{"id":187,"date":"2022-01-26T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T00:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.193.40.20\/greggfriend-wp\/?p=187"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:09:57","slug":"christian-nationalism-pondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"\u201cChristian Nationalism\u201d Pondering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this blog, I try to emphasize that we need to be careful calling people \u201cheretics\u201d whenever we disagree on minor theological points. I view the creeds as a pattern for determining orthodoxy or the major theological points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, I have been pondering about the growth of \u201cChristian Nationalism\u201d in America and other countries. To me, \u201cChristian Nationalism\u201d seems to violate the themes of Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, and other letters from Paul. It seems to degrade outsiders as less than \u201cmade in the image of God.\u201d It seems to violate the overall teaching of Jesus. It seems to violate justice and mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am concerned about the widespread subtle teaching of \u201cChristian Nationalism\u201d in the church and mission organizations. I am saddened that many pastors do not confront \u201cChristian Nationalism\u201d within their congregations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First posted January 26, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog, I try to emphasize that we need to be careful calling people \u201cheretics\u201d whenever we disagree on minor theological points. I view the creeds as a pattern for determining orthodoxy or the major theological points. But, I have been pondering about the growth of \u201cChristian Nationalism\u201d in America and other countries. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}