National Loyalty

National loyalty is presented as belonging that preserves the mother tongue and cultural identity. Yet it remains inferior to citizenship, and does not rise above the legal and political contract that binds the citizen to the civil state.

• The distinction between guilt, wrongdoing, and sin distributes responsibility among forgiveness, reform, and insistence
• National loyalty preserves identity
• The concepts of loyalty, unbelief, and polytheism are reread on an ethical basis, not an identity-based one