Nationalism, Citizenship and Birthright

Nationalism, derived from the Latin for "birth" or "race," is defined as devotion to one's nation, which is in turn defined as "a large aggregate of people associated by common descent, language, culture and history [...] especially when organized as a political State" (OED). Obviously, religion, while more "controversial" than culture, is also a defining parameter of nationhood. "Common descent" necessarily involves racial or ethnic kinship.

Race, religion and nationality are conceptually distinct. But in the real world, they overlap each other substantially, existing in people who partake of all three qualities. Thus, "Hindu" refers to both a religion and a native of Northern India. (OED) Similarly, the religion of the European and American people is Christianity.

The facts that Israel is the Jewish State and that Pakistan is an Islamic State are universally accepted. But the equally obvious idea that the United States is a European Christian Nation has been relentlessly campaigned against for the past fifty years. [1] The global and federal governments, by wielding the weapon of immigration, have tried to destroy America's Christian Nationalism. Why? There are many answers, as will be discussed, but ultimately one overarching truth. Satan's true enemy is the only true religion - Christianity. To destroy its true enemy, Satan must destroy that which protects it - Christian Nationalism.

An individual who owes allegiance to a Nation is a Citizen. The Constitution provides that citizenship can be acquired two ways: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." [2]

Nationalism involves much more than the assertion of citizenship. Citizenship is only the political aspect of nationalism. The federal government tries to pretend that citizenship is the only aspect of nationalism - that as soon as it naturalizes an Islamic immigrant from Indonesia, that person is as much an American as a native born citizen raised in America's European Christian culture.

But some discrimination against naturalized citizens in favor of native born citizens is Constitutionally required - for example, only a "natural born" American can be President of the United States. [3] Another example is that citizenship by birth can never be taken away, while citizenship by naturalization can be. Thus, as the media endlessly remind us, naturalized citizens who conceal war crimes on their application for citizenship can be "denaturalized" and deported. A government that grants citizenship can also take it away. But those born in the United States take their citizenship from their parents, not from the government, and therefore the government cannot take away a born citizen's citizenship.

The concept that those born to a country have superior rights to immigrants to a country is the concept of "birthright."

If a nation were compared to a corporation, viz., that it is a collective entity owned by individuals constituting it, then citizenship is like owning stock in the nation. As a stockowner is entitled to do, the citizen has the power to bequeath his citizenship to his children, by propagating them on his nation's soil. When he dies, his children have their citizenship through him. When the government allows immigration, it creates more citizens, and gives that citizenship away for free. The country then has more owners but does not have more to own. Therefore, immigration dilutes the value of the native citizen's interest in his country. His power to confer valuable citizenship on his children is also diminished. In the law of business corporations, allowing immigration would be equivalent to the crime of "watering stock."

Much of what a nation has is public property. The roads are not the only things that belong to the public. The United States has a physical infrastructure, a legal infrastructure and a financial infrastructure that belongs to the people. The people pay for it with their taxes and their military service, which sometimes requires their death. The government administrates it for the people, but ought not to have the lawful power to give it away, for nothing, to newcomers. The American people are its real owners, and therefore only they should have the power to give it to others.

The born citizen takes his citizenship from his parents. It is of course not the only thing he inherits from them. As part of the natural order, he is raised to speak his parents' language, imbued with his parents' culture, inculcated with his parents' religion. If his parents' generation has these attributes in common, so shall the generation of the born citizen, automatically.

Thus a country comprised only of born citizens will automatically tend to share language, culture and religion. And since citizenship in such a country can be acquired only by descent, only those who share in that common heritage have the right to vote. That is, only those who share in that common heritage have the political right to alter or abolish that heritage.

This natural convergence of common heritage and citizenship is the essence of NATIONALISM. The original meaning of "Nation" is from the Latin "nasci," which means "to be born."

Commonalities of religious belief within one generation, and continuity of religious belief, from one generation to the next, are the natural byproducts of NATIONALISM.

Immigrants acquire citizenship by a process called "naturalization." Unlike born citizens, who take their citizenship from their parents, naturalized citizens take their citizenship from the government.

Since the government chooses who shall receive naturalized citizenship, the government determines the race, religion and language of each new citizen. While a nation of born citizens tend to share those attributes, a nation of naturalized citizens has no built in guarantee of a common heritage.

A political entity that uses immigration and naturalization to attenuate the natural link between citizenship and common heritage is not a NATION but a STATE.

eXile, by advocating Christian Separatism, aspires for Christians to become a nation within a nation. We will re-establish true nationhood for Christians in the United States, at first, by free association among American Christians, and in the end, by the re-establishment of our nation politically, taking back our birthright, after the federal government self-destructs.

[2] United States Constitution, Amendment XIV.

[3] United States Constitution, Article II, Section I.