NATIONALISM
(See also Flag Salute; National Anthems; Neutrality; Patriotism)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
Africa: yb77 261
Assyria: w68 141
attitude of early Christians toward: sj 12; w75 497
attitude of Jehovah’s Witnesses toward: w75 496-498; w74 734; g73 8/22 13-14
Babylon: w65 12; yb65 18
beginning: w74 597
Bible view: sj 13-15; w80 6/15 7; w75 496-498; w65 4-6, 9; ms 199; yb65 6-9, 13-14; g64 9/22 12-13; w59 557-558; w58 54; w55 62
Black Nationalism: g64 8/22 28
development: w65 7-9, 14; yb65 10-13, 22-23
discussion: g76 7/8 13-14
divisive force: g81 10/8 4-5; g64 5/22 6; g64 8/22 30; g64 9/22 9-11; g61 9/22 30; g61 10/8 15-16; w55 62-63
effect on world map: g62 6/8 10-11
exaltation of one’s nation: g81 10/8 4-5; w65 8; yb65 12; g64 12/22 24; g63 6/8 26; w59 555; w58 622-623; w57 136; g35 8/14 724
experiences:
boy tells teacher what anthem is: yb78 12
former military man accepts truth: g74 10/22 11
flag salute: sj 13-15; w79 9/1 15; w75 217; g71 9/8 12-15; g64 9/22 11; g63 8/8 5-15; w57 136; lg 242-243; g34 8/1 695
experiences: yb78 69-70, 91-92, 125-126, 128-129, 157-158, 236-237
increase: g79 2/22 11; g73 2/8 30
Jews who rejected Jesus: w65 6; yb65 7-8
meaning of term: w66 344-345; w65 4; yb65 5; g64 9/22 9
Olympic Games: g73 2/22 13-14; g72 10/22 29
called “a carnival of nationalism”: g84 5/8 29-30
overcoming with true worship: g85 4/8 12; w80 6/15 10; g79 2/22 13-15; g64 5/22 7; g63 8/8 23
Quebec premier’s comment on: w78 8/15 7
religion’s support of: g81 10/8 4-5; g64 9/22 11-12
results: w85 8/15 10; g84 8/22 29; g81 10/8 4-5; w77 627; w75 612; og 5; g75 3/22 4, 29; w74 734; g74 4/8 19, 31; g73 10/8 13; g71 3/8 13-14; g69 6/22 31; g69 10/8 16; w68 141; w65 8; yb65 12; g65 5/22 6; w64 612
Africa: w81 5/15 30
sports:
cause of spectator violence: w85 9/15 13
symbolic representation: w74 733-734
World War I: g73 6/22 10-11; g70 5/8 9
World War II: yb75 182
Quotations
a mental disease: g76 7/8 13
an idiotic exercise in artificial loyalty: w79 7/15 27
anthems and flags give rise to blind love of country and fanatic nationalism: w77 627
divides humanity into mutually intolerant units: w75 496
divides people, destroys the good side of human nature: g84 8/22 29
high time to get rid of practices that divide world: w77 627
it is the archvillain of all the evils: g84 8/22 29
many problems due to narrow nationalism—‘my country, right or wrong’: g76 7/8 13-14; w75 496
must equate national allegiance with a broader loyalty to all of mankind: w76 167
national entities always look after themselves: w75 516
nationalism’s central object of worship is the flag: sj 13-14; g76 9/8 4
religion is but one form of nationalism: w82 12/15 11
strong reassertions of nationalism: g79 2/22 11
the established American religion—worship of the state: w79 9/1 15
the measles of the human race: w79 7/15 27
very difficult to attain peace by the exercise of Law and Justice because of: w80 2/15 30