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Category Archives for "Politics"

0 Roger Williams, the Civil Magistrate, and the First Table of the Law

As absurd as it sounds, there has been a recent push among many vociferous Christian Nationalists for the imposition of blasphemy laws. Michael O’Fallon has been warning for sometime about an overreaction to leftist provocations, and he hosted the “With Liberty and Justice for All” conference to help call out reactionary movements. At the conference, […]

0 Classical Liberalism vs Christian Nationalism in the “Negative World”

For those who haven’t noticed, “Christian Nationalism” is the latest fad among conservative Christians. In theory, it sounds innocuous and completely compatible with traditional American political principles. But many of its most vocal proponents actually pit it against the American ideals enshrined in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. They scorn American concepts like […]

0 Russell Moore and Joe Biden: Two Lifelong, Grandstanding Democrats

Joe Biden is new to the game of playing up White Nationalism as an urgent national menace. Russell Moore is an old pro.

0 Unrealistic Predictions, COVID-19 Lockdown, Cost Lives

On May 6, Shelley Luther, a Dallas hair salon owner who ran her salon despite her governor’s executive order, was sentenced to 7 days in prison and was fined $7,000. Shelley refused to apologize and said that she needed to run her salon so that she and her employees could feed their kids.

0 A Woke Package-Deal

Yesterday I saw the above photo on Facebook, posted by some Christian Intellectual friends. They used this photo as proof that the terms “White Supremacy” and “Racism” are actually weapons being used by the Left to undermine the very foundations of Western Civilization.

0 Cultural Marxism in The Church: Menace or Myth?

In a recent interview with The Gospel Coalition, Michael Haykin, professor of History and Biblical Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, mocked the concerns many have about Marxist ideology seeping into the Church through so-called “social justice” issues: “What about the charge that some evangelicals’ emphasis on social justice reveals them to be a […]

0 It’s People They Want to Fetter: On The Immorality of the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives

It’s not uncommon to hear leftists complain about “the unfettered market.” But if you thought the far left was the only threat against free market capitalism, think again.

1 How Marxist Thinking Is Seeping into the Church

“Why is Socialism Being Promoted by Conservative Christian Outlets?” That’s the question Joe Carter, at his Acton Institute blog, asks about Andrew Strain’s recent article at First Things. In his piece, Strain claims that free markets are “as mythical as unicorns,” and concludes that government intervention in the market, on behalf of “the common good,” is the […]

0 The Unicorn Logic Against Free Markets—A Response to Andrew Strain at First Things

In his recent piece, “Free Markets and Unicorns,” at First Things, Andrew Strain made the argument that free markets, like unicorns, don’t exist––so we should stop trying to defend them. Unfortunately for Mr. Strain, it is his laughable reasoning––not the defense of free markets––which belongs in the fanciful world of unicorns.

0 Russell Moore Says Rights Are Never Absolute

In a video released yesterday by The Gospel Coalition, Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said, “every right that we have in society is never an absolute.”

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