Christian Nationalism Is A Meme Trap

Now that Christian Nationalism has become a concept, people are trying to figure out what it is. Shouldn’t that be the other way around? Here is one attempt at definition that I believe sincere and well-meaning, and yet it confirms my doubts regarding substance.

Moral inversion has reached such extremes that maybe people don’t even know what Normal looks like anymore. Or worse, maybe Christian Nationalism is nothing but Normalcy Neurosis… the desperately self-deceiving effort to believe it’s still 1985.

Or worse yet… maybe Christian Nationalism is the same kind of gatekeeping meme-trap that Buckleyite Conservatism, Moral Majority and Tea Party turned out to be. A common trait of Totalism is that, as Saul Alinsky described, it personalizes opposition. It dramatizes its enemies to the point that they become symbols. It needs a big, beautiful bogeyman that the sheeple can direct their Two Minutes Hate at. “Don’t lie to me, Gustav! You’re not just a protester waving a flag… you’re a Russian agent of Orange Man destroying our democracy! Worse than Putler!”

(America will have achieved full Totalism when Antifa goons scream accusations at Putin (who is not present) while firebombing the local Starbucks. Such people will have a lie wedged so deep inside their brains that they’re functionally psychotic. Do not weep for them. They chose the lie and loved the lie and lived the lie until there was nothing left but the lie. Thus did their self-hate achieve cherished oblivion.)

To be fair, I believe Moral Majority was well-intentioned, and Tea Party was a single-issue tax revolt. That didn’t stop the Marxists from gleefully Converging those big, new, wealthy and respected TARGETS. The lesson here is it doesn’t even matter who came up with Christian Nationalism. I wish people would catch on that in totalitarian err, liberal democratic states, it’s not safe to gather dissidents into a single organization then announce your address and political ambitions to Big Media.

A thousand Christians forming a hundred low-profile groups in order to shelter their families from the queers is not a threat the Regime can easily oppose. They can’t fantasize themselves as Heroes Of the Revolution by ambushing the soccer moms of Podunk. It would be a TEXTBOOK PSYOP if the Regime floated Christian Nationalism as a national label (read, target) that its enemies (read, you) would voluntarily pin to their chests.

Let the record show, I do NOT consider myself any kind of Christian Nationalist.

14 Points of Christian Nationalism – A Draft

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As Christian Nationalism gains more steam amidst the ongoing collapse of Western liberalism, I’m seeing a lot of detractors attempting to dismiss it as meaningless. They take theological and political disagreements among Christian Nationalists as a sign that even we don’t know what it is.

It IS meaningless. You conservatives have been handed an ideology that’ll be defined as needed by the authorities of the moment. Again.

Do I need to paint you a picture? of William F. Buckley, Jr? during his CIA days?

They also make bizarre and illogical conclusions about what Christian Nationalism entails and portray them as core principles. The result is confusion all around.

If that’s a reference to the globohomo detractors, I’ve had a great time reading their articles. Sweet projection! Everything they fear we religious freaks will do, is what they’ve been doing all along.

Because they’re not religious at all, don’cha know. Can’t a guy rebel against the God of Truth and Creation via child sacrifice without being compared to Moloch?

Putting my zealotry aside, however, while reading those articles, I have also noticed that “Christian Nationalism” is giving them a target to hate and lawfare at… the kind of target they didn’t have before. Christians should stop and think before proceeding in this direction.

Having written about Christian Nationalism several times myself, I’m keenly aware that none of my descriptions amount to a clear definition or statement of principles. And so, I thought it would be appropriate to put together a list of 14 points of Christian Nationalism to help the concept coalesce.

1. Christian Nationalism is a political ideology informed by the Christian faith, not a religion informed by political ideology.

The nation will be Christian by not insisting on Christianity? History has tried this all three ways: mandatory-Christian, optional-Christian and ethnic-Christian. All three have failed because no human institution is, or even can, be loyal to God.

God is within us believers, not the Constitution. Or the Vatican. Even the divinely appointed Levitical priesthood was a completely failed institution. There can never be a Christian nation, only at best a nation of Christians. Remember that God’s favorite form of government was the incredibly formless system of Judges. Is that what a Christian National government will look like? Serious question.

7. Government is incapable of forcing conversion to Christianity because conversion depends on a faith that cannot be coerced into existence.

We aren’t talking about forced conversion. We’re talking about forced morality, and government has the duty of enforcing morality.

9. Wrongdoing may be tolerated by government when legal suppression of evil would lead to even greater evils.

This is not a Christian moral. Why is the author already talking about government sanction of explicit evil?

12. God has appointed fathers to govern their own households. National government proceeds from this household government and exists to serve it. It does not replace it and may not usurp it.

We STILL aren’t telling women No!

13. Immigration is tolerable only insofar as it neither unduly burdens nor harms our nation. Mass immigration is always harmful. Smaller scale immigration is more harmful the more an immigrant differs from our nation in terms of ancestry, language, history, culture and religious heritage.

Treachery! This is just another attempt at squaring the Marxist circle. “A ‘Christian’ government will figure out a way to make immigration work! Maybe a little slower from higher-quality nations?” Better idea: let’s stop immigration entirely for a few decades in order to repopulate and rediscover who we are without the constant reintroduction of foreign ideas & loyalties, what say? If American plutocrats end up forced to pay their workers high wages, creating a dreaded middle class, then that’s a risk Christ is willing to run.

Let me paint the picture of what a Christian nation… ANY nation describable as Christian… MUST look like:

a. Women are forbidden all authority over men. Men who empower women shall be put to death for rebellion against God.

b. Government shall mandate that women marry young. Men have sexual needs and the ONLY Christ-approved place for those needs is marriage. Thus, marriage must be a duty of young women. Note carefully that this is a social duty, not just a religious duty. Godless men have needs, too.

c. Government is not permitted to help the poor. It is theft to take money from he who earned it, to he who did not. Theft does not stop being theft when government says so. God defines evil, not government.

d. All homicide must be punished by death, excepting self-defense.

e. Sodomy must be punished by death.

f. Adultery must be punished by death.

g. Blasphemy and heresy must be punished by death. Get the idea? God is a big proponent of the death penalty. Other crimes can be debated, but God is on record that those specific crimes warrant execution.

h. Get rid of the Synagogue of Satan. This shouldn’t even have to be said but nooo, we STILL have Judeo-Christianity in America!

i. Government shall be empowered and required to conduct ethnic purges. Nobody shall sell their land to foreigners. There’s no way around this, if…

3. Christian Nationalists understand nation as meaning a people who share common ancestry, religious heritage, language, culture, and history together.

…is going to be the standard. And that is, indeed, what ‘Nationalist’ means.

Let me say it again for the slow class: Christian Nationalism INEVITABLY means YOU WILL BECOME A RACIST. That’s a good thing. Everybody is racist, especially the people who claim not to be. God made us racist. But if you get your Christian Nationalism then you’ll have to own it and stop crying in the corner whenever a groid welfare bum screeches raycisss at you.

You want a Christian Nation, ye Christian? Do you really? Because God is not your kind-hearted therapist butler uniting the world in love. You don’t get a return to the Good Old Days. You don’t get a government you can blindly trust. And you don’t get to raise your daughter into a son.

When I read what Christians are thinking Christian Nationalism is, it ain’t none of what I described. 

Meanwhile, they’re so lacking in discernment that they don’t even recognize that creating a national Christian Nationalist movement is Step One in beginning the purge of Christianity… bringing all the dissidents into one “big tent” that the Regime can drop a bomb on. Instead of going door-to-door across a continent.

Stop trying to recreate the past, Churchians. Stop being so damn ignorant of your own beliefs. Stop being naïve about modern evil. And please, if it’s at all possible, do not describe yourself as a Christian Nationalist until you are certain what the term means to other people.

Because it’s probably a lie crafted by Satan to ensnare Christians attempting to escape Globohomo.

 

Edit, I see I didn’t explain my concept of “meme trap”. We start with the fact that Christian Nationalism doesn’t have a preset meaning, organization, leader etc.. It could have several meanings from theocracy to ‘USA 1985’ to ‘no more Christ-hating socialism’. The fact of its having several possible and desirable definitions, entices a person to pick up and pin the ‘Christian Nationalist’ label on himself.

Then, for example, the Regime chooses to define ‘Christian Nationalism’ as insurrection and a racist threat to our democracy. Which is plausible because USA started out as a republic (of nations) and not a nation. Result, the people who self-identified as Christian Nationalist must now explain they didn’t mean what they said to the J6 Commission. From handcuffs and solitary confinement.

I call it a meme trap because it’s a good-sounding idea that could become dangerous to its holders depending upon what other people choose to define it as.

This happens frequently enough. The examples I gave? People thought Buckleyite Conservatism was conservative, the Moral Majority was moral and the 20th Century Tea Party was going to be the ‘throw ’em overboard’ that the 18th Century Tea Party was. People joined expecting one thing, discovered it was not and quit. One must always check whether their organization is, indeed, as advertised.

But as I just showed, in the context of a totalitarian state, one must be VERY careful of which political beliefs they claim. If there is not already an established definition then you’re setting yourself up for an involuntary Talmudic reinterpretation of who you are.