Brent Merrill’s Reviews > The Idea of a Christian Society > Status Update

But for most people, to be able to simplify issues so as to see only the definite external enemy, is extremely exhilarating, and brings about the bright eye and the springy step that go so well with the political uniform.

It is easy, safe and pleasant to critique foreigners;and it has the advantage of distracting attention from the evils or our own society.

To focus our attention on evil in others is a way to escape from the painful struggle of eradicating it from our own hearts and lives and an evasion of our real responsibilities.

...surely a nationalism which is overtly antagonistic to Christianity is a less dangerous menace for us than a nationalism which professes a Christianity from which all Christian content has been evacuated.