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When God Hates
There has been a seismological shift in evangelical theology that has seen it’s culmination of thought and action this year.
What we have seen is the end of Christianity in America and the rise of Americanism. By this I mean there are millions of Americans that attend church services each week, that vote in accordance to the Bible, and want to live a “traditional” lifestyle. However, none of this is Christian. Further, their actions, and beliefs betray the idea of Jesus as the Messiah, and supplant him with America. Rather than understand the meaning of the cross, and a man that was put to death by the government for loving the sick, caring for the rejected, and calling for the fall of empire building, they have wed themselves fully to the nation state. Now, in full disclosure, churches have been flirting with, and embraced these ideas before. In the Middle Ages there was the full idea that salvation could come when Christendom extended across the known world, it was bloody, it was despicable, and it was wrong. It then came to pass in the era of Protestant reform as nation state leaders would switch religious affiliation to gain territory, or go to war.
However what we have seen in America over the last four years has been Robert Bellah’s proposition of civil religion begun so entwined with the church, that the Church has ceased to exist. In saying this, I do clarify, there are some people…
