Showing posts with label Nationalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nationalism. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Where then the motherland?

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The point, in short, is that though I firmly reject the messianic, militaristic nationalism sketched earlier, I do not disavow a judicious, c...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

The "sacrifice" of war

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Accordingly, we commonly say that in war, we “sacrifice” our sons and daughters. Taken at all seriously, this amounts to child sacrifice—a pra...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

The glory of war?

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As the early twentieth-century cultural critic Randolph Bourne memorably remarked, “War is the health of the State.” Nothing unites the atom...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Christian nationalism has a history

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Nationalism has been entangled with religion—or has served more or less directly as a religion—from its beginnings. Early nationalisms were ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

So who reigns?

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Other terms that we today traditionally associate with Christianity were also popular as part of imperial propaganda. In the broader Greco-R...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

A higher loyalty

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The ‘patriotism’ of the truth—seeker is antithetical to Rousseau’s civic option. The sole citizenship of the cleric is that of a critical hu...
Sunday, July 01, 2018

Bring out the stones!

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It's that time of year again when the christian nationalists get to turn the worship of God into the worship of country. Well, they alwa...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Can we do as well?

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Bonhoeffer consistently—from 1932 to the end of his life (thus before and after Hitler assumed power)—was strongly opposed to nationalism. H...