According to Scripture, clans are kinship groups, formed by the union of households bound together through bloodline and shared ancestry (often from a patriarch).

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Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), a Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and former Mayor of Birmingham, advocated for governmental unity predicated on kindred relationships and common ancestral origins.

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Cakes don’t just appear, they’re baked; ethnicities don’t just appear, they’re formed.

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Charlie Downes, the Spokesman and Campaigns Director at Restore Britain, a writer for The Daily Mail, and a contributor to GB News, LBC, TalkTV, and Lotus Eaters, espouses the Kinist understanding of a nation as an entity predicated upon kinship, growing from households to extended families to tribes.

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Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925), a colonial administrator, High Commissioner for South Africa, and member of the War Cabinet, advocated for provision on account of national kinship relation.

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The nucleus of society, according to Scripture, is the household: a kinship bond predicated on marital union.

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Ethnogenesis isn’t sinful in itself, but like procreation, it can be righteous (i.e. natural) or sinful (i.e. unnatural), depending on how it occurs.

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The Naturalization Act of 1790 was the first U.S. law to define who could become a citizen. Signed into law by George Washington himself, the act highlights how the Founders perceived a degree of common kinship as integral to the state.

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Ethnic identity, like any complex thing, is made from parts — but that doesn’t make it fake. Just as ingredients make a cake, ancestry, culture, and history form a people.

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Plato (427–347 BC), educated under Socrates in Athens, was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and foundational political theorist. In his work The Republic he recognised the importance of a shared kindred feeling within society.

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Happy Lord’s day! Praying that everyone may experience a joyful and Merry Christmas with their kin this week.

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Scripture reveals a twofold kinship: by flesh (natural) and by Spirit (Spiritual). Understanding this distinction is necessary to rightly understand Christian moral and social duty.

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John Calvin (1509-1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation. He recognised the twofold nature of kinship and urged continual faithfulness to both man’s natural and spiritual relations.

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In a disaster, those nearest spatially are of most help, that’s obvious. To claim this overrides natural affection for kin or applies to all of life, however, is a gross leap in logic and interpretation.

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Property theory examines how claims to land are morally and socially justified, recognising that land has no inherent owner at a natural or microscopic level. It asks what gives a people the right to claim, hold, and belong to a land.

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St. Augustine (354-430) was a North African bishop, theologian, and philosopher whose writings profoundly shaped Western Christianity. He likewise recognised a twofold kinship: one of blood and one of religion (i.e. faith).

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In Scripture, nations are understood as kinship relations rather than civic ones.

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Sir Henry Parkes (1815-1896) was an Australian politician and statesman, widely regarded as the “Father of Federation” for his leading role in uniting the Australian colonies. He too stressed the value of kindred feeling within society.

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