Exploration of the concepts and arguments surrounding the rise of Christian Nationalism Christian nationalism now dominates in the USA and in Russia such that Christian values have been overtaken by the imperatives of maintaining political power at the expense of the example of Christ, his humility and his care of others upon which our successful, multi-millenial, Christian communities have been based. The Cape of Good Hope Nationalist Christianity is not new but the setting up of the Dutch East India Company in what was then known as the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 set the scene for a complex history of land take-over from native Khoikhoi accompanied by warfare, the use of local people for cheap labour in the mining industry and then the imposition of ideas of separation between the native population, the Dutch colonisers and other immigrant groups. This seems to have been based on a fear by the Dutch of being absorbed into the local, native cultures which they regarded a...