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This would be a much more compelling argument if it didn’t ignore the way the right has also become more irreligious.
It has abandoned the pro life platform on the national level, has abandoned principles of human dignity from the Judeo-Christian tradition like Habeas Corpus, has embraced a shamelessness about lying and misrepresenting the facts (see Signalgate) and has no regard for the moral character of its leaders.
Christian Nationalists want to pretend they “know what time it is” and are riding a right wing wave for power that will advance their means. They literally fantasize that the whole movement is best expressed by JD Vance’s Catholic Buchananism.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk continues to impregnate as many random women as possible, right wing influencers embrace and celebrate Andrew Tate, and MAGA leaders lie like it’s their very breath.
Yes, the left has become wildly more progressive.
But the right has become wildly more amoral, and focused on the politics of power.
To acknowledge one without the other is actually just an embrace of raw partisanship.
“Third way-ism” never looked so good.
It's not that the phrases...
- The gospel is neither right nor left
- Prophetic, not partisan
- Not a red elephant or a blue donkey, but a slain lamb
- Truth, not tribe...
... are necessarily wrong (I've used them!).
It's that as American politics have changed, these phrases have become so misleading as to be very unhelpful because they obscure the clear moral asymmetry between the (current) policies of the parties.
Once upon a time, the two parties basically agreed upon the destination, but disagreed on how to get there. But as the secular progressive social justice movement hijacked the Left, the policies of the two parties are aiming for fundamentally different and diametrically opposed moral visions.
As Jon Tyson has pointed out, secularism attempts a "reverse exorcism" –– it goes throughout society and anywhere it finds God it cries out, "COME OUT, IN HUMANITY'S NAME!" Progressivism is an attempt to "progress past" much of historic Christian morality, which it casts as outdated, repressive, harmful, and to be eradicated.
Our axioms, rhetorical strategy, and phraseology have to find a way to reflect that change.
People in Alabama: “Systemic racism doesn’t exist!”
US Supreme Court: “Dude, you’re literally doing it right now…”
npr.org/2023/09/26/120090684…
I also met the guy that always tweets about @relientK !
@LukeFilipowicz I think something went wrong at the factory. Looks like they gave you my face by mistake.
