As a "Christian people," we claim no power except that of example, persuasion, and prayer, BUT if we claim to be a "Christian nation," the power of the state is implied with all that entails — with the possible eventual repeat of persecutions and horrors that history has documented when church and state were conjoined. Many nationalists of every religious stripe harbor the same fantasy:
"If only we had the power to reform and purify the people (spiritually, biologically, morally, politically, scientifically, etc,) according to the dictates of our certainties, we could achieve our vision of higher purpose — our desired Utopia."If such power is acquired, thought and behavior reform agendas become paramount and normalized as Robert Jay Lifton documents in Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry.
I have already discussed in several posts2 what I consider to be the illusions and delusions of Christian Nationalism. And yes, most of us want the escalating corruptions and conspiracies to end. We want people of integrity and virtue to serve us in maintaining civic peace and order, but virtue and integrity are not exclusive to Christians. Our nations are made up of many truth-seekers striving to do good according to their own understandings, studies, and conscience, yet there are also truth-twisters and truth-destroyers. In recent months, we have seen increasingly aggressive rhetoric, not only of some Christian Nationalists pursuing government-assisted reformation and revival, but of other groups touting the need for mandatory re-education, reset, and rejection of "old culture and customs."
Let us please, never forget, "We are Christian people" who cherish agency where:
11 We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may (Pearl of Great Price | Articles of Faith 1:11)._-----------------------------------------------------------------/
4 We believe that religion is instituted of God; and that men are amenable to him, and to him only, for the exercise of it, unless their religious opinions prompt them to infringe upon the rights and liberties of others; but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men, nor dictate forms for public or private devotion; that the civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience; should punish guilt, but never suppress the freedom of the soul (Doctrine and Covenants 134:4).
1. CHRISTIANS TAKE OVER LONDON | THIS NATION BELONGS TO JESUS
(Evangelist Daniel Chand | Nov 27, 2025 | Time 16:34) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CaIsr8VOs0
2. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-troubling-trend.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/back-to-future-again.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/2-understanding-separation-church-state.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/4-church-and-state-discerning.htm,
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/5-church-state-christian-nationalism.html
