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He seems to gladly embrace the label “Christian nationalist.” At the end he says to the man who asked the question: “I hope that makes sense.” Actually, it doesn’t make sense to me. Either the state privileges Christianity or it doesn’t. Either the United States is a Christian nation or it is nation defined by pluralism in which people with real religious differences lives together on equal footing. Mohler clearly wants the state to privilege one religion over others. He believes in religious toleration (Christians will tolerate other religions), but he does not seem to believe in democratic pluralism.
Even religious toleration will ultimately be unacceptable under the Christian Nationalists. How does one translate “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” into civic law while tolerating other gods? And we’ve already seen that they support Muslim bans and are unwilling to tolerate other views on homosexuality and other issues.
“Either the United States is a Christian nation or it is nation defined by pluralism in which people with real religious differences lives together on equal footing. ”
Since, as far as I can tell biblically, there can’t be any such thing as a “Christian nation,” I am glad that the other disjunct describes a circumstance in which genuine Christianity can flourish. Our pastors and teachers *must* devote our energy to preaching and teaching Jesus-following Christianity…rather than dwelling on the delusion that the kingdom of God can be achieved by earthly political power.