Award-winning Christian hip-hop artist Kevin "KB" Burgess says in a new book that the church must distinguish between patriotism and nationalism if it is to properly represent God's will on Earth.
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Should Christians Be Nationalists?
Depending on who you ask, Christian nationalism is either a grave threat to the nation and the Church or is nothing more than a label used to demonize and dismiss people of faith from the public square, and therefore no threat at all.
Johnny Cash's Gospel versus the Temptations of Nationalism
When you think of the music of the Man in Black, you mostly think of the music where Cash speaks up for the poor, the struggling and the disenfranchised, songs that “beat with the rhythm of love and social justice." But Cash was an outspoken patriot and he loved America, and his patriotism often made the gospel messages found in his music vulnerable to distortion and misappropriation, in exactly the same way that patriotism and nationalism of all sorts can distort and twist the gospel.
