The church needs to keep crystal clear loyalties, excluding any non-biblical insertion into Christian doctrine. Manipulators use values similar or even identical to those in the Bible to get Christians to back their agendas. For instance, no two themes are more universal in world religions than the sanctity of the family and the sacredness of the given cultural-national heritage. Oriental religion often actually worships parents and ancestors. Islam views the state as expressly a religious entity.
Most oral religions are one and the same as the government of the tribe.
This has tended to be true of Christianity as well in Europe. The medieval church was convinced that the state was to operate under the spiritual authority of the church. Linking the universal appeal of blood and soil values with patriotic values and religion leads to the formation of a civil religion which is sometimes only nominally Christian. It is easy to see why people begin to believe that Christianity is synonymous with American citizenship or church membership. This nominal Christianity is one of the most deadly threats to real Christianity for two reasons.