The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism has published what it says is a glossary of Christian Nationalist terms.
It includes "apostle," "divinely appointed," "prayer warrior," and the Greek word for church, "ekklesia."
“Apostle,” according to Merriam-Webster, has various definitions, one of them “a person who first advocates an important belief system.”
The entries have no direct political overtones unless there’s vivid imagination applied.
Alex McFarland of Alex McFarland Ministries and Exploring the Word on AFR says many of the terms are rooted in the language of warfare.
“The church, intercession, spiritual warfare, prayer warrior, these are part and parcel of the Christian experience because the Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and dominions and spiritual wickedness in high places.”
He doesn't expect the lost souls that work at the Global Project and Southern Poverty Law Center to understand the actual spiritual meaning behind the words.
“The Bible says the Gospel is foolishness to them that are perishing,” McFarland said.
McFarland says it's another example of the Left is appealing to its favorite socialist and communist author and his book.
“Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals says, 'use your enemy's vocabulary against your enemy.’”
McFarland says the Left often strips the words of their actual meanings, weaponizes them as racist or homophobic, or in this case nationalist, and shoves them back at people on the Right rather randomly. But he says it's a good thing those who use the words correctly haven't lost their meanings.
“Being a prayer warrior, it's advantageous, even to the one that objects to the term prayer warrior.”
