That Moment When A Monster Stops To "Think"

"I was thinking the other day when I read that Nidal Hasan had told colleagues that he was 'Muslim first, American second,' that Hasan had that exactly right. If any Jew or Christian would put his national identity over his religious identity, he is an idolater and should repent. I pray that I will in all times and at every opportunity choose fidelity to God over fidelity to nation. The thing is, as a Christian, one has pretty much never had to make that choice. I do not worry, and indeed honor, the Muslim soldier who places God above country -- but only as long as there is no serious conflict between serving both. If he believes that serving God precludes him from serving his country in the military, that is a very, very big problem.

If we ever get to the place where serious Christians have to choose between serving God and serving the nation -- as German Christians had to choose in the Nazi years -- America is over ... unless, of course, the church becomes co-opted by nationalism, as the Nazis managed to do in their day. I don't think it would be all that difficult to do today, I'm sorry to say. But give it time. The country may well be changing in ways that will make it harder and harder for even halfway serious Christians to identify with the regime. What then for Christians in America? And: is this 'diversity is our strength' mantra really a tacit admission that diversity -- insofar as it implies that what divides us should be more important than what unites us -- is feared as our weakness?"

-- Rod Dreher, getting so "wooly in the head" - while discussing the pros and cons of NewAge multiculturalism - that he should be damned to forever sporting an afro, on Belief.net.