Volume 4 · Honest HereticsLesson 42About 22 minutes

Christian Nationalism

Can a nation be Christian?

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The center · John 18:36

³⁶Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

Many Christians have heard that their country was founded as a Christian nation, that it has drifted from God, and that faithful people must take it back. Sometimes the call is to pray. Sometimes it is to win: to put believers in charge, write the faith into law, and make the nation officially Christian again. The name for that second idea is Christian nationalism.

You're not imagining it. Jesus' name is used to sell a political project he turned down in the desert, walked away from on a hillside and disowned before Pilate. The movement has scholars who study it and writers who openly defend it, so you don't have to rely on anyone's label. You can read what its own advocates say.