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God-Given Rights and ‘Christian Nationalism’

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I’m okay with a Christian prince.

No doubt, but that suggests you'd be more at home in a monarchy, rather than a nation founded on the abolition of monarchical rule and the banning of titles of nobility.
 
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No doubt, but that suggests you'd be more at home in a monarchy, rather than a nation founded on the abolition of monarchical rule and the banning of titles of nobility.
Well, I see where being unequally yoked has gotten us.
 
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Well, I see where being unequally yoked has gotten us.
And I see that Christian Nationalism is not 'Christians who are patriotic', but Christians who want to eliminate the Constitution and replace our form of government with something else.
 
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The founding fathers of the USA disagree with that opinion.
They also disagreed that blacks should be free and women should be a part of self government. They were men, not infallible agents.
 
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And I see that Christian Nationalism is not 'Christians who are patriotic', but Christians who want to eliminate the Constitution and replace our form of government with something else.
Not necessarily.
 
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Seriously?
Seriously. Christians were all Roman Catholics back then, or Orthodox. Protestantism and the doctrine of Sola Scriptura weren't even thought of, much less in the extreme to which it has been carried by modern American Evangelicals.
 
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Seriously. Christians were all Roman Catholics back then, or Orthodox. Protestantism and the doctrine of Sola Scriptura weren't even thought of, much less in the extreme to which it has been carried by modern American Evangelicals.
Are you saying that Roman Catholics aren’t Christians?
 
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I thought that was your line, wanting only "Bible Christians" in government office.
I said Bible-believing. I’m certain that at least most Catholics believe the Bible.
 
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The progressive left is forcing the LGBTQIA+ agenda upon those who disagree with it.
It's apart of education and life. Some people are Gay , Lesbian, transgender and different sex orientation. That isn't the fault of the left. That's just true life. The only difference is that these people are coming out of the closet. Which isn't the left fault.
 
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I said Bible-believing. I’m certain that at least most Catholics believe the Bible.
My mistake. "Bible-believing" has become in many circles shorthand for conservative Evangelical Protestants who subscribe to literal inerrancy. But it is sloppy think to suppose it always means that
 
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My mistake. "Bible-believing" has become in many circles shorthand for conservative Evangelical Protestants who subscribe to literal inerrancy. But it is sloppy think to suppose it always means that
I just posted it at face value.
 
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The progressive left is forcing the LGBTQIA+ agenda upon those who disagree with it.
No, they aren't. They are just trying to get several minorities treated like human beings.
 
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Hopefully someday every government institution is led by Bible-believing Christians, and every law is based on biblical principles. Trying to be unequally yoked with pagan ideas has proven to be disastrous.
You guys get together, pool your money, buy Greenland and have your Bible-believing Christian utopia. I'll even donate.
 
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It's apart of education and life. Some people are Gay , Lesbian, transgender and different sex orientation. That isn't the fault of the left. That's just true life. The only difference is that these people are coming out of the closet. Which isn't the left fault.
When parental rights and parental consent are ignored on this topic in the schools, when private businesses are harassed and nearly forced into performing a service that goes against their religious convictions, then you have seen the agenda of the LGBTQIA+ forced upon people.
 
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They also disagreed that blacks should be free and women should be a part of self government. They were men, not infallible agents.
Over more than a decade of reading conservative American Christian views I've found that many of them speak of your constitution and Bill of Rights as if they were sacred text and, your "Founding Fathers" as something akin to prophets.

This view seems to unconsciously trickle down to less extreme US Christians where there is a sense that the constitution is seen as fixed and unchangeable - not unlike their view of the Bible.

OB
 
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