IN PURSUIT OF A KINDER, GENTLER WORLD
God’s commands about how he wants his people to relate to each other and about how he wants them to do justice for others provide useful checklists for targeting the beliefs of Christian Nationalists. Americans who may not be confident in their ability to identify Christian Nationalists would do well to print copies of these commands and refer to them while watching or listening to the news about politics and government or listening to a sermon. They will be shocked to notice how often all politicians and some religious leaders violate these commands. It is as though they had never actually read the bible — except the parts that they choose to use to justify their movement.
Clearly, America would be a better place if Americans would obey God’s commands about how to relate to one another. Clearly America would be a better place if Americans pursued justice for one another. Clearly, the world would be kinder and gentler and more peaceful if all cultures would obey God’s commands about how they should relate to one another. Clearly Christian Nationalists do not understand that this is how God works.
God pursues peace through internal laws that control what people do with their bodies. Christian Nationalists pursue their idea of peace through legislation that demands willful obedience to religious rules. Dominionism demands physical obedience to man-made rules enforced by authoritarian leaders. This explains why Christian Nationalists put so much emphasis on law and order.
These two paradigms are totally different. God’s paradigm establishes peaceful relationships by internal (i.e. heart) control. Christian Nationalists believe they can establish control of the seven mountains of culture through legislation passed by authoritarian leaders. Not only are these paradigms different, they are diametrically opposed. Therein lies the conflict.
Since God and his laws do not change, Christian Nationalists must change before there will be any peace in America or in the world. God can and will do that by changing the hearts and minds of Christian Nationalists. All he needs is truthtellers to share the truth about their disobedience to his laws When men and women of good will and open hearts understand that this is what God wants to do and choose to cooperate with God by sharing truth, God will perform a miracle of changing hearts and minds.