The Dead End of Catholic Nationalism
2023-07-20
[This article is adapted from a panel discussion on Christian Nationalism at Freedom Fest in Memphis on July 14, 2023. The other panelists were Norman Horn, Kerry Baldwin, and Alex Bernardo of the Libertarian Christian Institute. ]
The specter of Christian nationalism—variously defined—has become one of the current bogeymen to the Left. "Christian nationalism on the rise," reports National Public Radio, and The New Yorker asks "How Christian Is Christian Nationalism?" Some churches are even hosting workshops with names like "The Threat of White Christian Nationalism." Note the insertion of the term "white." An op-ed at The Salt Lake Tribune takes it a step further declaring at the US Supreme Court is now allied with "white male Christian nationalism" (emphasis added).
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Which Way America? An RPI Event
2023-07-19
These are trying times. The war party seems stronger than ever while the peace movement feels even more scattered.
Make no mistake: D.C. is hungry for war. The neocon plan has always been to defeat Russia using Ukraine as a proxy. It started with Victoria Nuland’s Ukrainian coup in 2014. Now that the proxy war has apparently failed, the neocons are in desperation mode—and they do not have a reverse gear.
If this seems like a bad dream, you are not alone. How does it make sense that more than 30 years after the fall of communism, we are closer to war with Russia than ever? And for what?
The war party seems to have all the money, with the NATO-funded think tanks, the media, most of D.C., and a good part of the brainwashed American public on its side. It may look hopeless, but we have one