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Help and Support Links
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Mainstream
Bibliography
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- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
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Christian Nationalism is quite the oxymoron, isn't it?
Have you ever looked at what the messiah was supposed to do?
The messiah was supposed to be a king of the line of David who was supposed to defeat the enemies of Israel, and lead the nation to subjugate the entire world and usher in a new age of “peace.”
Jesus said, himself, that he would bring in that new age of peace and toss everyone who wasn’t his followers into fire for eternal torment.
It’s unsurprising that nationalism crops up… even if Jesus wasn’t, uh, you know. Christian.
Yeah, and? Have you ever looked at what Jesus commanded his followers to do?
What Jesus said, when addressing the idea of people who would be thrown into fire, was this:
Those are the people being eternally tormented - those who would not serve the least of these.
There's so much more to expound on as well.
Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount:
Later, in Acts, Peter meets a centurion, who is the first Gentile to receive the Holy Spirit:
The Messiah was indeed prophesied to defeat the enemies of Israel. He was also prophesied to be rejected by the people of Israel.
I won't say the problem isn't organized religion.
Which would also line up with how Jesus acted toward the Pharisees and Sadducees.
From the Sermon on the Mount:
Later, in the Temple:
Jesus showed up, flipped the script on organized religion, and they killed him. I do think Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron. It makes a show of faith and positions a government as an authority of God. This is not what Jesus commanded.
Bonus Verses:
"Jesus said, 'My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.'"