“Christian Nationalism” is a poorly defined bogeyman that in nearly all its iterations exists only to tar Christians as advocates of ideas and policies that critics don’t like. It is tendentious in the extreme to say, for instance, that someone who opposes abortion on the basis of her faith is a nasty Christian Nationalist, while a person who opposes racial segregation on the basis of the same faith is not.

Distortions of the life of Jesus have continued to this very day, this very hour. The distortion du jour is that the person and work of Jesus can be safely ignored, and any benefits of His person and work can be adequately obtained in other religions or spiritual traditions.