I think the debate on nationalism itself should have its own thread, especially in light of a certain recent development in southeast Europe. Actually, I found the responses from groups like the Basque Liberation Front and the Scottish National Party to the independence of Kosovo quite interesting and promising. As a seperatist myself I strongly support the idea of dismantling large nations into smaller entities of course. Still, this of course has nothing to do with the relation between nationalism and religion, which the thread is supposed to be about, just had to add my two cents to the side-discussion.