by Aaron Edwards, That Good Fight
Most modern Christians still think that preserving secular liberalism is the “safe” option and that recovering Christian nationalism is the “dangerous” option.
This testifies to just how easily influenced modern Christians have been by secular liberal propaganda.
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As a posture towards society, this is both incredibly foolish and incredibly dangerous. Most people have simply gotten so used to the declined and morally corrupted state of modern western nations that they have come to call it “better” than any alternative, or even “ideal”.
On Anti-Christian-Nationalism…ism
That’s why so many Christians are still busy publishing anxious concern-pieces like “What’s wrong with Christian Nationalism” and the “Dangers of Christian Nationalism” as if it’s the number 1 ideological threat to civilization, at just the time when Pride marches, vape shops, DEI bureaucrats, rape gangs, multicultural globalists and political Islamists are busy undermining just about everything we ever held dear about our civilization right before our eyes.
Stephen Wolfe—who for the last few years has been systematically vilified by many of the “respectable” evangelical platforms for putting his head above the parapet to explicitly articulate a case for Christian Nationalism—has often made the observation that modern Christians seem to think that any form of nationalism is a modern political idolatry being imposed upon the Church, but that the current political liberal order is how all good Christians have always seen things. As he recently said on X, summarising two simultaneous opinions commonly held by those who oppose Christian Nationalism:
Anti-CN guy: “Nationalism is a 19th century phenomenon.”
Also anti-CN guy: “Modern liberalism is the timeless politics of Jesus.”
It really is bizarre how common this kind of thinking is. Who can look out at the modern west and say, “Jesus definitely prefers this kind of setup to anything that’s come before it.”