Problem:  Trump is claiming to be a Christian.  He is NOT behaving as such or having the concepts of such.  Is he actually a Christian?  He thinks God should do his will upon prayer and not that Trump should be doing things in God’s Will and becoming what God wants us to be as Christians.  So……I researched it. Below is what I found on the topic.

Matthew  7:21-23

“Not everyone who says unto me Lord, Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the Will of My Father which is in Heaven.”

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Salvation is through Jesus Christ’s Sacrifice to pay the sin penalty with God Almighty’s acceptance of that payment —  and our faith in Jesus and acceptance of his paying our sin penalty upon our repentance of our sin at the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  We also MUST DO the Will of God Almighty.

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What does carnal mean biblically?

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In the Bible, carnal refers to the “fleshly” or worldly nature of humanity. Derived from the Latin word for flesh (caro), it describes living according to base human instincts, physical desires, and earthly impulses rather than being guided by the Spirit of God.

Here is how carnal is used in scripture:

• The “Carnal Christian”: In 1 Corinthians 3:1-3, the Apostle Paul describes believers who are still acting like “mere men” as carnal. He points out that their spiritual growth is stunted, leading to jealousy, division, and strife.
• Hostility Toward God: In Romans 8:6-7, Paul states that “to be carnally minded is death” because the fleshly mind is naturally hostile to God and does not submit to His laws..
• Physical vs. Spiritual: It highlights the contrast between physical limitations and spiritual realities, such as in Romans 15:27 where it refers to sharing in material (physical) blessings rather than spiritual ones.

Ultimately, a carnal state indicates a focus on self, worldly pleasures, and the five physical senses. Biblical teaching encourages believers to move away from carnality and allow their minds to be transformed by the Spirit.

{My question is how can you be saved and remain carnal minded and carnal behavior instead of trying to following God’s Will?}

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Source of below: GotQuestions.com

A person can be carnal and be a Christian, as a “carnal Christian” refers to a believer who is genuinely saved but struggles with spiritual immaturity and fleshly desires. However, this condition is viewed as a temporary stage of growth, not a permanent lifestyle of unrepentant sin. Genuine faith is expected to produce spiritual growth, fruit, and good works over time. A life continuously marked by habitual, unrepentant sin with absolutely no desire to follow Christ raises serious questions about the authenticity of a person’s faith.  Will a true Christian remain carnal? No.

Since eternal security is a fact of Scripture, even the carnal Christian is still saved. Salvation cannot be lost, because salvation is a gift of God that He will not take away (see John 10:28; Romans 8:37-39; 1 John 5:13). Even in 1 Corinthians 3:15, the carnal Christian is assured of salvation: “If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.” The question is not whether a person who claims to be a Christian but lives carnally has lost his salvation, but whether that person was truly saved in the first place (1 John 2:19).

Christians who become carnal in their behavior can expect God to lovingly discipline them (Hebrews 12:5-11) so they can be restored to close fellowship with Him and be trained to obey Him. God’s desire in saving us is that we would progressively grow closer to the image of Christ (Romans 12:1-2), becoming increasingly spiritual and decreasingly carnal, a process known as sanctification. Until we are delivered from our sinful flesh, there will be outbreaks of carnality. For a genuine believer in Christ, though, these outbreaks of carnality will be the exception, not the rule.

If a person supports an evil person or even wishes him well, the person doing so is complicit in whatever evil is done even if not doing whatever is done.  God holds you responsible.

So, if you vote for or support [knowingly] a person of sinful behavior you are guilty of whatever their behavior is, concepts are, or consequences of such.

Trump is an evil person even if he waves a Bible, public prays, or has evangelical meetings.  Even Satan can visit God’s Church.  Trump’s behavior, concepts, and rhetoric demonstrates and flaunts his evil daily in the news, broadcasts, and Twitter postings.  He is not of God.  He is anti-God in what he says and does.  It is not just one thing he does and is, it is a lot of things.  There is nothing ever that he says and does that is supportive of God’s Will, System, or Scripture.  The only prayer from him that God will listen to is  repentance with a change of his behavior and concepts.  Unfortunately, he is getting a lot of people in trouble with God and even leading some away from God.

It is unfortunate that his evangelic group apparently does not know God either or they are not telling him of the “true” God and God’s Will.

TRUMP……. it is not too late to repent and become saved and go to Heaven.  Repentance in God’s Will and changing your concepts, inner spirit, and behavior is necessary.

There are many Christians that are either so back slidden they lose their being saved as they never repent ….OR…. they were never actually Christians in the first place.  There will be many “so called” Christians that will hear from Jesus “I never knew you.”

Heaven:

⦁ God rules and everything is God’s way. One cannot use God to do things one’s own way.
⦁ Citizens of Heaven are humble and care about others as well as actually help others.
⦁ One has to repent to go there.
⦁ One has to give praise, glory, and worship to God Almighty there [thru Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ.
⦁ One cannot seek importance, higher positions, fame, popularity, influence.
⦁ One cannot wheel and deal in heaven or use questionable tactics to get what one wants.
⦁ One has to want what God Almighty wants not what one wants.
⦁ By the way, to go to Heaven, one has to repent one’s sins, accept Jesus as savior [paid sin penalty], and freely accept doing everything God Almighty’s Way!

Satan’s World [if he won, which he won’t]

⦁ One would have to worship and do Satan’s will and not one’s own will. Satan’s will is not good for humans.
⦁ One cannot seek importance, higher positions, fame, popularity, influence. Satan is in charge.
⦁ One would need Satan’s permission to do anything especially wheel and deal.
⦁ One would have to interact with very bad entities and situations.
⦁ By the way, if one chooses this path, one ends up in Hell, Judgement, and Lake of Fire.

Non-existence [dissipation of all energy and essence of what makes a human – other than body that goes in Earth] — or atheist

⦁ One cannot seek importance, higher positions, fame, popularity, influence
⦁ One is just gone and dissipated into the cosmos where all is dispersed.
⦁ By the way, if one chooses this path, one ends up in Hell, Judgement, and Lake of Fire.

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Hell [awaiting judgement, punishment, and disolvement]

⦁ One is supervised by good angels so one cannot do whatever one wants to do. Hell is run God’s Way by God’s Angels not Satan’s Angels or Demons.
⦁ One will be in small location and solitary confinement, without company, community, fellowships, or friendships.
⦁ One does not have a sense of purpose or accomplishment.
⦁ One has little to do except remember one’s life and the now absence of amenities one once had. [regrets are remembered].
⦁ One has a life of minimal existence [no amenities].
⦁ One is probably bored with nothing interesting to do [agonizingly dull] [utter inactivity]
⦁ One is realizing diminishing person hood and knowledge of insignificance
⦁ There is the absence of God and all that is good. One knows one is going to Judgement, punishment, and the Lake of Fire [either alive or dead]
⦁ One knows one has lead many to the same situation and one is punished for leading them to such so one gets maximum punishments [maybe thrown into Lake of Fire alive or for longer time before dissolving body]. Example is AntiChrist and his False Prophet.
⦁ One knows that whatever one did on Earth during one’s life is gone, not-remembered, and made no lasting significance. There will be no lasting legacy or importance to anything done, built, or created. Earth and all on it will eventually be burned up, melted, and exist no longer. “Earth and Heavens will pass away”.
⦁ It will probably be warm [one will not be in fire] as Hell is in the inner Earth somewhere either in this dimension or another dimension. One will be in spirit bodies of some kind as one’s Earthly body will be buried, cremated, or whatever. In one’s spirit body, one can withstand and endure such warmth, but will most likely not like it.
⦁ One will NOT be tortured by anyone or anything as Hell is probably one of the most safe places that exist – while one is there. one will not be in torment except by possibly by one’s own doing or one’s own memories, regrets, and response to no amenities. However, on in Hell will receive stripes for what he/she did on Earth with the number of stripes dependent on evil done on Earth and those one led to the same fate.
⦁ etc

Jesus IS righteous therefore when you are “in” Jesus you are righteous.

Being “in” Jesus is having faith and trusting Jesus.
Our spirits inflate with the presence of God, and that new Spirit crowds out the old ways.

Our desires change. Our outlook changes. Where we once lived only to satisfy ourselves, we now have a longing to please God Almighty thru Jesus and glorify God Almighty(1 Corinthians 10:31).
Christians need to involve themselves with other believers in order to remain healthy and productive.

Satan cannot steal a soul that belongs to God Almighty (John 10:29), but he can render our lives useless for the kingdom by convincing us that we don’t need fellowship, spiritual encouragement, or challenge from anyone else. He likes to stir up trouble, bitterness, disappointment, pride, and a critical spirit to keep lone sheep away from the flock (Ephesians 4:30–31; 1 Peter 2:1; Colossians 3:5–10). Then he attacks them with discouragement, temptation, and deception to eliminate any heavenly treasure that loner could have stored up for himself (Matthew 6:20; 10:41; Luke 12:33; Revelation 22:12).

We will spend all eternity worshiping God Almighty with other redeemed saints of God. We might as well learn to enjoy it now.

Either Trump ignores his Christian Advisors or he needs better ones.  He is not currently “of God” in his policies, concepts, or behaviors.

If he ever was a Christian, he has back slid so far he is lost to God.  He is not doing anything God’s way or in God’s Will.

A person cannot USE God for their own agenda.  A Christian does God’s agenda and in God’s methods.

Again……Trump NEEDS advisors that know God and God’s Will and Ways.

If a person wants God to listen and respond to their sincere prayer, it has to be as a humble, repentant willing to do things God’s Way, a believer who is saved through Jesus Christ person.  The person also has to be willing to change their ways to God’s Will and not their own.  God does NOT do things OUR way, but we are to to things GOD’S WAY.

The only prayer that an unsaved person can pray and expect God to listen to is the one where the person is repentant and asking God through Jesus Christ for salvation.  In doing so, their intention would need to be to do things in the future God’s Way and follow his commandments.  They should also be willing  to change and not intentionally sin thereafter.

Trump can have all the prayer meetings in the Oval Office that he wants, but it is unlikely that God is listening or going to respond in a positive manner.  Again, things are to be God’s Way, NOT Trumps Way.

Trump bringing Church and State closer together is an untrue statement.Trump is bringing Satan and Business closer to State. Unless Trump is worshiping Satan and Business [Business is mostly based in Satan] as his Church, he is not bringing Church and State closer.

World leaders are currently being influenced by Fallen Angels with or without their permission or knowledge.  Re-phrased, Fallen Angels are trying to influence ALL World Leaders and not for the good of Earth or humans.

If Trump was raised Presbyterian, Trump has NO EXCUSE for his concepts, goals, or behaviors.  He should know he is in deep trouble and not a practicing believer of God.  If you ARE saved, you cannot CONTINUE in sin. Being saved does not give you permission to sin.  Also, if Trump is waiting for his death bed thinking he can then ask for forgiveness and go to Heaven, he is wrong.  You cannot trick God into letting you sin and with insincerity then on a deathbed ask for forgiveness.  You also cannot work your way to Heaven or think you can sin and do a good deed to balance the sin so God won’t count it as sin.  Those saved on their deathbed were sincere at the time and did not try to trick God along the way.

Trump is using the Presidency for his own agenda.  Congress and the Supreme Court are playing politics rather than doing their jobs.  They are just kissing Trump’s ass.  None of them is doing their jobs.

They all should be replaced with someone who wants and will try to do their job.

The World holds all of America responsible for Trump and the government’s concepts and actions.  Most of the citizens of the USA do not have a say in what Trump or his administration does, but we are hated or its behavior.  World citizens think we elected him so we are responsible for him.  Some of us did not vote for him, and some who did vote for him now regret it.  We are hated because of Trump, MAGA, and the GOP.

Prophecy says that our country will eventually go into captivity by those who hate us.  As the USA is being isolated from our allies and they are being turned against the USA, it is a very real threat.  America cannot stand alone.  It is certainly reasonable for the USA to go into captivity.  It often seems we are now in captivity to very evil groups backed by our own government.

Bottom line:  A President of the USA is in office to lead the country in what is good for the country and its citizens.  There are three units of the US government for a good reason — to keep this current situation from happening.  If the three units were doing their jobs, then the current situation would not exist.

A President should not have or use the military or governmental groups for his OWN agenda, but for the good of the USA.

America should not have to worry about its vote being counted, meaningful, or existent.  A President should not be manipulating votes or destroying the voting system.

Therefore, we have NO President, but do have an out-of-control tyrannical ruler — a terrorist overlord.

Question: When is civil disobedience allowed for a Christian?  [FROM:  gotquestions.org]

Answer: The emperor of Rome from AD 54 to 68 was Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known simply as Nero. The emperor was not known for being a moral and ethical person, to say the least. In AD 64 the great Roman fire occurred, with Nero himself being suspected of arson. In his writings, the Roman senator and historian Tacitus recorded, “To get rid of the report [that he had started the fire], Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace” (Annals, XV).

It was during the reign of Nero that the apostle Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans. While one might expect him to encourage the Christians in Rome to rise up against their oppressive ruler, in chapter 13, we find this instead:

“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor” (Romans 13:1–7).

Even under the reign of a ruthless and godless emperor, Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, tells his readers to be in subjection to the government. Moreover, he states that no authority exists other than that established by God, and that rulers are serving God in their political office.

Peter writes nearly the same thing in one of his two New Testament letters:

“Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king” (1 Peter 2:13–17).

Both Paul’s and Peter’s teachings have led to quite a few questions from Christians where civil disobedience is concerned. Do Paul and Peter mean that Christians are always to submit to whatever the government commands, no matter what is asked of them?

A Brief Look at the Various Views of Civil Disobedience
There are at least three general positions on the matter of civil disobedience. The anarchist view says that a person can choose to disobey the government whenever he likes and whenever he feels he is personally justified in doing so. Such a stance has no biblical support whatsoever, as evidenced in the writings of Paul in Romans 13.

The extremist patriot says that a person should always follow and obey his country, no matter what the command. As will be shown in a moment, this view also does not have biblical support. Moreover, it is not supported in the history of nations. For example, during the Nuremberg trials, the attorneys for the Nazi war criminals attempted to use the defense that their clients were only following the direct orders of the government and therefore could not be held responsible for their actions. However, one of the judges dismissed their argument with the simple question: “But gentlemen, is there not a law above our laws?”

The position the Scriptures uphold is one of biblical submission, with a Christian being allowed to act in civil disobedience to the government if it commands evil, such that it requires a Christian to act in a manner that is contrary to the clear teachings and requirements of God’s Word.

Civil Disobedience—Examples in Scripture
In Exodus 1, the Egyptian Pharaoh gave the clear command to two Hebrew midwives that they were to kill all male Jewish babies. An extreme patriot would have carried out the government’s order, yet the Bible says the midwives disobeyed Pharaoh and “feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live” (Exodus 1:17). The Bible goes on to say the midwives lied to Pharaoh about why they were letting the children live; yet even though they lied and disobeyed their government, “God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them” (Exodus 1:20–21).

In Joshua 2, Rahab directly disobeyed a command from the king of Jericho to produce the Israelite spies who had entered the city to gain intelligence for battle. Instead, she let them down via a rope so they could escape. Even though Rahab had received a clear order from the top government official, she resisted the command and was redeemed from the city’s destruction when Joshua and the Israeli army destroyed it.

The book of 1 Samuel records a command given by King Saul during a military campaign that no one could eat until Saul had won his battle with the Philistines. However, Saul’s son Jonathan, who had not heard the order, ate honey to refresh himself from the hard battle the army had waged. When Saul found out about it, he ordered his son to die. However, the people resisted Saul and his command and saved Jonathan from being put to death (1 Samuel 14:45).

Another example of civil disobedience in keeping with biblical submission is found in 1 Kings 18. That chapter briefly introduces a man named Obadiah who “feared the Lord greatly.” When the queen Jezebel was killing God’s prophets, Obadiah took a hundred of them and hid them from her so they could live. Such an act was in clear defiance of the ruling authority’s wishes.

In 2 Kings, the only apparently approved revolt against a reigning government official is recorded. Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, began to destroy the royal offspring of the house of Judah. However, Joash the son of Ahaziah was taken by the king’s daughter and hidden from Athaliah so that the bloodline would be preserved. Six years later, Jehoiada gathered men around him, declared Joash to be king, and put Athaliah to death.

Daniel records a number of civil disobedience examples. The first is found in chapter 3 where Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow down to the golden idol in disobedience to King Nebuchadnezzar’s command. The second is in chapter 6 where Daniel defies King Darius’ decree to not pray to anyone other than the king. In both cases, God rescued His people from the death penalty that was imposed, signaling His approval of their actions.

In the New Testament, the book of Acts records the civil disobedience of Peter and John towards the authorities that were in power at the time. After Peter healed a man born lame, Peter and John were arrested for preaching about Jesus and put in jail. The religious authorities were determined to stop them from teaching about Jesus; however, Peter said, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:19–20). Later, the rulers confronted the apostles again and reminded them of their command to not teach about Jesus, but Peter responded, “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).

One last example of civil disobedience is found in the book of Revelation where the Antichrist commands all those who are alive during the end times to worship an image of himself. But the apostle John, who wrote Revelation, states that those who become Christians at the time will disobey the Antichrist and his government and refuse to worship the image (Revelation 13:15) just as Daniel’s companions violated Nebuchadnezzar’s decree to worship his idol.

Civil Disobedience—Conclusion
What conclusions can be drawn from the above biblical examples? The guidelines for a Christian’s civil disobedience can be summed as follows:

• • Christians should resist a government that commands or compels evil and should work nonviolently within the laws of the land to change a government that permits evil.
  • Civil disobedience is permitted when the government’s laws or commands are in direct violation of God’s laws and commands.
  • If a Christian disobeys an evil government, unless he can flee from the government, he should accept that government’s punishment for his actions.
  • Christians are certainly permitted to work to install new government leaders within the laws that have been established.

Lastly, Christians are commanded to pray for their leaders and for God to intervene in His time to change any ungodly path that they are pursuing: “First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity” (1 Timothy 2:1–2).

God Almighty [physically] does not live in America with American citizenship.  He exists as a spirit-bodied entity in the spirit realm.  Jesus is initially from the same location and existence and was born as a human in Israel as a Jew.  He never went through American naturalization.  The Holy Spirit is from the same location and existence.

Christians [hopefully there are many in America] accept the Holy Spirit in their hearts when they are saved through Jesus Christ, so such Christians are harboring a non-citizen in their soul and bodies.  ICE would probably like to arrest all Christians as harboring someone who does not have American citizenship and deport them to who knows where.

Also, Jesus was and is not white. He is and will always be Jewish as a race.  Trump is a “white supremacist.”  Jesus was in Egypt as a child and passed as a native, so his skin is not white in color.  When Jesus returns to Earth as King of Kings, He will rule from Israel during the 1000-year reign and eternity.

When on Earth, Jesus Christ died for our sins.  He suffered because of who He is/was.  The Trump Administration would do the same according to their policies regarding “troublemakers”, “non-white”, and not agreeing with Trump at all times.  Trump would want Jesus to agree with Him and not Trump to agree with Jesus [God’s Almighty’s WILL].

Jesus always treated women with respect and importance.  He wanted women saved as well as men.  Women were used by Jesus at times to witness to everyone [even men].

In Heaven women will be treated the same as men, both in importance and duties.  Everyone in Heaven is treated the same.

In reality, some men might be able to be the head of household, but in many cases they are not.  Many men do not understand God or his ways, and especially not the scriptures.  Some men are stupid, some are anti-Christ, some just don’t care, and some only care for themselves. Some households should have the man/women roles reversed due to capabilities of each. Women are to be helpmates. That also includes leading when men are incapable of doing so and/or having input into decisions.

It seems that Hegseth only cares about himself and his ideas, rather than God’s Will.  I suggest he read the Bible more thoroughly.  Women and children are to be taken into account and listened to when decisions are made. [even by men]

Also, some households are composed of single people. Some are women alone.

In God’s Ways, women have a say [and opinion] that they can express even in marriage, and it should be seriously considered.

I do not hate Trump.  I feel sorry for him.

He pretends to have a relationship with God.  He does a prayer on the media, but it is a fake prayer.  He has no connection to God whatsoever, except that God still offers him forgiveness through repentance.  To receive forgiveness, Trump would have to change his ways, which he is unlikely to do anyway.

However, Trump should be impeached as soon as possible before he does more harm to America, democracy, the Constitution, and the World.  He should be removed from the Presidency and all influence on America in any way possible.

America is going to be taken into Captivity per prophesy [as a country with descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel].

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Captivity according to the Bible is one taken in war. Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity
( 1 Kings 20:32 ; Joshua 10:24 ; Judges 1:7 ; 2 Sam. 4:12 ; Judges 8:7 ; 2 Sam 12:31 ; 1 Chronicles 20:3 ).

Captivity is the state or period of being held, imprisoned, enslaved, or confined.
In those societies with captives, the norm is not the permanent alienation of nor dishonor for captives, but rather the transformation, via indoctrination and adoptive kinship, of captives into group members.

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Dictionary Definitions:

• confinement
• internment
• incarceration
• custody
• detention
• restraint
• constraint
• committal
• arrest
• bondage
• slavery
• servitude
• enslavement
• subjugation
• subjection
• thralldom
• thrall
• duress
• durance

The opposite of captivity is freedom.

Captivity is the condition of being trapped or confined. Animals that are kept in zoos are in captivity. A prisoner is in captivity, and a kidnapping victim is also in captivity. If you catch a firefly and keep it in a jar, its life will be one of captivity until you let it go.

Thralldom refers to a state of bondage, slavery, or servitude, where a person is under the control of another. It signifies being enslaved or subjected to another’s domination. The word is closely related to “thrall,” which describes a person in such a state of bondage.

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My Opinion is that we are already on our way to authoritarian [favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom and is power is concentrated in the hands of one person or a small group, include monarchy, oligarchy, dictatorship, and theocracy. ], or a fascist government [a far-right political ideology and movement characterized by strong authoritarianism, nationalism, and a dictatorial leader. It often involves a belief in a natural social hierarchy, suppression of opposition, and subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation.]