Here is my last contribution to the CEEBC.

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PATRIOTISM AND NATIONALISM

God created a harmonious world thriving in diversity. In contrast, the biblical story of Babel relates how human beings attempted to oppose God’s intentions in a defiant display of uniformity. Thus, according to Genesis, languages, nations, and tribes were associated with an ignoble beginning, fraught with separation, comparison, competition, and violence. Thousands of years later, at Pentecost, came the spiritual reversal of the fragmentation of human solidarity, as people of different cultural backgrounds were able to understand the message of the apostles with no language barriers. What is more, in the book of Revelation, tribes, nations and languages will remain till the end of time, for they are no longer seen as a curse but as a means of enrichment for God’s glory.Most peop...