Extra: The Twilight Zone, Conformity, and Christian Nationalism
My newest column at RNS
From my latest column at Religion News Service:
My favorite way of celebrating the new year every year is to tune into the annual “Twilight Zone” marathon on Syfy. Because they center on unchanging human fears, foibles and vices, these shows never get old. At their best, they convey scriptural truth about human nature and the fallen world in ways one never forgets.
One of my favorites is Episode 42, “Eye of the Beholder,” which first aired in 1960. The episode considers, as the title suggests, the aphorism “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Read the rest of the essay here.
Good essay, but should we be so accommodating to their warped vocabulary as to still be referring to them as "Christian Nationalists"? Isn't there a more appropriate term for a group of people who believe that the relationship with Christ is meditated through the culture of a nation (or worse)?
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