The Empty Gospel of Christian Nationalism

Imagine wrapping your entire political identity around being a Christian nationalist. You believe Christianity should be enmeshed with government. You vote based on single issues such as abortion. You believe prayer should be in schools, which also includes the Ten Commandments. You believe government should offer you vouchers so your child can attend Christian school.

Yet, when pushed on issues of morality and justice, you turn around and say, “This is not God’s kingdom on earth and we’re to follow the laws of the land.” You say the government has no duty to act. No duty to provide care. No duty to stop injustice. I suppose you only want a Christian government in name alone.

You want God in the government, but what does that actually even mean? You justify your inaction and your thoughts on what should happen to “the least of these.” Your pastor refuses to speak against this current administration and against these atrocities because they have their “Christian president.” You go about your Sunday sitting on the pews, chasing your weekly spiritual fix.

Meanwhile, you ignore the hungry, the immigrant, the homeless, the Palestinian. You say that “illegal aliens” deserve the concentration camps they’re sent to because they’re simply “illegal” by definition. You twist, you turn, you justify. And instead of acting as Jesus would, you act like your Old Testament God.

You’re okay with women and babies being left to die - mirroring the wrathful God who struck down children outside Israel. You’re okay with Palestinians facing genocide because your angry, Old Testament God allowed it. You look the other way, clinging to an ancient text penned by human hands, stripped of relevance for today. It’s wrong. No amount of justification can make this right. Repentance, true inward reflection, and love are the only things to right this. The majority of Christians today have truly taken God’s name in vain. You refuse to follow the words of Jesus and instead voted for your antichrist.

Yet, you still truly believe you have a leg to stand on as you perch in your churches hurling insults at the world around you, casting judgement and shutting out the screaming voices of the oppressed. It’s gross and it will now be the downfall of our nation. It’s past time to get Christianity out of this government. That is the only way our country will thrive. It's a hope I'll cling to until the day I die.