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Mark Driscoll, Christian Nationalism, and Babel

The comeback of Mark Driscoll has been interesting to watch, and in addition to taking bold stances against modern Jezebels, Mark Driscoll has weighed in on Chrisitan Nationalism, as though he wasn’t controversial enough already. In the same sermon series that led to him defying the city of Scottsdale, Arizona on political signs, Mark Driscoll makes a bold case that nationalism is God’s will for humanity.

Mark Driscoll frames the debate over nationalism into a dichotomy between nationalism and globalism. This is a truncated version of Joel Webbon’s argument which also includes tribalism. However, despite the appearance of a false dichotomy, tribalism is not a viable option right now.

Driscoll argues that globalism has always been in rebellion to God dating back to the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. He argues that God separated mankind into nations. Undergirding Driscoll’s argument is that God’s separation of people into distinct nations with different languages was a corrective action for their own good, not a curse befalling mankind. Much of Big Eva, ie Tim Keller, believes that the division of mankind is a curse and not a blessing, and this faulty premise reared its ugly head with the rise of Critical Race Theory in the church. Stephen Wolfe in The Case For Christian Nationalism argues that different nations would have occurred had the fall of man not occurred, borrowing heavily from Reformed theologians of old. Thus, Christian Nationalists believe that God course corrected mankind at the Tower of Babel.

Additionally, Mark Driscoll argues that the church can interfere with the state but not the reverse. This would be called sacralism by James White, but nonetheless, Driscoll points out that Christians vote, pay taxes, run for office, and draft legislation to this end. Driscoll also credits Christianity with the basis for our legal system.

In the livestream, we talk about how pastors are to the left of their congregations. Mark Driscoll appears to the right of the church, and it shows when he says that Iraqi Christians had it better under Saddam Hussein in the state that elected liberal senator John McCain. Moreover, Mark Driscoll’s colloquial approach, though not without factual discrepancies, uses the same basic logic that prominent Christian Nationalists have used. Perhaps he’s done the reading.

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