Politics and the Future of Faith

[struggle4progress]

Has Christianity been co-opted by politics? Mona Charen sits down with David French of The New York Times and Russell Moore of The After Party for a compelling conversation on the rise of Christian Nationalism and its impact on faith and American politics.

[edhopper]

1. Christianity

and all religions have always been political.

[struggle4progress]

2. Concur in part, dissent in part. As an empirical fact, I think your remark is often correct;

and I think Christianity arose from Jewish resistance to Roman fusion of state power with state religion

But because I returned to Christianity from an atheist position, drawn by Marxist readings of the Bible and church history, and I have appreciated the dialectical tension -- between atheist skepticism with the often material nature of practical ethics, as opposed to a confused naive idealism and the psychological importance of hope in hopeless situations --- I always find myself philosophically oscillating between my mythical desires and my conviction that transcendent beliefs are often (but not always) counter-productive

The actual details must be sorted out constamtly and imperfectly, in the living of life

[surfered]

3. They have begun worshipping power instead of Jesus