- Christianity is on a quick, steep decline
- Parishioners are bringing their politics to church with them
- For liberals, the answer to “Who is in charge here?” should be “No one”
- The system is not perfect but tends to get better over time
- They are seen as godless
- Making money is the only value on the rise while most other values are in decline, especially faith
- The US Founders thought being virtuous would help make people more governable
- Four foundations
- Mortality
- Morality
- Murder
- Miracles
- “People have a perfect right to believe that we exist for a reason even if that reason is not scientifically provable. We are, of course, not entitled to believe whatever we want.”
- Being ubiquitous does not make it inherently right
- “Any unlikely natural explanation is inherently more plausible than a miracle.”
- Democracy depends on religion that desires to support democratic society; Religion depends on a democracy that supports moral values
- Liberalism is inherently anarchy-adjacent
- Conservatives characterize liberality as too much freedom
- Locke and others knew that there needed to be limited freedom for both persons and government
- “Religion does best when it adapts to the needs of actual people”
- We should move zeal out of politics and back to religion
- “Evangelic” became synonymous with “conservative”
- (true) Christianity can be summed as
- Fear not
- Imitate Christ
- Forgive each other
- “Christian nationalism” is not religious but political
- “We are to be governed by laws, not individual people”
- ‘What we gain by accepting what is already de facto law is insignificant compared to what we gain by working together’
- We should be navigating to increasing moral agency
- Mormon theology drives its approach to politics, most churches are the other way around
- “You can’t beat something with nothing”
- Many churches are missing “adults” to help keep the church in the spiritual realm and out of politics
- Christians should avoid the “Church of fear”; “fear not” is the most common admonition in the New Testament
- We should not pass laws “because Jesus said so” but we also shouldn’t be “allergic to religion”
- De-escalation is a benefit in itself
- Christians practices would be benefited if they realized they not in the promised land but are exiles
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