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C. S. Lewis On Nationalism & Racism

“On the lunatic fringe it [#nationalism] may shade off into that popular Racialism which Christianity and science equally forbid.”

— C. S. Lewis

The Dangers of Nationalism According to C.S. Lewis

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C.S. Lewis on Patriotism and How it Can Turn Demonic - The Wardrobe Door
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Finally, there’s a point where patriotism bleeds lawlessness. “When the natural loves become lawless,” Lewis says, “they do not merely do harm to other loves; they themselves cease to be the loves they were—to be loves at all.”

"Patriotism in its best sense builds on the love we feel in a family with a sense of loving those outside – our neighbors. Jesus commands us to love our neighbors and that begins next door, on our street, at the community center. Lewis says that this produces the “spiritual ...

.... muscles which Grace may later put to a higher service.”

In the best circumstances, we also realize that others in other countries feel the same way about their country, and there’s a leveled respect for, “the Frenchmen like café complet just as we like bacon and eggs,” ...

... ... because, as Lewis says, “It would not be home unless it were different."

The Case for Diversity

"The state prefers to endorse a uniform, homogenized culture, as such a culture would be simple to identify and easy to control."

Romila Thapar, Nationalism

The Case Against EXCLUSIVE Nationalism

by Professor Romila Thapar

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"The state prefers to endorse a uniform, homogenized culture, as such a culture would be simple to identify and easy to control."

Romila Thapar, Nationalism

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