Christian Nationalism is a destructive heresy that betrays the Gospel, sullies the Church's witness, and leads to death, not life. It poisons the soul, divides the Church, and destroys people. Seeking to reign rather than serve, it reflects hell rather than heaven.

Christian Nationalism takes a legitimate subordinate love - the love of one's country - and makes it a sinfully supreme love. This is obvious by its willingness to ignore the teaching of Jesus in the name of its cause, to kill and destroy rather than love and serve.

In so doing, it makes this love an idol - and thus a demon. And it is the unleashing of the demonic, of the hellish, of the fearful and horrid, of death, that we saw unleashed in Washington DC this past week, and all surrounded by Jesus banners.

It was like a sight from the 1100s with crusading Knights yelling, 'God wills it!' as they advanced against the walls of Jerusalem to retake the Holy City. We have often seen faux faith on display in the US too - from slavery to the KKK. This is but the latest example.

This darkness will be overcome by the light of the Gospel, and the Church does have an opportunity to remember, repent, return to its FIRST LOVE, and make Jesus known through our FIRST works of deeds of love and mercy.

The confusion of Christ's glorious Kingdom with fallen, fallible, and finite human governments & party politics must come to an end. Our love for Jesus must be renewed and repentance born of remembering his love for us in his cross is the only way ahead.