LOL at the uptick in followers.

Fair Warning: I believe that Cultural American Patriotic Churchianity (CAPC for short - aka White Evangelicalism/Christian Nationalism) has caused more damage to the body of Christ and the credibility of the church than CRT ever has or will.

It's been a systemic problem since the founding of the country (indeed, before the founding of the country) and has contributed to the church being complicit in chattel slavery, Jim Crow, cointelpro, redlining and a host of other things the Bible condemns as sin.
The conflation of Christianity with Americanism since the founding of the country has left too many actual believers confusing love of country and culture with biblical Christianity (thus, in their minds, to fight against conservative political culture is also to fight against
what they think is biblical Christianity). It's part of what makes it okay to minimize the sins of men like Dabney while extolling his ability as a theologian in other areas, or minimizing it as him being 'a man of his time'. It also allows you to have an atheist speak at your
Christian conference while condemning your brother who holds different political views than you, but professes the same faith you do.

On the other side of the issue, the phrase 'black lives matter' is true because of the Imago Dei. Debate your momma about it if you disagree.
The organization Black Lives Matter™ is simply using black people to push forward an agenda that has very little to do with black lives, black communities and actual justice. Not the first time white liberals (the black women who started the organization are just tools...) have
used black faces to push an agenda that has little to do with actually helping black people while claiming that it does. CRT itself isn't a worldview, but ends up functioning like one if you try to frame EVERYTHING through it. Some of the things it points out are true.
But it offers no solutions other than oppressor and oppressed switching places. I have no interest in seeing white folks in the US get treated the same way black folks have been treated for centuries in the US. That retribution may 'feel good', but it will be judged and
condemned by God. And if you call yourself a Christian, this should have no place in your heart. Period. Do not be conformed to secular thinking on this (secular conservative or secular liberal). The pro-blackity-black person who hates 'white people' and 'white culture'
will be right next to the kinist, confederate flag waving, white pride, black person hating individual in the Lake of Fire because BOTH have failed to love their neighbor as themselves (1 John 3:4-10, Lev. 19:18). Too many Christians on both 'sides' have allowed
themselves to be carried away into a 'side' defined by secular discussions when the 'side' they should be defining their stance by scripture instead of culture or politics. The defining Christian ethic on these issues start with love and compassion (Eph. 4:32) and flow from
there to serve others. As @imcurtkennedy has rightly pointed out, NOTHING in scripture says that it's your responsibility to judge the validity of someone's lived experience first before you treat them as a brother or sister (or a neighbor) or tell them the 'real reason' for
what they have experienced in life. That's Americanism (both right and left) but it isn't of God or found in the scriptures. If your first allegiance is Christ, be more Christian than American or Black.

Let the smoke, pushback and unfollows come.

*watches numbers drop*

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Patriotism is an interesting concept in that it’s excepted to mean something positive to all of us and certainly seen as a morally marketable trait that can fit into any definition you want for it.+


Tolstoy, found it both stupid and immoral. It is stupid because every patriot holds his own country to be the best, which obviously negates all other countries.+

It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country’s interests at the expense of all other countries, employing any means, including war. It is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us+

My sincere belief is that patriotism of a personal nature, which does not impede on personal and physical liberties of any other, is not only welcome but perhaps somewhat needed.

But isn’t adherence to a more humane code of life much better than nationalistic patriotism?+

Göring said, “people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”+

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