What is your view of Christian Nationalism?
As a Christian, I am in no way in favor of theocracy, however, I do believe Christians have a duty to be involved in the affairs of society to make the world a better place, just like everyone else. In that sense, there is no, or at least should not be, a separation of church and state.
But let's be honest, the term Christian Nationalism has been coined by the Left to be interpreted Nazi Fascist as it has become one of those dog whistle terms to identify evil in the world.
However, if being a Nationalist is Hitler like, something you refuse to participate in because you are soooo much more righteous than those concerned with their nation, why do you participate in politics? Are you there to promote global interests instead of national interests, or something else altogether?
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The Pilgrims came to America as the first settlers on the eastside to escape an oppressive theocratic monarchy composed of King James 1 and the Archbishop of Canterbury in England and William the Silent in the Netherlands.
Later in the 17th Century, however, the Founders, each one a classical liberal or libertarian (little "L") believed a newly formed nation called the United States of America should neither dictate nor prevent whatever religion the people chose to practice. The people could form whatever little theocracy their society wanted to have, but the Founders did not want them to be able to impose those theocracies on anybody else even though the Founders were Christian and so were those little theocracies.
They firmly believed America was and should remain a Christian nation and thus would respect protect the right of all others to believe whatever they believed so long as they too did not try to force anyone who did not share their faith to participate in it.
Separation of Church and State meant that the State would not be allowed to dictate religious beliefs or practices to any citizen and no religious organization would be allowed to have authority over the people via the central government.
Thus we have in the body of the original Constitution that there will be no religious test to hold public office and in the Bill of Rights, the central government would protect everyone's right to think, believe, speak, worship as he or she chose.
The Christian nationalist embraces all the religious concepts that went into the concepts and structure of the new nation and agrees with the Founders that the Constitution would be effective only for a religious/Christian and moral people even though some might be and would be allowed to be non Christian. Christians would have every right to petition their government for what was important to them along with everybody else having such right.
For that reason I define Christians nationals as those who love America and Americans and believe Christian (or any other religion's) symbols, traditions, festivals, worship, prayer should not be regulated or oppressed or suppressed in any way by the federal government. They will run for office, and will express their faith freely in how that affects their decision in their official duties. And if that is not satisfactory to their constituents, then they will be voted out of office.
But they should never be prohibited from expressing what they believe.
