BIBLICAL
PROTESTANTISM AND ETHNIC NATIONALISM by J. Parnell McCarter
Most professing
American Protestants today seem not to recognize the close historical
connection between Protestant reformation efforts and ethnic nationalism.
By ethnic nationalism I mean the belief
that an ethnic people
who share a
common ethnic heritage, language,
history, and culture should rightfully be able to constitute
an independent nation,
free of foreign
domination and abuse.
Consider these
examples:
1. John Wycliffe in defense of Protestantism and English
nationalism
2. John Hus in defense of Protestantism and Bohemian
nationalism
3. Martin Luther in defense of Protestantism and German
nationalism
4. Ulrich Zwingli in defense of Protestantism and Swiss
nationalism
5. Gaspard de Coligny in defense of Protestantism and French nationalism
6. John Knox and Andrew Melville in defense of Protestantism
and Scottish nationalism
7. William of Orange in defense of Protestantism and Dutch
nationalism
8. Pretorius and Paul Kruger in defense of Protestantism and
Afrikaner (“Boer”) nationalism
Moses himself
exemplified this, as both Biblical reformer and Israelite nationalist. Other Israelite leaders, including Gideon,
David, and Nehemiah, shared this characteristic. There is a Biblical form of ethnic nationalism
which opposes imperial efforts that undermine Biblical Protestantism and ethnic
nationalist rights. Old Testament Israel in its moral aspects is to be
the model for all nations under Christ, whereas Babel is the historic model of
Anti-Christ. Our scriptural
eschatological destiny is one of many ethnic nations covenanted to Jesus Christ
according to Biblical principles, but the enemies of Christ have continued over
the course of history to oppose this.
Here is an accurate
description of Moses:
1. Follower of the God of the Bible
2. Fervent ethnic nationalist who sought an independent
homeland nation for his own ethnic people, free of foreign dominion and abuse
but covenanted to follow the God of the Bible
3. Believed that it was not morally prohibited to marry
someone of another people group (as evidenced by his marriage to a Midianite), so long as marriage is only in the Lord
4. Sought equal justice and fair treatment not only for his
own people, but also foreign peoples, including foreign people in his people’s
midst
Many American
Christians today seem to think the above characteristics should not mix. The multiculturalists believe there is no
place for fervent ethnic nationalism, based in part upon an erroneous
interpretation of certain New Testament verses, but especially due to
politically correct societal brainwashing by imperial elites, and fear to go
against the politically correct mainstream view. On the other side of the spectrum, many kinists erroneously believe marriage is morally prohibited
between certain people groups, even if the marriage is in the Lord (ie, both parties are Christian). Some kinists also
erroneously believe in an absolute segregation of people groups. The latter is in contrast to exceptions we find like Moses’ wife,
Ruth, Rahab, and Uriah the Hittite.
But to both of
these I would respond:
1. Moses was right in embracing all 4 characteristics
described above, despite opposition from Egyptian and Hebrew multiculturalists
(who wanted the Israelite people to remain in and part of Egypt) and Miriam and
Aaron, “the kinists” of their day).
2. Old Testament Israel in its moral aspects is a model for
all nations today. This implies we need
leaders today who follow the example of Moses in embracing all 4
characteristics described above.
Various interests and
interest groups (including the Vatican) have sought to ram multiculturalism
down the throats of Americans. But American people (aka “Anglos”) have a
right to our own independent nation where we are the ruling majority just as
much as the other peoples of the world have a right to theirs. We can rightly reject the concept of a
“global nation”, in which ethnic diversity is regarded as a moral imperative,
and in which we have to forego our own independent ethnic homeland nation.
One would think judging
by the commonly held view of most professing American Protestants that
“Protestant nationalism” is an oxymoron.
But nothing could be further from the truth. Just as I have a special interest in seeing
the Establishment Principle re-embraced, and that in an explicitly reformed
Christian form, I also have a special interest in seeing Protestant ethnic
nationalism re-embraced, including by my own people. There is a significant effort to make ethnic
nationalism a dirty word by multicultural imperialists. The historic arch-enemy of Protestant
nationalism is the Romish Pope, and that is still
true today. He has his allies, as he
always has. These include the corporate
leaders whose god is money, and whose means is cheap foreign labor. There are the many American secularist Jews,
whose hatred of Protestant Christianity is only surpassed by their irrational
fear of it. Then there are many
foreigners, generally from less developed countries, who do not realize they
are being used by others for ends contrary to their long term welfare. Then there are the Protestant lapdogs who soak up whatever multicultural drivel pours forth from
politically correct imperialists, who either fail to analyze realities or else
are too scared to say anything lest the “racist” label is thrown at them. Frankly, many of the latter are not even
Protestants at all, for Protest against the Romish
Pope and Romanism is almost entirely absent from them.
Biblical
Protestantism and ethnic nationalism go hand in hand.