Beneath the long genealogies and idealized kings of 1 Chronicles lies a blueprint for something very modern: sanitized nationalism—the deliberate crafting of a clean, unifying story to bind a wounded people. This isn’t just biblical history. It’s the logic behind cable news, political mythmaking, and the boundaries we still draw between “us” and “them.” We’ll unpack how the Chronicler’s vision helped a nation heal—and why that same storytelling instinct, if left unexamined, can divide a global humanity desperate for common ground.

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