#126 My Cult and Christian Nationalism (Summer 2022)

In this final episode of Summer 2022, Christy tackles the ideology of Christian Nationalism. Unknowingly, this is exactly what Christy was taught and believed growing up in Bill Gothard's Christian cult. It was her desire as a brainwashed 15-year-old to redeem culture by influencing it in a way that would cause all people to end up living like her group. A scary thought in her modern mind!

Christy helps to define Christian Nationalism and then walks her listeners through the reason that it's a flawed ideology created by poor hermeneutics and a flawed understanding of history. She understands that most people these days see the brokenness in our world and want to fix it. Many of us are operating out of fear. However it is not possible to create a utopia by our own efforts. And fear makes us do strange things. 

Christy encourages her listeners to take a step back, pay careful attention to how we read Scripture, and get to know people who are different from us so that our perspective can be challenged and changed.

 

Related Links

Articles:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/february-web-only/what-is-christian-nationalism.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/us/christian-nationalism-politicians.html

My Substack:

https://christylynnewood.substack.com/

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