“Do you think it was just luck that a poorly organized militia was able to defeat the Royal British Empire?”

I suppose France had nothing to do with it…

At any rate, this kind of nationalistic civil religion can’t help but bring to mind the Cult of the Emperor in Rome in the first century. You could worship any god you wanted, as long as you also recognized the divinity of the emperor. He was called a savior, but not for the oppressed people upon which his empire was built; his military conquests were called “good news" (euangelion) but not to the people who had been brutally conquered. Poverty, starvation, oppression and loss of ancestral land to support the new urban wealthy were its hallmarks.

The very things that Jesus contrasted with his kingdom of God.