Let us ignore the “Nations of the World” and focus instead on the “Nation of God”. The life path of Christians can be reduced to giving their full allegiance to the Kingdom of God. In doing so they must denounce the coercive and violent ideologies of the natural world. Translating this into the Christian call to action, we must follow the Kingdom of God in transforming the world, rather than using politics as a means to such transformation. This is based on his destruction of the idea that America is a Christian nation: “What gives this understanding of the kingdom of God such strong emotional force is the long-standing myth that America is a 'Christian nation '. From the beginning, Americans have been inclined to believe that God's will was manifest in the founding of our country and is still manifest in our nation's global activity. Throughout our history, most Americans have confidently believed that our nation's causes and wars were virtuous and just and that God was "on our side." In our minds, and often in our churches, the cross and the national flag have gone hand in hand. As a result, the conservative church, at least to a large extent, has tended to see itself as the religious custodian of all that is divine in our culture. America is a holy city 'set on a hill,' and the Church's job is to keep it shining” (Reknew). Remove temptation and allegiance to the natural world and it can and will distract
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