Partisan trends are mirrored by religious and social conservatives who have happily joined into the new isolationist chorus. Thought leaders in these camps have even invented a theological rationale for the new nationalism that sounds eerily similar to the racial separatism arguments of decades past. God divided humanity into nations, they patiently explain. As theologians and pastors from Wayne Grudem to Robert Jeffress have repeatedly said, Jerusalem had walls, Heaven will have walls, border walls are God’s idea. What’s more, God enjoins Christians to obey—and enforce—the laws. That includes
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...religion now using fhe same arguments for 'nationalists' as was used for slavery, God meant for the segragation of people and sacrosanct borders.
