Can we justifiably say...

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I remain very grateful to my Catholic upbringing and education for giving me relative immunity to nationalism. In the 1950s, the nuns who taught me from age five to twelve were virtually all Irish or Irish-American with sentimental attachment to certain elements of Celtic folklore, but they made sure to inculcate into us that the only serious human society was the Church which was an explicitly international organization. The mass, in the international language, Latin, was the same everywhere; the religious orders were international. This absence of national limitation was something very much to be cherished. “Catholica” in the phrase “[credo in] unam, sanctam, catholicam, et apostolicam ecclesiam” should, we were told, be written with a lower-case, not an upper-case, initial because it was not in the first instance part of the proper name of the church, but an adjective meaning “universal,” and this universality was one of the most important “marks of the true Church.”

Then tell me this... can we not say--or at least question--that those who profess Nationalism fail to have heeded Paul's call of universalism? Is it not un-christian to pit one klan over another? If you believe in a historicist approach to Christianity I guess not--you are the chosen people. If you believe in the ethics of jesus and that Christianity is an action not some political propaganda to spew about I might speculate that you must.