Politics · 30 · Conclusions
Peoplehood is not nationalism
Nationalism, in historian Jill Lepore's words, is about who we are not. Peoplehood is about who we are.
One feeds on fear; the other grows from love.
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Jacob Wright, a Jew teaching at a Christian seminary, uses the Bible to counter Christian nationalism. The Bible's vision of a nation rests not on military might or ethnic purity but on education and love of neighbor.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 468–469
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