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THE RELIGION GUY'S ANSWER: The moving 80th commemoration of D-Day occurred six days after the barely-noticed 90th anniversary of the Barmen Declaration,

In 1934, the Nazi hate speech forced the followers of Jesus Christ to make a public confession. Karl Barth, principal author of the Barmen Declaration, asked: what should be considered orthodox Christian and what must be rejected, anathematized, and opposed. If Jesus Christ is Lord, then neither Berlin nor Washington are. What might Barmen on Christian Nationalism in 1934 say to America in 2024?

Carl Trueman warns against a Christianity that loses its transcendent focus when it is drawn into immanent concerns, such as politics. He gives the example of theologians who gradually succumbed to the temptation of Nazism, contrasting them with Hermann Sasse and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose Bethel Confession, "placed the transcendent God, his Word and sacraments, and his church above all earthly powers."

Christians need to talk more about the transcendence of God, which is an immunization from being captured by evil political forces. 

Ours is a time of anthropological crisis when we as a society cannot agree on what it means to be human.