Non Sequitur
Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 12:07PM
Embryo Parson in Christian Culture, Christian Nationalism, Christian Pacifism, Christian Resistance Theory and Praxis, Culture Wars, Political Theory and Praxis, Western Culture

"When Jesus told the Roman governor Pontus Pilate that his kingdom was not *of* this world, he closed the door on any possibility of a worldly Christian nation or empire.

There is the peaceable kingdom of Christ and there are the warring nations of this world, and there can be no conflation of the two.”  - Brian Zahnd

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is pure rubbish.  It simply does not follow either logically or exegetically (and hence a non sequitur) that because Christ's kingdom is "not of this world" the door is closed to the possibility of a Christian nation.  We currently live in a dialectical eschatological tension between the "already" and "not yet", and in accordance with this the possibility of a Christian nation cannot be foreclosed.   One does not need to be a postmillennialist to hold this position.  More importantly, when we consider all the alternatives, a Christian nation emerges as the best of all possible states.  

"What *do* they teach them at these schools"?

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