This guy evidently never heard of voluntary martyrdom and the zeal for it in early Christianity

Christian Nihilism is Taking Over American Life

Luke Lyman The Spectator

 ... A saint isn’t supposed to ask to be martyred. ... 

Let's see: Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna, the Voluntary Martyrs of Asia under the Proconsul Arrius Antoninus, the Martyrs of Palestine, Perpetua, Saturus, and Felicity, Timolaus and his companions . . . 

They were a big problem in early Christianity, but the author doesn't seem to know that, either.

Meanwhile, the article feels overwrought and hysterical, erecting a giant straw man of leftists all over the place consciously copying Christianity in thrall to some kind of mad death wish, when what we're really talking about is just liberal Minnesota, which we wouldn't be talking about had the Trump administration not deliberately targeted it and murdered two protestors there, one shot in her left temple through the side window of her car, the other shot multiple times in the back.

The nihilism on display is all the government's, not the people's.

There may be Christian nihilism aplenty in Minneapolis, I don't really know, but this author never establishes the actual Christian bona fides of any of the principal nihilistic actors so that he may legitimately call any of them "Christian nihilists" who self-consciously pattern themselves on the religion in their confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. 

How anyone could do that though is a mystery, since nihilists reject all religious and moral principles. 

Christian nihilism is an oxymoron, coined by a moron.

Pope Francis: In communism he found the same aspect of the social he found in the doctrine of the Church

To paraphrase Oswald Spengler, there is no contradiction between Roman Catholic social doctrine and Bolshevism.

Pope Che, quoted here:

“She often read Communist Party texts to me and gave them to me to read. So I also got to know that very materialistic conception. I remember that she also gave me the statement from the American Communists in defense of the Rosenbergs, who had been sentenced to death,” he has said. Learning about communism, he said, “through a courageous and honest person was helpful. I realized a few things, an aspect of the social, which I then found in the social doctrine of the Church.” As the archbishop of Buenos Aires, he took pride in helping her hide the family’s Marxist literature from the authorities who were investigating her. According to the author James Carroll, Bergoglio smuggled her communist books, including Marx’s Das Kapital, into a “Jesuit library.”

Panentheism is the logical conclusion of fully realized eschatology

It takes a special form of delusional thinking in its own right to mistake what is for the kingdom of God:

Only an arrogant, delusional Jesus would have claimed divinity or predicted resurrection, Borg noted, adding, “We have categories of psychology for people who talk that way about themselves. ... [W]e and everything that is are in God. God is not something else. God is right here and all around us. We are within God. The best way to refer to God is You, the You who is right here.”

-- the late Marcus Borg, quoted here

The Grandmothers Of Bolshevism Celebrate ObamaCare

"[W]e are convinced that health care is not a privilege, reserved for those who can afford it, but a right that should be available, at high quality, to all."

-- National Council of Churches

"[A] huge step in the right direction [single payer health care] and we celebrate provisions in that law that continue to fill the gaps and expand existing health care, particularly to low-income Americans."

-- United Methodist Board of Church and Society

"We rejoice today as the Supreme Court rules to uphold [the] constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act."

"[S]ingle payer [is the] best vehicle for providing such health care resources."

-- Presbyterian Church USA 

"The Supreme Court decision today is a clear signal that we as a country are moving toward the realm of God on earth -- the realm of this merciful, compassionate God, full of love for all."

-- United Church of Christ

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"Now, all Communist systems in the West are in fact derived from Christian theological thought: More's Utopia, the Sun State of the Dominica Campanella, the doctrines of Luther's disciples Karlstadt and Thomas Münzer, and Fichte's State Socialism. What Fourier, Saint-Simon, Owen, Marx, and hundreds of others dreamed and wrote on the ideals of the future reaches back, quite without their knowledge and much against their intention, to priestly-moral indignation and Schoolmen concepts, which had their secret part in economic reasoning and in public opinion on social questions. How much of Thomas Aquinas' law of nature and conception of State is still to be found in Adam Smith and therefore - with the opposite sign - in the Communist Manifesto! Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism. All abstract brooding over economic concepts that are remote from any economic experience must, if courageously and honestly followed out, lead in one way or another to reasoned conclusions against State and property, and only lack of vision saves these materialist Schoolmen from seeing that at the end of their chain of thought stands the beginning once more: effective Communism is authoritative bureaucracy. To put through the ideal requires dictatorship, reign of terror, armed force, the inequality of a system of masters and slaves, men in command and men in obedience - in short: Moscow."

-- Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision, 1933