This page invited responses to the following questions, and contains links to answers by various writers. Note that this was written in 2010, and is not influenced by later events.
Recently it has been alleged that politically conservative evangelicals have conflated their political agenda with their faith and their preferred political party with the church of Christ. The participants at Tea Party events, and the recent "Restoring Honor" rally assembled before the Lincoln Memorial by Glenn Beck and others such as David Barton, have been disproportionately evangelical. Are they guilty of confusing love of God and love of country, or the conservative ideal with the kingdom of God?
If you Google "When does patriotism pass over into idolatry?", you can also find quite a few responses that are not listed on the above page.1) When does patriotism pass over into idolatry? How do we define America-worship? What is the difference between loving, honoring, and worshiping America?
2) What are the healthy and unhealthy ways of relating politics and religion?
3) And what is the evidence that politically conservative evangelicals have become guilty of America-worship and wrongly relating their politics and their faith?
Which responses make sense to you? Can you read through some of these responses and point to one or two that you identify with? If you had to write a response, what would you say?