
Christian nationalism is a political ideology that seeks to closely intertwine Christianity with national identity, government, and public policy. To the point of Christian’s should control the goverment entirely and it usally leads to oppression of people who don’t want to believe think like Christian’s trying to put the 10 commandments in every classroom that would be a nationalist belief
Yeah they were trying to radicalize people but left pretty quickly once they realized they couldn’t answer actually substantive philosophical questions without looking incredibly ignorant. I’m agnostic but grew up with my dad as a deacon, the odd thing about these people is they have remarkably little knowledge about scripture let alone broader philosophy, and rage quit when pushed on their understanding of either. Very larpy online vibes with a strange sense of superiority grounded in nothing
Many of them unknowingly worship the state and their skin color “culture” under the guise of a “western civilization” they have no actual understanding of that has since passed for quite some time. Just another symptom of the broader crises in meaning, identity, and purpose that modernity has challenged us with, not all that dissimilar from the wayward youth who join gangs
I see that but at the same time I can see a link between culture, religion, and nation. They all exist on the same stage I guess and it doesn’t seem wrong for a country to be Christian just as some may be Buddhist, Islamic, etc. I feel like there is definitely a line in forcing on people something such as through apostasy or blasphemy laws, but I don’t see an issue with religion being a specific part of a nations identity and culture.
When it’s a melting pot culture like we have in America one religon being over another causes immense issues like during the aids crisis a lot of people in the government believed they should let them die because god was punishing them, that’s the kind of thing that happens during religious goverment control
Well that definitely isn’t good, but I think there is a distinction between a religious government (theocracy) and a government that identifies with a particular religion. A government can exist, I think, without exercising any religious powers but still subscribing to a certain religion.