Dec 16 2011
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“ Some of the candidates seem to believe that public evangelicalism is identical to uncompromising conservatism or libertarianism at every point. This is always a warning sign – as when people believe that Christian engagement is identical to liberalism. This approach reduces Christianity to a pawn in someone else’s power game. It limits the appeal of the Gospel, reducing the church to a partisan club. And it ignores the fact that the Christian views of justice and human dignity challenge every party and ideology at some point.
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The Troubling Decline of Evangelical Social Engagement
Via my favorite source for thoughtful links from a Christian perspective, Andy Crouch. From earlier in the same commentary:
You’ll find plenty of hostile parodies of Perry’s ad on YouTube. But the problem is that Perry’s ad is itself a parody. It is the summary of a political agenda – and an example of apocalyptic political language – that would have been more at home in the 1980s. It sounds like the Moral Majority on its worst days.
