A 10-Step Plan for Building a Respectably Christian Nation
Step 1: Define Christianity So It Applies to Everyone Automatically
Anchor Christianity in public life: laws, customs, holidays, and slogans. This ensures no one ever has to ask whether they’re Christian. If they live here, they are.
Step 2: Keep the People Familiar
Unity works best when people already look alike, sound alike, and share the same grandparents. Shared faith travels more efficiently along shared bloodlines. Catechesis is hard; continuity is easier.
Step 3: Prioritize Order—Belief Can Catch Up Later
A well-behaved society is already halfway redeemed. Once crime is low and manners are high, the remaining theological details feel almost unnecessary.
Step 4: Talk About the Nation, Not the Church
Churches are messy, always dividing over doctrine and discipline. A nation, by contrast, can be Christian without insisting on anyone agreeing too much about what that means.
Step 5: Replace Conversion with Upbringing
Raise people Christian the way you raise them punctual or polite. If they grow up surrounded by Christian norms, they’ll absorb whatever is essential—perhaps by osmosis.
Step 6: Treat Christianity as an Heirloom
Pass it down, like your skin color (pure white), with the land, the language, and the last name. Faith that must be personally confessed is fragile; faith that comes with citizenship is durable.
Step 7: Ask the Church to Be a Team Player
Encourage sermons that support national stability and shared values. Anything that sounds like gospel proclamation or repentance can wait until after the culture is secured, the liberals and foreigners excommunicated from the nation.
Step 8: Diagnose Apostasy as a Loyalty Issue
When someone rejects Christianity, frame it as a rejection of heritage, not truth. This keeps the faith intact while explaining unbelief as a social (racial) malfunction.
Step 9: Count What’s Convenient
Measure Christianity by public behavior, civic language, and moral consensus. Regeneration is invisible and difficult to chart; enculturation photographs much better.
Step 10: Guard the Label at All Costs
Whatever happens, keep the word Christian attached to the nation. Names create reality, or at least the appearance of it, and appearances are half the battle.
Conclusion
Follow these steps and you will enjoy the fruits of a thoroughly Christian nation: Christianity everywhere, and faith so assumed it never needs to be confessed.
Which is, after all, the surest way to ensure Christianity endures—make it as American as apple pie.
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