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#15 Christian Nationalism, Morality, and the End Times (S1E15)
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#15 Christian Nationalism, Morality, and the End Times (S1E15)

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As someone who grew up in a fundamental Christian cult (Gothard's IBLP of Shiny Happy People), Christy understands the fear and mindset behind Christian Nationalism firsthand. As a teen, she believed that if we could control other people's morality by law, that they would be happier and closer to God. She was taught that America was created as a Christian nation and that it was important to God that it stay that way.

People with similar views are part of the Christian Nationalist movement that we see currently. But that's not all. Christy suggests that a Christian dominionist view supported by the Seven Mountain Mandate popular in NAR churches is colliding with the fundamentalist view to fuel the rapid rise in ideology that we are seeing today.

Christy shares strong doubts about whether either view is accurate or biblical. She points to the example of Jesus who declared that His kingdom was not of this world.

Related Links:

Four Views of the End Times

Examining the Seven Mountain Mandate


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Christy Lynne Wood spent a decade in Bill Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles (as seen on Amazon Prime's "Shiny Happy People" documentary series). Homeschooled in this Christian cult, Christy was a good girl following the rules until Jesus unexpectedly showed up and changed everything.
As Christy got to know Jesus for herself, she began to recognize that the God she knew and the god her cult talked about couldn't be the same God. Once the good girl following the rules, Christy felt a strange rebellion creeping into her heart. But it wasn't rock music, college, or blue jeans that was turning her into a rebel (like she'd been warned), it was Jesus.
Twenty years later, Christy is still passionate about discovering truth, destroying lies, exposing religious Christianity, and helping people to find a thriving relationship with the Real Jesus.