Wings of Liberty • October 3, 2025

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 4: THE FIRST DUTY OF CITIZENS

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens...” – James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance


Let us soberly consider Madison’s warning. It is “proper” to be alarmed at the “first” experiment (in modern terms, “threat”) to our liberties. The first threat, mind you. And, not only is it “proper to take alarm”, but “this prudent jealousy” is the “first duty of citizens.” What a warning!


Our world is full of tyrants. There are tyrants on the Left, and yes, do not deceive yourself, there are also plenty of tyrants on the Right. Let us soberly evaluate ourselves as citizens then. Have we, do we, exercise “that prudent jealousy” to safeguard individual liberties, not only ours but the individual liberties of our society?

No. If we are honest, the answer is “no.” Collectively and individually, western society has woefully failed to take alarm when individual liberties are threatened. If “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”, as Jefferson said, we should expect to be enslaved. And we ought not to be surprised that this is precisely what is happening.

We are entertained. We are preoccupied. We are self-absorbed. And we have failed to be vigilant for liberty.

What liberties are we to guard? We do not have to guess. We are to jealously safeguard as our first duty those liberties enshrined in the Constitution. First and foremost, we are to safeguard the separation of church and state, freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, and the right to assemble.


Before considering the existential threat to liberty that Christian Nationalism poses, which is the primary subject of this article, we first must make dishonorable mention of certain other threats to liberty which so many of us have ignored to our shame and peril.


Compulsion to use biologically discordant gender pronouns is a threat to liberty. Silence while the world plays make-believe about men becoming women and having babies is a threat to liberty. Government removal of parental rights is a threat to liberty. Suing bakeries to punish them for refusing to make wedding cakes for gay weddings is a threat to liberty.


And yes, killing millions of babies in utero is absolutely a threat to liberty. Not only is it uncivil and immoral, it is national suicide to wilfully destroy the next generation of human beings. Killing millions of babies is correlated with western willingness to accept mass migration. There is a need to replace workers the western world does not have. How is that going for you, France? Germany? UK? America?


But if any of the above makes you feel partisanly righteous, however, let us disabuse you of your sanctimony.

Both Left and Right governments locked their populaces down during Covid. Both forced and bullied their citizens into social distancing and “two weeks to flatten” the spine of the population. What would Madison have said about an America where the government threatens the civil liberties of the entire country, and American’s response was to roll up their sleeves, and say, “fine, Fauci says I need it, and I really want a free hamburger”?

We are to take alarm at the First Experiment upon our liberties. And when does that start?


Is 37 trillion dollars of national debt a threat to liberty? What about currency debasement? Mass warrantless public surveillance? Digital money tied directly to the Federal Reserve so that authorities can shut your entire life off with the push of a button?


No, Christian Nationalism is not the first threat to liberty. Not even close. But is a threat to liberty and more than this, it is biblically prophetic, as we have discussed. Note Previous Articles


You might ask – why shouldn’t the Christian Right take control of civil power and abuse the Left as much as the Left has abused us?


And we could respond, and do respond, “because it is unconstitutional”. And it is. But the answer is bigger than that.


Doug Wilson, and Jared Longshore. Timon Cline and Lennox Kalifungwa. Stephen Wolfe. These, and many other modern and intolerant “Christian” thought leaders all believe in the establishment of a Christian Republic in America as a cure for society’s ills.


What do they propose? Liberty? Far from it.


The Woke Left violated free speech through state-sponsored gender confusion and forced pronouns. The Christian Nationalist response is blasphemy laws enforced by the state. Doug Wilson and friends is constantly telling everyone who will listen how great the Puritans in Massachusetts were, and that they founded America, which is false by the way. But they do not tell you that in Massachusetts violations of blasphemy laws were historically punished by piercing the offender’s tongue with a hot poker, or death.


Today in Massachusetts, a blasphemy law still exists (although it is not currently enforced), and states as follows:

 

Section 36: Blasphemy


Section 36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.


Are we so blind that we do not see that censorship from the Right is as much a threat to liberty as censorship from the Left?


Christian Nationalists claim Swiss Reformer John Calvin is the father of America. This is a dangerous and outrageous falsehood, and will be the subject of an upcoming article. It must never be forgotten that John Calvin had men murdered for the supposed crime of heresy, the substance of which was nothing more than disagreeing with John Calvin.


The Woke Left hijacked government to enforce their religion of gender ideology. And Christian Nationalists want to establish Protestantism as an official state religion, contrary to the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Doug Wilson and company intend to legislate compliance with the first table of the Ten Commandments. That includes blasphemy laws, of course, but also Sunday ‘Sabbath’ blue laws, and punishments for supposed violations. Violations of Sunday laws historically included whipping. Jailing. Chain gangs. Stocks. And death. And in case you were wondering, all of those things when imposed for simply disagreeing with religious bigots are a threat to liberty.


Christian Nationalists want to demolish the separation of church and state in America, and even admit their intention to impose a religious test for public office, contrary to the Article VI of the Constitution:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.


Doug Wilson and company are openly stating their intention to threaten the liberty of every single American. Madison would have opposed them publicly, were he alive. But he has left the trust to us.


Madison as a youth stood outside a local prison and listened to an incarcerated minister preach through the bars of his cell window. The minister had been imprisoned for the so-called “crime” of “preaching the Gospel incorrectly”.


Because he had seen oppression from religious bigots firsthand, James Madison had a lifelong animus to the union of church and state. And so should you. It is a threat to liberty, and it is your first duty as a citizen to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.


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Sources:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmSG4U06X2o – Discussion between Walter Veith et al and Doug Wilson where Doug Wilson states he is in favor of the state establishment of the Protestant religion. “I believe the Christian faith ought to be the public faith of our civic polity. That’s why I’m a Christian Nationalist.” – Doug Wilson, minute 33:30. Wilson claims he nevertheless believes in the First Amendment and the separation of church and state, which is disingenuous. He also believes the government should enforce the first table of the Decalogue, proving further that he is really aiming to break down the wall of separation between church and state.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgkfi191qV0 – David Shepherd and Lennox Kalifungwa interview Pastor Douglas Wilson and Ben Merkle


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZ1eTNX65w – Senate hearing on Covid shot safety, September 2025


https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/constitution.htm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeIO0ZjdF8 - CNN interview with Christian Nationalist Doug Wilson

Is Christian Nationalism a Threat To Religious Freedom?

By Heritage and Hope Ministries • September 28, 2025

Charlie Kirk

By Wings of Liberty • September 12, 2025
The world has lost a giant, and his name was Charlie Kirk. We live in a world of silent cowardice. There are cities in America today where a woman can be raped on the subway in broad daylight and bystanders will say nothing. It is a world where selfishness and iniquity have caused the hearts of many to grow cold, as the Bible warns in Matthew 24:12. It is a world where wickedness unobjected to has strangled principled discourse. People have stifled the voice of conviction in their personal lives for so long that it has subdued independence and courage in the public square. Put simply: people who are cowards in their personal lives will be cowards in their public lives. Under the best of circumstances in such a world, it would be difficult for anyone to stand up in the public square and voice their opinion, even if that opinion is a majoritarian position. But it takes supreme courage to enter public territory where one holds a minority opinion and engage in public dialogue with those who hate everything you stand for. When Charlie Kirk went to a public university to speak on the Bible, the sanctity of life and marriage, or how it is impossible for men to become women, he was entering territory where he knew his opinions were hated and would be misrepresented. He knew he was going to be threatened and vilified. He knew there was a risk to his life. But he went anyway. Whether you agreed with him or not, liked him or not, whether he was right about everything or not, it is necessary to somberly consider and lament the killing of such a man. We mourn the loss of rare species of animals and insects, flora and fauna. Billions are poured into the fight to save threatened animals. But the rarest of all things in this wicked, cold-hearted world is the principled and courageous human being. The silencing of a principled man, killed for the express purpose of censoring his voice, is a tragedy of infinitely greater magnitude than this foolish, dissipated generation realizes. We live in a world where closeted podcasters voice their opinions from the comfort of their living rooms. Most have never faced a big crowd, let alone a big hostile crowd. Let’s face it. Some of the most brazen and cocky online personalities who bark the loudest from their private apartment cocoons would soil themselves at the prospect of standing at a microphone surrounded by hundreds or thousands of actual people. Especially real hostile people. But Charlie Kirk was not only courageous, he respectfully dialogued with the people who screamed at him, insulted him, and hated him. In a world of polarization and cancel culture, and naked, open hostility, Charlie was measured and polite. A perverse generation of leftist students celebrates the loss of Charlie Kirk. They bask in it. They do not realize that they are rejoicing in the loss of that rarest of blessings: someone who cared enough to come speak to them despite their hostility. And who will go now? The ultimate censorship is murder. Cain killed Abel to silence his conscientious and courageous, principled speech. The Bible records the deaths and persecution of the prophets, every one of them censored and punished for speaking the truth. Isaiah sawn in two, Jeremiah thrown into the pit, Elijah hunted by wicked Jezebel. The apostles faired no better. Peter crucified, James killed with the sword, Stephen stoned, Paul beheaded. The blood of righteous Abel cried unto the Lord from the ground, and “he, being dead, yet speaketh” – Hebrews 11:4. Does the blood of Charlie Kirk cry less loudly? It takes courage to speak in the face of hostile crowds, but it is not only courage which drives a person to take such a risk. It takes conviction. A love of the truth. And yes, a love of people. The world has lost a giant. And it is right to mourn the passing of such a man. … On December 9, 2025, Charlie Kirk’s last minority opinion will be published posthumously. The book is on a subject he felt to be infinitely more important than mere politics. It is on the subject of the ancient and forgotten seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible, and is titled, “Stop in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life”. A Christian world which has embraced the papal falsehood of Sunday sacredness will soon hear the thoughts of a martyr on the sacredness of the seventh day of the fourth commandment. These are doubtless words that the conservative right, and proponents of Project 2025 need to hear. These are words which the left, who have rejected Creator God and Redeemer need to hear. It is another sign of the times.

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 3: LIBERTY THREATENED

By Wings of Liberty • August 14, 2025
THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 3: LIBERTY THREATENED Nearly a hundred and forty years ago there was a major national initiative to unite church and state in America and impose what was claimed to be Christianity on society. The push united representatives from at least eleven denominations, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. After a severe struggle the movement failed. i Today, America is facing another similar crisis. … THE HISTORICAL PUSH FOR CHURCH AND STATE UNION IN AMERICA In the late 1800s, the National Reform Association (NRA) ii achieved country-wide political momentum for its initiative for a religious amendment to the Constitution to make the United States a Christian state. Its proposed amendment was worded as follows: "We the people" would acknowledge "Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among nations, His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government..." iii The stated purpose of the NRA was to unite church and state. It’s organizational constitution contained the following purpose: To secure such an amendment to the Constitution of the United States as will declare the nation's allegiance to Jesus Christ, and its acceptance of the moral laws of the Christian religion, and so indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all the Christian laws, institutions and usages of our government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land. iv The practical result of the proposed constitutional amendment was stated in the Christian Statesman, the flagship publication of the NRA, on February 21, 1884. Writer Rev. J. C. K. Milligan asked the question, “How is the Amendment to be carried out practically?viii In answer he stated: “In brief, its adoption will at once make the morality of the ten commandments to be the supreme law of the land, and anything in the State constitutions and laws that is contrary to them will become unconstitutional. v Another proponent of the NRA, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D. D., stated the following in a speech at the New York National Reform Convention: We want State and religion—and we are going to have it. It shall be that so far as the affairs of State require religion, it shall be revealed religion, the religion of Jesus Christ. The Christian oath and Christian morality shall have in this land ‘an undeniable legal basis.’ We use the word religion in its proper sense, as meaning a man’s personal relation of faith and obedience to God. vi Those who opposed the religious amendment to the Constitution were declared to be “infidels” and “lunatics”, and Jews, deists, Seventh-day Baptists, and all others, including Seventh-day Adventists, were classed with the atheists, and pronounced as ‘atheists’ themselves by Mr. Edwards: These all are, for the occasion, and so far as our Amendment is concerned, one class… They must be counted together.... they must be treated as [atheists], for this question, one party. Now look at it—look at the controversy. The question is not between opinions that differ, but opinions that are opposite, that are contradictory, that mutually exclude each other. It is between Christianity and infidelity. It is between theism and atheism, between the acknowledgment of a God and the denial that there is any God… They “are conjoined with the other members of this class by the accident of differing with the mass of Christians upon the question of what precise day of the week shall be observed… vii After stating that those who opposed the NRA religious amendment were only a “minority”, Mr. Edwards proceeded to describe the unfitness of such people for “advanced” societal participation: “I would tolerate him [the atheist, including Jews, deists, Seventh-day Baptists, etc] as I would a conspirator. The atheist is a dangerous man.... But he shall be tolerated. He may live, and go free, hold his lands, and enjoy his home; he may even vote; but for any higher, more advanced citizenship, he is, as I hold, utterly disqualified. viii The NRA ultimately failed in its initiative to have a national Sunday law passed and the push to unite church and state sullenly subsided for a time. Today, however, a resurgent coalition of parties, Protestant and Catholic, has largely already succeeded where the NRA failed. Christian Dominionism, including the Heritage Foundation/Project 2025, and adherents to the New Apostolic Reformation, have seized political power and are altering government to implement religious policy and goals, as Revelation 13 foretells. We believe this union of church and state represents the image to the beast recorded by John in Revelation: Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. ix EXAMPLES OF CHURCH/STATE UNION TODAY There is no shortage of examples to evidence that religious power is influencing, or outright controlling in some instances, the state. For example, Christian dispensationalism controls foreign policy in the Middle East, as Senator Ted Cruz recently admitted in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Ecumenical Christianity is convinced that whoever blesses the nation of Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses it will be cursed.