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Michael E.
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God, nation, freedom: the holy trinity in the Christian nationalist theological pantheon. What’s critical to notice in Goldwater’s approach is that the politics come first. The foundations of the belief system are not Christian love or
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I agree strongly. Many (most) people I think of as “Christian Nationalist” consistently use politics to shape their expressed theology. This requires ignoring the major principles of Jesus teaching to make room for and justify “Conservative” thinking. I do think the author over-played the racist aspects of American Christian Nationalism. I do see its presence in todays culture and it certainly has been part of the cultural history in my lifetime.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
― The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States
― The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
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[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
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