Over the past 10 years or so, many many Christians have gone woke, primarily for one reason: They will say or do anything to avoid being called racist.

They will deny principles of basic justice (punishing people for things that happened centuries ago, outside of their control). They will deny the Gospel to black Americans (by telling them they have no sin) and to white Americans (by telling them they cannot be redeemed). They will introduce mistrust and fear by denying that any of us can actually obey the command to "love each other." They will look to people who hate them and their God as moral authorities. They will accuse their fellow Christians of the most horrible crimes. They will even accuse Jesus of being racist. All in an effort to be liked by people like LeBron James and Robin DiAngelo.

James Lindsay has helped us see through this fraud. He has helped us see how the term "racist" is used equivocally: defined systemically so that it includes literally everyone, but leveraged for its worst meanings so that Christians and others can be guilt tripped.

Now, a new mean term has come on the scene, directed specifically at Christians this time: "Christian nationalist." Like "racist," this term could be defined innocuously, such as describing a Christian who is not a globalist, and like "racist," it is being leveraged to imply something much worse, in this case a hellish religious dystopia. Like the term "racist," it also constitutes a projection. The woke are the ones who want require adherence to their Hegelian religion, enact heresy laws and purges, etc., and this is what they accuse anyone who resists their program of doing.

And yet ... and yet ... James wants Christians to fall for this again. He seems to be suggesting that we light our hair on fire and run around screaming, "I'm not a Christian nationalist! Not me! Not me! It's those other guys!" Because that worked so well before.

As with racism, instead of accepting the propagandists' definition of Christian nationalism, how 'bout we talk about what the term actually means? How 'bout we actually state our intentions, rather than allowing the woke (and, in this case, James) to impute intentions to anyone who doesn't immediately distance themselves from the term?

A book is out with the words Christian nationalism in the title. No, I haven't read it yet, but I have a pretty good guess about what the contents might be, since I have been listening to Douglas Wilson define terms and talk about how government, church, and family all have separate spheres of authority and it does not do to mix these. I plan to buy the book and read it, without fear, except maybe fear that I will be subject to a religious purge if I am caught reading it without first putting on a brown paper cover.

I would be shocked - shocked - if James has already read this book. It seems to have skeered him real bad, though. He probably has some guesses about the contents, too, and my guess is that his guesses are way off.