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I'd like you, my fellow critics of Christianity (inside and out) to let me know what you think about this essay.

Is it logical to conceive of patriotism as a positive value? Doesn't it depend on the way in which it is conceived: a blind patriotism cannot be any better than the worst practices fostered by a country, but a critical patriotism might be able to rescue what is good without buying in to all of the bad things.