[Ederico]

Personally, although I am not found of his Anti-Christian ideas, I find much credit in Ernest Renan's view which should be coupled with Ethnic Nationalism.

Roger Brubacker's analysis is very much appropriate to what I understand by Nationalism and the point by Adrian Hastings provided below has much credit to it I believe:

"Religion is an integral element of many cultures, most ethnicities and some states. The Bible provided, for the Christian world at least, the original model of the nation. Without it and its Christian interpretation and implementation, it is arguable that nations and nationalism, as we know them, could never have existed. Moreover, religion has produced the dominant character of some state-shaped nations and of some nationalisms. Biblical Christianity both undergirds the cultural and political world out of which the phenomena of nationhood and nationalism as a whole developed and in a number of important cases provided a crucial ingredient for the particular history of both nations and nationalisms."


To highlight my Nationalist views however I quote myself from two previous threads on the subject of National Identities and Nationalism:


"I voted "present-day national identities are halfway true, just needing reinforcement or re-nationalization" because that is the case for Malta. Malta must return to its sane Latin identification and not simply Maltese and European, we must regrasp our Italian heritage as well. Yes Re-Nationalization is the correct description for the process needed, I would also term it Cultural Re-Invigoration. I requote my signature from the manifesto of the Partito Nazionalista (1947):

"It is common knowledge that, in order to combat the denationalizing policy of the Imperial Government which would have us dealt with as if we were of Arabic or Levantine descent and would therefore do away with all the characteristics of our glorious Latin civilization, the Nationalist Party must necessarily defend also our Italian culture, now hundreds of years old""

"I am best described as a Nazionalista (Nationalist). Occasionally I am associated with Fascismo because of my sentiments of Latinità and Italianità which in Malta, get errenously associated with Fascismo, thanks to English manipulations on my beloved people. My greatest source of inspiration is il Dottor Enrico Mizzi, whom I describe as "Patriota Pur u Nazionalista Per Eccellenza" (Pure Patriot and Nationalist Par Excellence)

I am Roman Catholic and morally Conservative, and I believe that Catholic Morality fits my spirit and that is positive for Communal Spirit."