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“America, for all its virtues, is still just a kingdom of this world, and kingdoms of this world cannot be the kingdom of God. American Christian nationalism envisions a worldly government that embodies the kingdom of God and thus creates an idol out of the state.”

“Perhaps we are stirred neither for good or evil. Restless organpipes echo within us a void; oppressive games in which our power slips away unnourished, like blood seeping from an unknown wound.”

Thus saith a man driven entirely by his passions. But there is some truth in this for all of us.

“Fallen from the blue steppes where I had admired it, my precious star had turned into a woman, who retained its brightness, glitter, and freshness. Totally ignorant of love, I found that I was suddenly in love. Isn’t the first eruption of man’s fiercest sentiment the strangest thing?”

Fiercest is right. I wasn’t expecting such active (and weird) descriptions of his muse in this era.

“What poet will sing of the sorrow of a babe whose lips suck on a sour breast, whose smiles are crushed by a harsh glint in a cruel eye?”

“When I first encountered American Christian nationalism, I viewed it as a heresy to be destroyed and those who gave themselves over to it as enemies to defeat… My intentions were good. My methods, not so much. By viewing American Christian nationalists as the enemy, I was taking the posture of Leviathan: a combative approach that created more divisiveness and frustration.”