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This is an old podcast from Ask Pastor John, and while I don't always agree with John Piper, I think he is spot-on in this episode. Patriotism DOES have a proper place in our lives as Christians, as does love for our Veteran family, but, as Christians, we are pilgrims and sojourners in the land, looking for to our final home with Christ.
Should Christians Be Patriotic?
Posted from desiringgod.org
Patriotism
God
Country
Honor
Posted >1 y ago
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Depends. We should all be devoted to and vigorous in our support of our nation IF it is worthy. Personally, I could not be patriotic except as a citizen of America. It is the only nation on Earth where individual rights are nature (or God-given, if you prefer). Yes, really, the only place. Even those where people are seemingly "free" is in where those rights are granted by their rulers. Even in England and Canada, selected rights have been suspended on occasion when deemed appropriate by their rulers. Sadly, in America, a significant portion of my fellow citizens are all too willing to surrender those rights in exchange for freedom of responsibility for themselves and their words and actions and choices...
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Christianity is not exclusive of service to country. Well rounded is what Jesus himself preached.
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Patriotism is good, but one should be careful about conflict between individual faith and government of citizenship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
Separation of church and state - Wikipedia
The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the nation state. Conceptually, the term refers to the creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church–state separation) and to disestablishment, the changing of an existing, formal relationship between the church and the state.[1]
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