Deny Yourself

Christian nationalists don't go to church much, which may possibly help to explain why the church named after the greatest country in the world has thus far omitted to endorse them. Researchers into the desperately relevant issue of "Christianity and Britishness" have discovered, mirabile dictu, that Christians who are hostile to Islam and immigration tend not to agree that their values require welcoming the foreigner. It appears that such people are merely invoking the name of Jesus to further their own agenda: something no genuine Christian would ever do, as may be seen from that famous moral unanimity which has characterised and sustained the true faith these past millennia.

Those commenting on the report displayed the customary degree of moral and historical honesty: "You don’t choose who you’re sitting next to in the pew, you don’t choose who’s next to you in the communion rail," said one. "It becomes a bit more human and more humane." Well, you probably also don't choose which Blackshirt is next to you on the barricade; but humane or not, in either case one chooses to be with the saved in-group and not the damned Other. "The church is and has been since its inception a multi-ethnic, multinational group, and may not rightly be equated with any nationality or ethnicity," proclaimed someone else. Unless Jesus doesn't count, the church at its inception consisted entirely of Jews.