Ordinarily, I avoid talking about politics like the plague. And I never dreamed that I would be writing about American politics on a Bible blog.
And yet, I read in the news recently that former President Donald Trump is endorsing the God Bless the USA Bible.
To make matters more confusing, there is also another Bible called the We the People Bible, which is endorsed by…. Donald Trump Jr. I kid you not.
You may be tempted to think, these are fringe Bibles. No mainstream Bible publisher would publish a Bible like this! Except, Thomas Nelson began publishing The American Patriot’s Bible back in 2009, and it is still in print.
Even the American Bible Society began publishing the Faith and Liberty Bible in 2021.
So what should we make of these “patriotic” study Bibles? Should we be happy that the Bible is being promoted at the national level, and more people might read it? Should we be concerned about incorporating American patriotism into a study Bible?
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