Today, I received a newsletter in my email from GabNews, a service of 20,000,000 member Gab, the conservative American social media site. Note that this newsletter is delivered to all 20,000,000 members plus non-member subscribers. The article is lengthy, so I have only posted a few excerpts:

?Every Christian is a Christian Nationalist? By: E. Wils

?Despite Christians instructing the magistrate on how they must govern to honor God being the historic protestant position of political theory, many have attempted to malign Christians with the label of ?Christian Nationalist? in an attempt to disarm them from public discourse on politics. This term has scared many Christians and caused them to reject Christian Nationalism. This article will respond to some of the major concerns many Christians have with what they perceive Christian Nationalism to be.?

?Christian nationalism can be summarized by this: God instituted governments to promote good and punish evil and it is a duty of the Christian to inform the magistrate of what God calls good and evil. This is because Romans 13 details that the government is established by God and is His minister. The word ?minister? used here is the same word used for both deacon and servant? ?diakonos?; the Christian then must inform the rulers on how they are to honor God with laws that promote good and punish evil.?

?Governments have been ordained by God to promote good and punish evil and they do this by instituting just laws. Since good and evil are defined by God, it is the Christian?s duty to inform rulers on how laws are to honor Christ.?

?The distinction between Christian Nationalism and Theocracy can be made because Christian Nationalism is about enforcing the second table of the Law and not the first. When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) the laws were divided into two tables. The first table, commandments one through three, dealt with God?s relationship with mankind and proper worship. This is administered through the body of Christ with the Church. The second table of the law, commandments four through ten, deals with man?s relation to his fellow man. This is basic civil law which is the duty of the government to enact. Since Christian Nationalism is about proper enforcement of the second table of the law Christians from varying traditions can unite around it as it does not involve the institution of laws regarding proper worship.?


The last time I looked, the first tablet of the Ten Commandments contained Commandments 1-4 (?laws regarding proper worship?) and the second tablet contained Commandments 5-10. A strategy vital to the Beast Sunday law agenda is revealed here: make the claim that the Fourth Commandment is part of the six that concern loving your neighbour rather than part of the first four concerning loving God. This justifies the enforcement of the mark as part of the ecumenical social gospel.