The Nihil Rule

By this sign, Conquer! Something was in the air this week as we got hit by Christian Nationalism from multiple fronts: The Gottesdiesnt Crowd:  TGC 232 — Christian Nationalism Stone Choir:  Christian Nationalism Is Submission to God Issues Etc.:  3054. Christian Nationalism – Andrew Walker, 11/1/22 Dr. Jordan Cooper  What is the Deal with Christian Nationalism? and Matthew Cochran caught it a week in advance,  14 Points of Christian Nationalism – A Draft Your humble host received TGC and Stone Choir with great joy and mustered his way through Issues and Cooper. Receive the fruit of my labors.  The Gottesdienst Crowd  Rev. Braaten with Rev. Ramirez Nationalism is a natural extension of kith and kin. It's Godly. One of the big points Ramirez made is we need to speak clearly between the 19th century definition of Nationalism and the word as we use it today. In the 19th century it was simply flipping the switch from monarchism to popular vote. By hijacking...

"So if it's from the past there's always something sort of wrong with it okay and so you know if you're doing something that's kind of old you feel sort of guilty about it in a certain way or you feel the need to - I mean just look at some of our bulletins! We're always explaining things. Why do we do that, right? There are lots of there are lots of places where there are complex rituals that no one explains. I mean no one when you go into a baseball stadium no one says here's the infield fly rule. Here are the gestures that will help you determine how that's going to play out when it does occur, and this is the year in which the infield fly rule was put forth in major league baseball, and no one does that. Even though it could have a lot to do with what you're about to see. We spend all this time explaining what we do, and I think we partly do that because we feel awkward about it because we all feel like it's not really contemporary. I mean t...