By Judge Phil Ginn for TOWNHALL
Apparently, that bastion of former unbiased news coverage, CNN, is promoting an upcoming installment of “The Whole Story” titled The Rise of Christian Nationalism, set to air on Sunday, March 8. According to Pamela Brown, their chief investigative correspondent, she has been working on this project for several months and will also expose Christian classical education, along with this alarming rise in “Christian Nationalism,” as one of the great threats to our democracy. To sustain her conclusion, she points to the “radicalization” of Christianity following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Mind you, though this type of propaganda that is being showcased as news is dubious at best, it is certainly nothing new. There are examples of derogatory and hateful rhetoric that were even launched at the fledgling early believers. If you will recollect, they were called cannibals because of the symbolism of the Lord’s Supper, were accosted for being subversive to the Roman government, and were blamed for Nero’s burning of his own capitol. Obviously, these kinds of attacks gave birth to all sorts of violence and maltreatment of the early church in a concerted effort to destroy its influence. Thankfully, the actions of the Roman opinion makers at the time did not have the desired effect they sought against those early Christian followers, nor will anything CNN or the prideful left do succeed against Christ’s church today.
That is not to say that Christianity in today’s America is exempt from prejudice and persecution. In fact, the CNN affront may just be one more steppingstone toward America turning away from Christianity toward a godless socialistic and humanistic position in its history. If so, time will tell. What is beyond question is this: the church in America must ready itself for the coming storm, for our current state suggests we are unprepared.
CNN is ostensibly defining Christian Nationalism as “an ideology rooted in the belief that our country was founded as a Christian nation, and that our laws and institutions should reflect Christian values.” Ms. Brown goes further to assert that the assassination of Charlie Kirk “radicalized” Christians into a feeling of being persecuted.
