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The weakening of natural and organic connections (family, nation, etc.) has spiritual implications. The goal is the subversion of Christian nations and the culture of Christendom. The ultimate target is Christianity itself.
The world into which we are born includes families, institutions and nations that are structured hierarchically. Likewise our duties within those structures (i. e., justice) are hierarchical in nature and flow outward in a series of concentric circles.
To live with piety is to accept our place in that structure of reality and favoring the near over the far.
The implication is that we have obligations to our families, neighbors and countrymen over strangers and foreigners. Our families and neighbors are more valuable than smartphones and cheap toys. Favoring the far-off over the nearby is impious.
We owe duties to our fathers because they are our fathers and to our fatherland because it is our fatherland. This is piety and gratitude.
Our Fathers, both spiritual and temporal, understood the implicit connections between loving God, family and fatherland because they had an understanding of piety that was this-worldly and extended beyond the prayer closet, devotional or "accountability partner."
They intuited the impossibility of pursuing supernatural virtues while ignoring natural obligations.
Pastors and professors wailing about the idolatry of family or wringing their hands about the supposed dangers of the specter of "Christian Nationalism" hovering over the church are doing as much to undermine Christianity as the Marxist professors or critical theorists at StateU
