Paul D. Miller

“Nationalism is incoherent in theory, illiberal in practice, and, I fear, often idolatrous in our hearts.”
― Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism

“The danger of nationalism is not that it encourages us to cultivate loyalty to and affection for our country—which is inescapable—but that it endows the state with almost limitless jurisdiction to reshape culture, imagines the nation as a quasi-religious body, and exacerbates sectarian and ethnic cleavages at home. Christians who uncritically buy into nationalism are giving support to an incoherent secular idea with a troubled historical record and making themselves credulous supporters of a dangerous and thoughtless theology.”
― Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism