.
While christian nationalists may be "constitutionalists" (whatever that may mean) it does not necessarily follow that all "constitutionalists" are christian. Nor does if follow that if you believe in a God who is the Creator of all men who are made in the image and likeness of God, you are a Christian nationalist. That is far too sweeping a statement.
Even the website doesn't really say what it is, only what it is against. And apparently hasn't found anything to be against since 2017. Best I can tell, it simply a few who want to enforce some kind of orthodoxy on the nation, and all I can really say to that is, god help us all.
Amen.