Corey J. Mahler — Comments

Baptists: ‘We lose down here.’

Magisterial Protestants: ‘Someone will.’

Historically and traditionally, one of the main points of science fiction has been exploring the interaction of human society and technology, often with an emphasis on what we should not do. Unfortunately, most moderns have taken science fiction as a roadmap for what we should do.

Individualism is what brought us here. Collectivism is the only way out. Baptist theology is inherently and inextricably individualist.

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I am convinced many (perhaps even most) Baptists actually want to lose — losing ‘vindicates’ their false beliefs with regard to Christianity and politics.

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A non-trivial percentage of those who eat döner kebab have (unwittingly) engaged in cannibalism.

This is not an invitation to debate — it is a statement of fact. If you do not baptize your children, then you deny that your children are part of a Christian nation, which means you cannot be a Christian Nationalist.

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I do not mean that the other traditions cannot play a role or cannot be part of the movement; I mean only that it is these two — alone — that have deep enough ties and strong enough convictions and doctrine to drive the movement onward as its beating heart.

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The leader of whatever concrete Christian Nationalist movement eventually (soon) arises in the American context will necessarily be either Lutheran or Presbyterian — the other traditions simply do not have what it will take to see this through.