Lately I've noticed a lot of fervor over American patriotism among Evangelicals. Well, allow me to re-phrase. It isn't only lately, but that it has become more acute lately. Inevitably I always end up opening my mouth and, inevitably, it always ends up on some FB status in a comment where I cannot fully articulate my thoughts, so I thought it might be important to do here, for once.
This post takes for granted a certain Sacramental theology. That is, I believe something really happens in the Sacraments themselves, in the Liturgy. Even if you don't believe that, you should be able to follow the logic of the post, since Christianity believes these things happen, even if you disagree about the locus of their happening. That is, whether you believe that it is in the Eucharist and Baptism that we are united to Christ, all of Christianity believes that we are so united.
