The Case for Christian Nationalism

by Stephen Wolfe

This day—that is, July 14, 1789, the storming of the Bastille in Paris, France—marked the “secularization of our history and the disincarnation of the Christian God,” as Albert Camus wrote in The Rebel. This day sparked the French Revolution, the instigators of which sought to “overthrow the principle of divine right.” Camus continues: God played a part in history through the medium of kings. But His representative in history has been killed, for there is no longer a king. Therefore, there is nothing but a semblance of God, relegated to the heaven of principles. The revolutionaries may well refer to the Gospel, but in fact, they dealt a terrible blow to Christianity from which it has not yet recovered.