The bloody ideological instability of the United States – demonstrated this week by the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk – has a root cause that is not widely discussed, except in shallow and polemical ways.

The nation of the United States was built on a faultline

It is theopolitics. That means the relationship of religion and politics. Of course we are mainly talking about Christianity, which has always been the nation’s dominant religion. It’s a pretty complicated topic, but that’s no excuse for not attempting to grapple with it.

There are two main ways in which Christianity relates to politics, and the United States is uniquely conflicted about which of these two should dominate.

For most of Christian history, the assumption has been that a nation needs religious unity, and that a f

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