If This Is 'Christian Nationalism,' Sign Me Up!
The other day, Politico writer Heidi Przybyla appeared on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” to talk about the hysteria de jour, “Christian nationalism.”... What makes “Christian nationalists” different, she went on, was that they believe “our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don’t come from any earthly authority.”
As numerous critics have already pointed out, “Christian nationalism” sounds identical to the case for American liberty offered in the Declaration of Independence... The entire American project is contingent on accepting the notion that the state can’t give or take our God-given freedoms. It is the best kind of “extremism.”...
If natural rights are truly inalienable, how can the government create a slew of new (positive) “rights” - the right to housing or abortion or health care or free birth control?...
As a nonbeliever myself, I’ve been asked by Christians many times how I can square my skepticism of the Almighty with a belief in natural rights.
My answer is simple: I choose to...
Just as an atheist or agnostic or irreligious secular American accepts that it’s wrong to steal and murder and cheat, they can accept that man has an inherent right to speak freely and the right to defend himself, his family, and his property. History, experience, and an innate sense of the world tell me that such rights benefit individuals as well as mankind. It is rational...
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Christian Nationalism Isn’t Going Away, by Mike Sabo, American Mind, 27 February 2024:
... If you weren’t already aware of the invincible ignorance of our elite class, you should be now... Beneath the ignorance, however, is malevolence. Especially in recent years, there’s been a collective push by the regime and its flunkies to make the opposition tap out. Dissent from their agenda is not to be tolerated.
God is no longer the source of our natural rights - instead, a bureaucratic, managerial system doles out rights to groups at the managers’ discretion. This is part of the Left’s overarching project to transcend the bounds of humanity through technology overseen by a woke clerisy...
Fortunately, some Americans seem to be awaking to these dangers. Refusing to submit to the woke gods, they are looking to the God of old America. They feel the pull of a past moral order, an America that was defined by a Protestant form of Christianity on which our shared public life rested...
American citizens are looking for guidance on how to pass on the blessings of liberty to their children in a world that confuses liberty with license...