Christian Nationalism

I'm reading a lot these days about Christian nationalism. What I've read so far reminds me of supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini and Islamist nationalism. Certainly, Jesus never commanded that His followers take over the government in His name.

Now we have the Oklahoma state superintendent of schools insisting that biblical indoctrination must be enforced in his state. How feeble is Christianity in Oklahoma that it requires the nanny state to back evangelism.

The superintendent cloaks his evangelism in the language of bible as history and culture. LOL!

As history, the Bible is terribly inaccurate, and you don’t need any more of an understanding of its contents to understand history in general than you do of any other major religious text.

As science, it is risible.

As literature, the Bible is nearly unreadable.

As moral philosophy, the lessons of the Bible range from inarticulately expressed versions of what can be found in many much better children’s books, to cultish insanity, to defenses of outright moral crimes such as genocide and mass rape.

One might also ask "which bible," since there were arbitrary decisions made by church elites as to which books the lay public would be allowed to read.

The founding fathers knew how divisive sectarian government was over centuries in Europe and how many people died in the name of Christ to enforce one or another "Christian" propaganda. It's bad for the country and it's bad for Christianity.

Jesus weeps.