The current push for nationalism belies a distrust in God’s ordained means of grace - the Word, prayer, and the sacraments. We grasp for power in the wake of our failure as a Church, only still failing to understand where our true strength comes from.
Nationalistic centralism failed in Europe, and it has failed here. A large national state will always be the Leviathan seeking to swallow up everything it can. It will always be a safe haven for those with a lust for power without real accountability.
Nationalism will forever be a a bane to local and traditional culture. And the idea that Christian Nationalists argue in the same breath for tradition is ironic. Once nationalism is created and let loose, in the end the only tradition you have left is a Statist one.
In nationalism, corporatism finds its greatest ally. The younger ones among us can’t remember a time when blatant advertising wasn’t emblazoned across every piece of clothing we wore. They don’t know a time when people didn’t define themselves by their devotion to a product or corporation. We buy products. But more than that, we have become the product. A centralized national government will always gladly sell us to the highest bidder.
In nationalism, fascism is inevitable.
Nationalism will always tend toward atheism.
When Machen protested against a federal board of education, it was for good reason.
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