Grosey's Messages

Every political ideology: 1. Idolizes something that’s good-but-fallen: for Nationalists it’s the people; for Conservatives it’s the market; for Liberals it’s individual freedom and reason; for Progressives (also referred to as Socialists) it’s racial/gender/sexual identity and the State. 2. Demonizes something that’s good-but-fallen: for Nationalists it’s the other races/cultures; for Conservatives it’s the State and big organizations; for Liberals it’s moral authorities like religion and family; for Progressives it’s the free market of money and ideas. 3. Each of them tends to exclude and marginalize classes of people they see as enemies. 4. Each of them tends to idolize people they see as saviors. 5. Each of them fails to see the complexity of evil. The Bible sees the world, the flesh and the devil. Progressives see only the world, systemic evil; Liberals see only the flesh, individual moral evil. Nationalists have some sense of both but only as seen in other cultures. None recognize the demonic aspect of evil in the world. So all offer simplistic solutions not only to society but to individuals. All these secular hopes will fail because they don’t fit the complexity of good-but-fallen reality. Dad wrote this in January 2023 a few months before he died. It shows how Christians should think of our modern political ideologies. Part 2 drops this summer. https://gospelinlife.com/article/a-political-case-study-four-americas-ideologies-idolatries-part-1-of-a-2-part-series/ -Michael Keller

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