Isabella Miller-Jenkins, Christian Nationalism, And The Presidential Election

[Shana A]

Isabella Miller-Jenkins, Christian Nationalism, And The Presidential Election (+)
by: Autumn Sandeen
Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 18:00:00 PM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=13F5E38414C9727F70C2D5DA2147702A?diaryId=7462

After eight years of having a conservative, evangelical Christian in the White House, I haven't been very comfortable with the idea that if elected President, Sen. McCain will have chosen to have an uncurious, anti-intellectual, conservative Pentecostal a heartbeat away from assuming the most powerful executive position in the world.

I was reminded what I specifically am concerned about is while watching CSPAN-3 this past weekend. There was a book tour event from 2006 that was being replayed where Michelle Goldberg was talking about her book Kingdom Coming: The Rise Of Christian Nationalism. Without going into a lot of detail, the book addresses how Christian Nationalists, while being only about 15% or less of the American population, have permeated all three branches of the federal government beyond their population numbers. Their basic philosophy of Christian Nationalists, as described by Goldberg, can be defined as:

    [T]he "Christian worldview" that envisions Christianity governing "every aspect of public and private life, and [holds] that all -- government, science, history, culture, and relationships -- must be understood according to the dictates of scripture." Christian nationalists have "biblically correct positions on every issue, from gay marriage to income tax rates."

[NicholeW.]

hmm, a comment, here and there:

The striking thing about all of the rhetoric of these "Christian Nationalists" is that they talk constantly about God's plan and God's will and God's power; yet their actions show again and again they've no deep belief in any of the three.
Instead they consistently believe that they must enforce the "power" of an omnipotent God because that God is incapable of doing so Himself.

Does it strike them at all, that if they are correct and God has a plan for Isabelle's life and the plan is truly what they believe it is and that God truly has the power they claim, that the plan will come to be no matter what a court decides, what law enforcement and the courts enforce or do not?

These "believers" apparently are not believers in God, rather believers in their own usurpation of God's will. 

They prove again and again that their "faith" isn't nearly as visible and large as a mustard seed. Straining at gnats they swallow camels and wonder that they are not believed? Why would they imagine that we should believe them when they haven't even found the ability to believe their own doctrines?

Nikki