and upon this Constitution I will build my America, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Surreal secular messianism from the weird suburbs of American Evangelicalism. Just to gain some perspective, this phenomenon is nothing new in the life of nation-states. American secular messianism is but the latest manifestion of the nationalist tendency to identify one’s country with (and ultimately try to supplant) Holy Church. As Scott Hahn once remarked to me: the biblical pattern seems to... Read more