re: Are you an unashamed Christian Nationalist?

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l'm a proud Christian Nationalist, my inalienable rights come from the sovereign Creator of the undefinable reality we exist in

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There is no problem in the philosophy that natural rights derive from God or in the philosophy that natural rights derive from several core freedom concepts that are derived from thousands of years of shared human experience, without belief in God. That question does not have to be resolved, and the result is the same.

The issue is in the implementation of a system to assign power to individual people in our organized society and the designation of what powers those individuals can wield.

The modern American concept of “Christian Nationalism” is a radical idea that elected political leaders can use the power of the State to impose upon all persons their own versions of whatever they declare is the will of God. That leads invariably to extreme and supreme power to oppress anyone who does not subscribe to their personal religious vision.

This isn’t new. In the England prior to the American Revolution, the Church of England assigned both political and religious power to the King. Our founding fathers found this merger of political and religious power to be untenable. That’s why our Constitution does not merge State and religious authority, and our founders eschewed any such merger. The State is the State. Religious entities are free to operate separately.

This new idea of “Christian Nationalism” is an effort by individuals who want personal power to cloak their authority in religious authority. It is very radical for America. It is designed as a strategy to seize state power.

You are being manipulated by the cheap appeal to Christian authority.