With all the hoopla surrounding the term “Christian Nationalism” today and the danger it supposedly represents, I thought I would give an historic example of a time when Christians, explicitly as Christians, involved themselves in the political process enough that as a result of their actions, actual and not metaphorical, blood was shed. At the outset, let me offer up that the term “Christian Nationalism” escapes a decent academic definition untainted by the deepest of biases, so I won’t even try. Instead, let’s look at what happened with “Beecher’s Bibles” and maybe we can take a lesson from it.
There are many overlapping issues from then, 160 years ago, to today's issues with this piece.
Bravo!