The Case for Christian Nationalism | Stephen Wolfe

Join us for an enlightening episode as we sit down with Dr. Stephen Wolfe, author of the thought-provoking book, "The Case for Christian Nationalism." Hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), this episode delves into the controversial yet compelling arguments presented in Wolfe's book.
Dr. Wolfe discusses the concept of Christian nationalism, exploring how it aligns with traditional Christian political thought and the American founding principles. He explains his vision of a homogenous society that orders earthly life towards heavenly ideals, a notion grounded in theological anthropology. Wolfe also addresses the criticisms and challenges his ideas have faced, providing a robust defense of his viewpoints.
Listeners will gain insight into the historical and philosophical underpinnings of Christian nationalism, as well as its implications for modern governance and society. Whether you agree or disagree, this episode promises a rich, intellectual discourse on a topic that is shaping contemporary political debates.
Tune in to explore the intersections of faith, politics, and society with one of today's most provocative conservative thinkers.
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Articles: americanreform...

[@CoyTheobalt]

Extremely fearful for his daughters and the years of therapy they will require upon the realization that their father was at heart dark, twisted, misogynistic and fundamentally evil.

[@benharmon1211]

They would probably much prefer a low test passive father instead

[@CoyTheobalt]

@@benharmon1211 I think women don’t want fathers who they are scared of, or ones who force a narrative that discounts women in society by telling them they should only be homemakers based upon an irrelevant fairy tale book . I dunno maybe someone should Ask them? This has been the reply I 99 times out of a hundred receive when I ask. It seems you perhaps draw an incorrect correlation with testosterone levels somehow. I’d do some independent research and analysis perhaps.

[@tomnanD3]

CN is not forcing your beliefs on others? Enacting laws based on those beliefs is doing exactly that.

[@cellospot]

What a joke. Look, you vote what you believe, no matter what that is. If you believe in yourself as your god, then a woman (since I'm a woman), for example, you will be pro-abortion, because you only care about yourself and your feelings and your desires. You don't think that putting into place laws based on that kind of anthropocentrism is you putting your beliefs into laws and forcing that onto people who don't agree with you? You don't think you do the same thing?

[@marchess286]

All law forces beliefs

[@tomnanD3]

@@marchess286 Such an absurd statement.

[@marchess286]

@@tomnanD3 - please offer an argument that my statement is incorrect.

[@user-71435]

@@marchess286 Correct. First there are value systems, and then those value systems are enshrined in law. I think after a very long time has passed, people forget that it was the value system that came first. That is where we're at right now. We've all forgotten or been lied to about our history.

[@quantumlogix7209]

Where has the peoples brain gone? 😱

[@tomnanD3]

Your attempt to put a kinder gentler face on your bigotry fails spectacularly.

[@cellospot]

Yes, bigotry, just like BLM, antifa, Islam, CCP, and so on, because all of those wish for the best for all people.

[@tomnanD3]

@@cellospot YOUR bigotry is also on display, as is your ignorance.

[@marchess286]

@@tomnanD3 - I didn't hear any bigotry from him, although you do seem to be bigoted against Christians.

[@tomnanD3]

@@marchess286 You didn't listen very closely. Apparently.

[@marchess286]

@@tomnanD3 - u have no answer so you throw a hissy fit. Predictable.

[@janiecestrickland4416]

Note his reaction to George Orwell's 1984. The world he imagines is one where fear and cruelty will compell faith. He seems to be dismissive of Catholicism but Church history will show that the church engaged in abject terror with same mindset. He wants to circumvent God's free will. He wants the behavior and pretense of faith without the actual moment of conversion. This is actually against the precepts of Christ.

[@XN_Pulse]

It appears that this will be the only comment that will affirm Christian Nationalism. Great work!

[@4jeffinseattle]

rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism (Wikipedia).The word nationalism is NEVER mentioned in Scripture. Theocracy ( example: the state of Iran).

[@janiecestrickland4416]

He's terrifying. He tells a lie that aligns itself with 'Biblical' truth so closely it would deceive the casual observer. He's more intellectual than the average American Christian. He literally said the nation will order people to the gospel. That is impossible and the absolute antithesis of the Great Commission. He has no heart for salvation. He wants to control behavior. Laws control behavior. The only directive the Christian has is to bring people to the saving knowledge of Christ. When you add to the gospel, you change it's meaning and purpose.

[@thewillkessler]

I only made it to 16:28. The good doctor just finished describing the main justifications Al-Qaeda uses as an answer to the question, what is CN? The irony is so blatant that it must take considerable effort to ignore.

[@cellospot]

Christianity and Islam are radically different. May want to do your research on that.

[@2024nehemiah]

Interesting. Have any opinions that you didn’t get from public school and CNN?

[@marwar819]

@@cellospot Both are about indoctrination, control and power.

[@Beardman29]

These CN's are forgetting the Pilgrims, the original founders of this country, were fleeing government religious coersion in England. Catholics were violently persecuted during that time, as well.

[@tomnanD3]

There is no case for CN. NONE.

[@cellospot]

You know, as the country continues to descend into secularism and it gets crazier and crazier, more people will start waking up and realizing that atheism and secularism has let them down. It may not be a huge group of people, but there will be a surge in Christianity. And, people vote what they believe in. That's democracy at work, baby!

[@hammer6198]

​@@cellospotgood comment!

[@pjschuster61]

@@cellospot No, it isn’t really, when huge sums of money are used to push your agenda despite what the majority of citizens want. I don’t need a bible to tell me what is moral & right. Most everything can be reduced to Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That’s all you need.

[@tomnanD3]

Policing atheism. Well, there it is.

[@leverettrob]

ISS giving a voice for xenophobia and racism?

[@hammer6198]

You don't have to accept us! and you don't have to accept you!

[@StudentDad-mc3pu]

And while you are at it, repeal the 2nd.

[@DarrellStevensSr-di2bl]

CN is NOT something we should support. It is not Biblical, I FOLLOW the Bible, not theologians, especially John Calvin, who was NOT a follower of Jesus.

[@leepretorius4869]

1:08:29 but what if Sunday is not the sabbath, and some Christians don’t want a Sunday to be understood as a sabbath? Also, would like your views on apartheid South Africa functioning in a comparable way?

[@cellospot]

Sunday, in Christian theology, is considered the 8th day, the day of the Resurrection, the eternal Pascha. Christ, the spiritual sun, the Son of God, is the Alpha and the Omega, which is also why Sunday is both the 8th day and the 1st day of the week. Saturday is the sabbath, but we're not Jews, so we don't have our primary weekly holy day on Saturday. Christ lifts us beyond this world into heaven, which is why we have Sunday as the day we celebrate his Resurrection. The Jews, in that they don't believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah, nor His resurrection, are stuck in this world, waiting, waiting. So they maintain Saturday as the sabbath. I'm coming from the perspective of Orthodoxy, which is the origin of all Christianity.

[@marchess286]

​@@cellospot- the Jews believe the "righteous of all nations have a share in the world to come". They also believe messianic times will be a departure from the worlds present reality of bloody power struggles and suffering. The Christian picture of Jesus as God and Messiah' didn't change that reality. So while Alpha and Omega is nice language the whole world is still "waiting".

[@marwar819]

@@cellospot" Christ lifts us beyond this world into heaven". Not this world so much. More like beyond our limited selves, our selfish negativism, to be better people. Heaven and hell are here on earth. Whatever, the ugly part of Christian Nationalism is the evangelical part - forcing it on others.

[@marwar819]

@@cellospot If that is your belief, fine. Just don't be soooo self-righteous and force it on others.

[@evansfanily7510]

You will fail. This is the death gasp of the old ways.

[@dan9948]

Trans affirmation is only "degenerate" in the same way that blood transfusions are "degenerate" - That is, only by some religious idea that does not accord with modern health. It's not a matter of opinion. THAT is the danger of allowing religion into any sort of nationalism: allowing verified, demonstrable harm to persist, because of beliefs rooted in mysticism. But where that danger is not present (e.g. pledge of allegiance, private schools, etc), I think the idea of exception vs default is intriguing and very thought provoking. Thank you for sharing this and working hard to explain CN concepts carefully and in detail.

[@marchess286]

@@dan9948 - please explain how "modern health" argues for the proposition that a man can become a woman or that sex is immutable from conception.

[@marwar819]

Secularism is indoctrination, i.e. militarism brain-washes men that they are great if they give their life for the country. It's madness.

[@CMA418]

Unfortunately, you have a clear conflict of interest here. As you would enjoy a comfortable status in such a nation. Plus, you’re literally capitalizing off it. (Unless you’re donating all your earnings, which is beyond my knowledge, but the first point stands either way I believe) Granted, that doesn’t mean that all or any of the ideas you present are necessarily without merit. But I’m sure you’d agree taking the salesman’s word for it without doing one’s own research, checking out the competition, looking at testimonies, would be unwise when buying a car, even more so when building a nation.

[@quantumlogix7209]

CN is like televangelist 2.0

[@xxAMJONIxx]

Cringe

[@josephm2357]

Very good discussion. Thank you!

[@EducatingForLiberty]

Glad you enjoyed it! Any topics you would like us to discuss in future episodes?

[@josephm2357]

​@@EducatingForLiberty I am interested in how Everson v. Board of Education (1947) Supreme Court decision had a role in expunging American public life of religion and true morality. Can you cover the downstream effects of that decision? It seems that it paved the way for the establishment of the modern woke pseudoreligion and disestablished general christianity. Other interesting topics are education during early america versus today, education of the founding fathers, and just generally how life was back in early america.

[@tomnanD3]

Trans people are not evil, Dr. Wolfe. YOU ARE.

[@cellospot]

No, you're right, trans people aren't evil, but the ideology of transgenderism is. It's incredibly destructive. And I can say this with a full voice because I'm a detransitioner. However, people can become evil, as demons, when they align themselves so deeply with evil ideas. Look through history and you'll find plenty of people who were so possessed by an evil spirit, so to say, that they were consumed to commit truly heinous acts against others -- ever read Gulag Archipelago, for a relatively contemporary example?

[@marchess286]

Are those who want to allow public schools to not tell parents if their child has adopted another gender identity evil?

[@hammer6198]

​@@marchess286Exactly🎉

[@tomnanD3]

@@marchess286 And this happening where?

[@marchess286]

@@tomnanD3 - see the 07.16.24 NPR story on the law signed by ca governor newsome protecting school staff from having to comply with policies in various districts requiring notice to parents of children expressing trans identities.

[@tomnanD3]

Typically, you conflate "logic" and "reason" with religion. That only works on the gullible. You do have a majority of the gullible in the US. But, that majority is shrinking.

[@CMA418]

Is it shrinking though? Don’t lesser-thinking people generally have more children? Especially lesser-thinking people who believe they’ve been given a divine command to reproduce? While more thoughtful people are less likely to reproduce, given the apparent circumstance of life?

[@armandolarade7861]

Religion is a personal choice, it's like a hobby, if you like it, go ahead partake in it as much as you want. Aside from the Bible, a very old book with major problems, there's no evidence that a God exist up in the sky, there's also very little evidence for Jesus himself so, for religious people to want to impose their book of fairytales as the law of the land is very rich. According to the Bible, Jesus taught his disciples to spread his teachings, he never said for anyone to be coerced or forced to believe...that's why CN is wrong, CN is the same as sharia law in Islam.

[@marwar819]

Silly analogy, religion is not like a hobby.

[@kennethobrien8386]

He said nothing!

[@marchess286]

Im an Orthodox Jew. I may or may not agree with all of this gentleman's positions, but he's certainly not, imho, a bigot, as some commenters seem to believe.

[@schooloftheprophets1844]

This man is speaking as the serpent, bringing deception into the ranks to confuse and destroy souls. Jesus says- give to Cesar what is Cesar’s, and God what is God’s. The whole foundation of our country is diametrically opposed to the style of government this man wishes to bring about/ the deception is to bring about enforcement of religious beliefs by law, so then persecution begins.

[@CoyTheobalt]

Thanks for telling us about you.

[@marchess286]

@@CoyTheobalt - you are welcome

[@schooloftheprophets1844]

@@marchess286 he is clearly not an open bigot, needless to say, Jesus points out, at His return, His second coming, there was a large class of followers who believing they were doing Gods Will that they had a right to heaven, and as they made their way- Jesus said plainly- “Get away from me, I DON’T KNOW YOU”. So we see just because he sincerely believes he is right, has no bearing when it comes to the Truth. Jesus says plainly, give to Cesar what is Cesar’s, and to God what is God’s. This is how Americas constitutional Republic was founded, separating the two tablets- freedom of religion, freedom of conscience to worship God according to the conviction in our hearts, vs this man’s anticipation of a glorious religious awakening that will have to use force, to regulate morality. Literally admitting the silent part outloud. In the judgement which has already begun in heaven, this man will find that without repentance and forgiveness, you will never change anyone’s heart, and as force is used by the state, the hearts of all is signed in blood. Which is the water that flowed out of Jesus side, that will flow to bring about the latter rain. Read “THE GREAT CONTROVERSY” chapters 35-42 and you will understand, walking with Revelation and the book of Daniel, how all is to unfold.

[@tomnanD3]

We need a Christian Prince to lead and inspire. Like...Trump? SMFH...

[@bl5752]

This is fascism, not democracy. Look it up.