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Margaret Bauer, Editor
Faith and Heritage: A Christian Nationalist Anthology
Allentown, Pa.: Antelope Hill Publishing, 2021

Christian Nationalism is a new theological movement which seeks to harmonize the Christian religion with white advocacy. Between 2011 and 2019, Christian Nationalist theologians expressed their ideas on a website called Faith and Heritage between 2011 and 2019. A selection of essays from the site was published as an anthology by Antelope Hill Publishing in 2021. It is filled with wisdom and is well worth reading. Theology matters. As Rousas J. Rushdoony wrote:

The abstraction of doctrine and theology from life has been one of the great disasters in the life of the church. Richard Weaver saw clearly that Ideas have Consequences. To abstract Biblical faith from life to the classroom, and to limit its relevance to the private realm, is one of the great evils of the modern church.[1]

The Christian Nationalist theologians in this anthology are clearly influenced by Rushdoony, and he is extensively quoted. Rushdoony was not a white advocate, although his theological ideas do indeed support the existence of white, European-derived peoples.

Alienist vs. Kinist Christianity

Christian Nationalists point out that that modern Christianity has divided into alienist and kinist branches. The alienists support a view which is ultimately anti-white and hostile to nation-states. Taken to its extreme form, alienist Christianity is one which denies even the existence of biological sex differences.

The Dispensationalist branch of alienism is the most devastating. In Palestine, the world’s oldest Christian community is being brutalized by ethnonationalist Jews who are cheered on and supported by white American Christians. Dispensationalism holds that racial Jews have a special place in the divine order and that the modern Zionist Entity is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

Dispensationalism is not true, however. Even the Dispensationalist postulation of a uniquely Jewish claim to any part of the Levant or anything in the Bible is faulty. As the Christian Nationalist theologian David Carlton writes:

Ironically, most white Christians have as good a claim on ancient Israel as anyone. I’m not invoking far-fetched theories derived from specifically Christian Identity or British/Anglo-Israel claims, either. It seems that, during the time of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid overloads of the Israelites, the Israelites established a pact with the Spartans based upon the fact that both the Israelites and the Spartans were descended from Abraham (1 Macc. 12:21). The Spartans (sometimes referred to as the Lacedemonians) are portrayed in the movie 300 for their heroic stand against the Persians at Thermopylae, and are a major pillar of European civilization. If the Spartans are descendants of Abraham, as the ancient Israelites believed, then it would seem logical that all Europeans are likewise descended from Abraham. This could explain at least in part how Japeth (the general ancestor of Europeans) dwells in the tents of Shem, according to Noah’s prophecy in Gen. 9:27. It is a truly sad irony that European Christians expend much energy lobbying for a group of people with a less clear claim to descent from the ancient Israelites than they have themselves.[2]

Another version of alienism is what I call Negro Worship. This form of idolatry is laughable in that it turns the most criminally dangerous and child-like portion of humanity into gods, but nevertheless exerts great power over white minds. An example of this foolishness is the writings of the black liberation theologian James Cone. In his book Black Theology and Black Power (1969), he writes:

For white people, God’s reconciliation in Jesus Christ means that God has made black people a beautiful people; and if they are going to be in relationship with God, they must enter by means of their black brothers, who are a manifestation of God’s presence on earth. The assumption that one can know God without knowing blackness is the basic heresy of the white churches. They want God without blackness, Christ without obedience, love without death. What they fail to realize is that in America, God’s revelation on earth has always been black, red, or some other shocking shade, but never white. Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of man’s depravity . . . Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).[3]

The kinist branch of Christianity allows for salvation through one’s family and nation. Throughout the book, various Bible verses are quoted which show that Christianity does indeed accept the existence of different nations and that these distinctions don’t undermine the religion’s spiritual unity.

The most important verse is Acts 17:26:

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

The Apostle Paul also emphasized national distinctions when he expressed frustration with the people of Crete when writing to Titus:

One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.

In other words, Paul is advising Titus to understand the differences between people and adjust his message accordingly. He also encouraged the people of Crete to avoid Jewish myths.

Nil Desperandum shows that it is pure fantasy to imagine that the peoples of Liberia and Guatemala would, post-redemption,

be unaffected by their lower average IQ or their native propensity to the sins of violence, and so be as prosperous and righteous as we would expect a European Christian nation to be. While such a view is to be commended for its high view of divine efficacy, it can be criticized for its deficient understanding of the faculties with which God has endowed other peoples, in addition to its implicit affirmation that God will wipe out these characteristics to create utterly “new” spiritual beings, rather than redeem them as they are.[4]

Faith and Heritage’s authors read Counter-Currents, and Nil Desperandum argues against the ideas in Gregory Hood’s essay “Why Christianity Can’t Save Us.” The most important point Desperandum makes is that universal moralism is of absolute importance, and white advocates cannot ignore this.

Universal Morality Before a Simplistic Worldview

The importance of universal morality dovetails with the ongoing failures of the American military. Ehud Would writes about the immorality of an influential strain of thought which has poisoned the American War Machine, coming from the pen of Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman: killology. In the mid-1990s, Grossman wrote a book called On Killing which explored the United States Army’s methods of training its soldiers to kill perfect strangers more efficiently. Within the “killology” philosophy is the idea that there are “sheep” (the public) who need protection from “wolves” (some enemy). The protection is provided by “sheepdogs” (the military). Grossman’s simplistic framing of the moral order of military operations has created dismal military leaders such as former Secretary of Defense “Mad Dog” Mattis, who said “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

Mattis’s Grossman-influenced worldview is as simplistic as it is stupid. The politics of war involve the complexities of several societies locked in battle for a period of time based on ephemeral political circumstances. The nuances and facets of war therefore require a view that goes beyond mere killing. Another overly simplistic view along the lines of killology is game theory, which encourages unattached men to seek to seduce women through social interactions that are akin to a computer hack or a video game cheat code.

Theology is very important. Puzzling out the moral order from the chaos of society gives clarity to people in all walks of life. A theological look at white advocacy which is free of the chains of that illicit second constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the pseudo-religion of Negro Worship is absolutely critical for such an understanding. The essays in this anthology may thus very well represent the seeds of a new spiritual awakening.

Notes

[1] Rousas John Rushdoony, The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church, third edition (Vallecito, Calif.: Ross House Books, 1998), p. 1.

[2] Margaret Bauer (ed.), Faith and Heritage: A Christian Nationalist Anthology

(Allentown, Pa.: Antelope Hill Publishing, 2021), p. 32.

[3] Ibid., p. 332.

[4] Ibid, p. 101.