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As Christians, we worship the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a God who is three in one. And often we think of the left as atheist, but in actuality, I found the left is incredibly religious. All people are holy. The only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of bigotry and discrimination. Instead of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the left has their own holy trinity that they worship, the state, environment, and sexuality. It is straight up porn. And anyone who refuses to bow to the left's trinity, who ignores her tenets of diversity, equity, inclusion, are met with the full wrath of the woke mob and cancel culture. A group of people tore down the George Washington statue. Of course, removing the George Washington statue. And another suggesting a name change for the state. How do we respond? More often than not, Christians sit idly by and watch as the left changes the very foundation of our country bit by bit as they wholly embrace and promote these gods. Maybe we want to come across as loving or turning the other cheek, but evil has a way of quickly digging in its roots when the truth isn't spoken. Stick with me. Today, we're gonna dive into the Nazified German church, Christian nationalism, and how the church should respond. As always, I'm your host, Lucas Miles, and this is Church and State. My name is Lucas Miles. I'm an ordained minister and best-selling author. The church has been invaded. By whom? Same ideology that's attacking our state, Marxism. They want a church that bows down to the state. They want a church that worships the state. So if you want to stay informed on the most critical issues regarding religious freedom and the Christian faith, then you've come to the right place. This is Church and State. Welcome back to Church and State. I'm your host, Lucas Miles. Today, we're talking about Christian nationalism. Unless you've had your head in the sand, I'm sure you've heard that term. Christian nationalism, it's tossed around all the time. First off, let's take a look at a few headlines here. In the last year or two, we've seen these. A horn-wearing shaman. A cowboy evangelist. For some, the Capitol attack was some kind of Christian revolt. A Christian insurrection. Militant Christian nationalists remain a potent force, even after the Capitol riot. There's a couple more. Police officers say January 6th insurrectionists perceived themselves to be Christians. And lastly, the growing anti-democratic threat of Christian nationalism in the U.S. Those are just a few headlines. And look, these are just a few of many that we could find on this subject of Christian nationalism. It's talked about all the time. I believe that the term Christian nationalist, when you hear it, it's essentially a dog whistle. It's a dog whistle with the intention of making you think about one thing. Does not celebrate diversity. And it is fundamentally anti-democratic, fundamentally un-American. And that specifically is Nazi Germany. When the left and the media conspire together and utilize this term Christian nationalist, what they're really trying to do is they're trying to paint evangelical Christians as Nazis. They're trying to paint this as bigots, as we should be the public enemy number one in America because of our religious views that we hold that are so dangerous. Christian nationalism. And I wanna take a look at that today. Because when you really understand what happened in Nazi Germany, I believe the last thing that you would ever call an evangelical Christ follower is a Christian nationalist. Now there's some Christians out there that have really embraced this term. So many Americans embracing this Christian nationalism. Grabbed a hold of that and they sort of say it proud that they're a Christian nationalist. I personally think that when you really understand what the term means and historically what it looks like, you might change your thoughts on Christian nationalism. So let's take a look. So when you really see how the left and the media conspire together to utilize this term, this term Christian nationalist, it's intended to make you think of one thing in particular, and that is Nazi Germany. And the goal of this is to really paint Christians, evangelical Christians, Protestant Christians, Christ followers of all different denominations as public enemy number one, that you're a Nazi if you follow Jesus. That's essentially what is being stated. If you tell me I haven't seen the evidence that they've learned the lesson from Nazi Germany. I think they learned the lesson and the lesson is that they're gonna do it again. They're paying attention. They're like, okay, how can we do this again, but not lose next time? There was a book that I saw here recently. It's by a guy named Andrew Whitehead. The title is called, Taking America Back for God, Christian Nationalism in the United States. And in this book, Andrew gives a couple descriptions of how to identify whether or not somebody is a Christian nationalist and what does he say? He says this, he says, first off, Christian nationalists have a belief that the US either was or is a Christian nation. Second, he says that Christian nationalists encourage Christian prayer before sporting events because that's very dangerous. We have to look out for those people that encourage praying for people before sporting events that maybe they don't get an injury or something like that. Christian nationalists, of course, voted for Donald Trump. They participate in evangelism. So if you participate in evangelism as a Christian, you are automatically, according to this author, Andrew Whitehead, a Christian nationalist. If you support Israel, you're a Christian nationalist. If you're not in favor of Palestine bombarding Israel with missiles and everything else, if you support Israel, you're a Christian nationalist. It's that simple. And then lastly, he says, this is the most interesting one to me. If you await the second coming of Christ, you're a Christian nationalist. So basically, according to Andrew Whitehead, if you're a Christian, you're therefore a Christian nationalist because Christians participate in evangelism. They pray before we do anything and we await the second coming of Christ. I mean, those are basic tenets of Christianity. So if you participate in any of those things, you are therefore a Christian nationalist. Now, where did this come from and what is this all about? And are Christians in this country, are they similar to Christians in Nazi Germany? Are we really those Nazis that the left is painting us out to be? When you look at Nazi Germany, Hitler took power in 1933. We have the rise of the Third Reich and the Nazi Party. And the Third Reich understood that without getting some other groups within Germany on their side, they were not going to have success in really promoting the agenda of the Third Reich throughout the nation. And so some of Hitler's closest confidants came up with the idea that they needed to really reach out to the German church and to try to get the German church on board. Of course, Hitler hated the Jews. He wanted to wipe out the Jews from the face of the planet. And he was very successful at that in Nazi Germany, as we know, killing literally millions and millions of Jews in gas chambers in Germany. And so they found a way to sort of reach out to these liberal churches in Germany and begin to promote Nazism within the church. Now, the reason they were able to do that is because this particular sect of German Christianity was already very much aligned with the folkish religion in Germany. So they were already sort of prone to sort of this pantheistic, mystical viewpoints that they had already adopted a little bit into their Christian faith. And injecting Nazism wasn't that far of a stretch because they had already sort of broken this wall of orthodoxy and they were drifting out into something that really fell outside of the Christian faith, but was still using the vehicle of the church in order to promote their message. And so what happened was the Nazified German church, they got behind this agenda. They no longer saw Jesus as just the Messiah. They didn't see him as the savior of the world. They called him Jesus, the Jew destroyer was one of the terms that they gave to Jesus. Jesus, the champion of the state. Jesus, the great strong man. So much so that Hitler and others proposed this idea that Jesus really didn't die on the cross, that he had somebody else die in his place. They adopted some of the ideology from what was known as the quest for the historical Jesus. And they brought this into the Nazified German church, basically stripping Christianity of a view of miracles, stripping Christianity of the virgin birth, stripping Christianity of really the Jewish foundation that it was built upon. And so the Nazified German church got to the point, Eric Metaxas says in his book Bonhoeffer, that they got to the point where they were essentially willing to trade the cross for the swastika and the Bible for Mein Kampf. They literally were willing to give up the tenets of their faith in order to do what? In order to bow down to the status agenda within the Third Reich. Now, when you look at Christians today, when you look at the church today, when you look at evangelicals today, where do you see this? Do you see, you know, can you show me one example? I'll wait, at me on Twitter. I mean, wherever, whatever platform you're on, tell me one instance where true evangelical Christians are willing to compromise on their beliefs in order just to follow the agenda of the state. There aren't any. You won't find it, why? Because the whole nature of being an evangelical Christian is that the state is not our God. Donald Trump is not our God. Now, are there people that, you know, are extremists and they worship Donald Trump? I think even that is blown out of proportion. Although I know there's some sycophants that are out there. To think that a Christian, because they saw Donald Trump as the better alternative to, say, Hillary Clinton or, say, Joe Biden, because they voted for him, that that all of a sudden makes them a Christian nationalist, I find that a little bit far-fetched. Because what do nationalists do? They are willing to bow down to the state at all costs. Do you see Christians bowing down to the state? When I look around, I see Christians were the ones that were resisting the state mandates for masks. They were the ones resisting the state mandates for the COVID vaccination. They were resisting these things, why? Because the state is not their God. They did not, they refuse to make anything else their deity besides the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, three in one. And so, because they refuse to bow down, it, in fact, shows that they're not statists. It doesn't matter who it was. I mean, even now, we have people who have criticized Trump because of his promotion of the vaccine. I recommend you take it, but I also believe in your freedoms 100%. Because certain Christians feel that this is not their place. Look, being a Christian is not about your view of the vaccine, pro or con. It has nothing to do with that. Being a Christian has to do with what do you believe about Jesus Christ? But what we saw in the Nazified German church is they were willing to compromise on these beliefs in order to follow Hitler. Now, what do we have? We have what I call the Christian left. This is the reason I wrote this book. The Christian left is a group of people who are willing to set aside the basic orthodox tenets of Christianity. They're willing to set aside Christian view of marriage. They're willing to set aside the Christian view of creation. They're willing to set aside the Christian view of sexuality. They're willing to set aside the Christian view of personal responsibility in order to grab ahold of a state view of gender, sexuality, to embrace socialism, to embrace the LGBT agenda, to embrace forms of communism that personal responsibility doesn't matter anymore. It's all about the state has to meet everybody's needs. They actually reject the role of the church in society to be a source of mercy and compassion for people. And they're putting that role upon the state. Why? Because they've made the state their God. And what we see when we see the Christian left, or we call it progressive Christianity or liberal Christianity. Do you affirm that white privilege is unfair and harmful to those who have it and to those who do not? Yes. Do you affirm that white privilege and the culture of white supremacy must be dismantled wherever it is present? Yes. What we're seeing is we're seeing some of the same tendencies that we saw in Nazi Germany. Now, please hear, I'm not calling everybody on the left a Nazi, although I'm sure that they would call everybody on the right a Nazi. But you're not a Nazi because you're on the left. You're not a Nazi because you're part of the progressive church. But what I'm saying is that the same thing that the Nazified German church did in that they let go of orthodoxy in order to follow a status agenda is the same thing that we're seeing happen within the Christian left. We're seeing them take on these attributes, take on these identities and bow down essentially to the state. As I said in my intro, you know, we tend to think of the left as being not very religious, but in fact, they're very religious. They, if you don't follow their tenets to the T, you know, you're cast out. It's worse than being tarred and feathered. They're going to cancel you. They're going to shut you. They're going to make your life miserable. They're going to march outside of your house. They're going to picket at your house until you get the point across that you cannot go against their God. You cannot go against their belief in diversity, equity, inclusion. You cannot go against their belief in the LGBT agenda. You cannot go against their belief to have the freedom to be able to abort babies at no matter what age. If you break those tenets of the God of the left, there's a price to pay. And the progressive church, the liberal church, what I call the Christian left, has fallen in step right beside the leftist state in order to promote that agenda. We have churches that are flying Marxist BLM flags above the cross. We have churches that are flying rainbow flags next to the cross. We have churches that are painting the cross rainbow color to show Jesus's support of the LGBT agenda. Jesus Christ, he was gay. Despite the fact that the Bible makes it very clear that marriage is between one man and one woman or that it's wrong, that homosexuality is a sin. Despite these things, we have progressive Christians who are willing to ignore everything the scripture has to say of this and willing to bow down to the state. No, I'm not here to question anybody's salvation. It's not my job to say whether or not somebody's saved or not saved. But it sure seems like we have a lot of Christians in name only on the left because they adhere to doctrines from another religion, from this God, this Holy Trinity of the left, of the state, the environment, and sexuality. And I like to say it this way, is that for the left, their sanctuary is the environment. Their method of worship is sexuality and their God is the state. This is what the worship on the left looks like. This is how they have willingly exchanged the basic tenets of Christianity in order to prop up and promote an anti-God, an anti-Christ mentality that the Marxist state has been making known for a considerable time now. And I really feel that this is something, it's so ironic because much like what we saw with Mussolini, much like we saw with other fascists and socialist leaders, the thing that the left has a tendency to accuse the right of, they are typically doing themselves. Again, I don't know a Christian who would choose the state over God. I don't know a Christian who would choose President Trump over Jesus. I mean, give a Christian a choice of who would you rather have in a room? And I don't know one Christian who would say, I'd rather have President Trump in the room rather than Jesus. That's not even a conversation for a true believer, but the left is trying to paint Christians that way. If you do evangelism, if you support Israel, if you believe and await for the second coming of Jesus, basic tenets of Christianity, you are therefore a Christian nationalist. Where do we go next? It goes to imprisonment. It goes to, we have to politically segregate. We have to make sure that this group of dangerous Christians out there, I mean, what are Christians responsible for? According to the left, Christians are responsible for police brutality. Christians are responsible for school shootings. Christians are responsible for suicide rates. Christians are responsible for all of these things. Why? Because Christians are public enemy number one. When you look at the left's view, again, this is that dog whistle that they're using to paint the Christian as the enemy. You know, when I think back, I used to wonder because as a Christian, you anticipate that eventually we're gonna go through some form of persecution in this nation. As a Christian, I don't have a belief that the world's just gonna keep getting better and better and better and better and better. There are Christians that have eschatology that might hold to that position. I personally don't. I believe that church is going to get brighter, but the world is gonna get darker. There's gonna be that contrast. And eventually one day, Jesus Christ will return to judge the living and the dead. And so as a Christian, I expect at some point persecution will come. But I always wondered, how is this gonna manifest itself? What is it gonna look like? Well, now, you know, again, I'm not saying that this is the end times, but all I know is it's the times and we have to learn how to navigate through it. And what we are seeing here specifically is we're seeing a shift where Christians are no longer just the butt of the joke in Hollywood. We're literally a political enemy to the left. We saw Christian persecution in Rome. We saw Christian persecution in the first, second, third century. And what happened? Christians were burned at the stake. They were thrown to the lions. They were exiled in different circumstances. And fortunately right now, those things are not happening yet in this country. But the more and more the left continues to make the Christian, the enemy of the state, the Christian, the scapegoat, the Christian who's responsible for all the problems in this nation, then what we're gonna see is we're gonna see a rise in persecution. Already, as I've covered on the show before, we're seeing churches that are under attack from protesters, from vandalism, from even our former building. Before we were in it, we purchased it from another church. That church ended up moving out because somebody had literally arsoned the building and burnt down the building. And we got the building right after it was rebuilt. And so this is not something that's unheard of in this nation. We are seeing people lash out against Christians and against the church. And I believe as believers, we have to be aware of this. Because if you don't prepare your heart for this now, if you don't prepare yourself for what are you gonna do in the face of persecution, I think that it's very easy for your faith to fail if you're not ready for what might be coming next. In a lot of these episodes, we're showing news clips and we're showing different things. But in this episode, I really just wanna talk to your heart about this stuff because this is something that is a real accusation against the church. And I do wanna point out the lack of logic on the left and the left's tactics to try to use this dog whistle in order to villainize the church. But even more than that, I wanna help prepare you, the viewer, my audience, my friends, I wanna help prepare you for what comes next. Because if you don't know that you know that you know that you know, where you stand in your faith when real attacks against religious freedom come to this nation, and if the Lord doesn't tarry, to use an old church term, I think they're gonna come. And at that point, we have to know and be prepared on how we will respond. As I said earlier in the episode, to the left, the state is the highest form of God. They like to call us Christian nationalists, basically an indirect way of calling Christians Nazis. But I ask you today, who are the actual Christian nationalists? Christians who worship the savior of the universe, their Lord Jesus Christ, or leftists who wholeheartedly embrace any rhetoric or agenda spewed by the state? See, if you deny the state and any of its ideals, you're deemed a heretic and you're canceled by the woke mob. You know, it can be intimidating to stare an overwhelmingly large mob who embrace anti-Christian ideals in the face, but don't be content with just being a good American. The good Germans, those Nazified German Christians, they might've stayed out of trouble. They might've flew under the radar during the horror that rocked their country and the world. They also lost the opportunity to do the right thing and to stand up for the Jews who are being murdered and also to stand up for the true faith in Jesus Christ. See, American Christians also have the opportunity to slide by in silence, but by being silent, we're allowing the left to continue pushing their anti-God agenda. See, we're called as Christians to put on the full armor of God and to be strong and very courageous. Starting today, I wanna encourage you to stand up for your values. Be loud, be bold, proclaim the word of God to a culture that desperately needs him. I wanna thank you for joining me today on, I believe, this very special episode of Church and State. As always, I'm your host, Lucas Miles. Stand strong and keep the faith. ♪ If I am lost along the way ♪ ♪ If I wander off onto a different trail ♪ ♪ Will you forgive me if I fail ♪ ♪ When I'm lost and erased ♪ ♪ Through wind and through rain ♪ ♪ Through trouble and pain ♪ ♪ If ever my heart strays ♪ ♪ Will you pull me through like you always do ♪ ♪ When I am calling your name ♪