But there's going to be things where as Christians, we have to investigate.

Here's the principles.

How do we apply them?

But we know when we do apply them overall, it makes society better.

I love Christian ethics.

Good.

Right?

The problem is that when the state blends with Christianity in a removal of separation of church and state,

what happens is that what is Christian ethics is very tied to power.

And I think power is not a pursuit of the good.

Power is a pursuit of power.

This is just a critique of any value system.

For me, it's killing human beings is wrong.

And in some cases, you're allowed to start with the moral principle and the sequela or whatever follows.

I never said that you can't start with them. In fact, even the state.

I want to start with that.

So we're talking about Christian nationalism today, a lot of things under that umbrella.

And the problem with talking about Christian nationalism is that nobody can agree on what it means.

The critics of the idea often define it as like handmaid's

tale, fever dreams of religious leaders directly controlling the government and instituting

evil policies like turning women into slaves. And defenders of the idea exist across a wide

spectrum with probably a few crazy people in the mix. But the most prominent defenders of

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