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We are on episode number three of a six-part series that I have titled something to the effect of how

religion is political and politics is religious, how these two things are so interconnected that

there's no way that we are being politically

neutral, no matter what we say as an individual or as a church.

Okay, so we are on episode three, as I mentioned.

Nathan, would you just go ahead and give us a little bit of a review of what we talked about

in last Monday's episode?

Yeah.

So we started the whole series by talking about the church's official statement on

political neutrality.

And then we kind of talked about how the basic principle is the church feels like it has

the right to provide moral guidance, but wouldn't want to give any specific guidance on political parties, political candidates, or laws,

unless they feel like it either crosses into their territory of morality or somehow affects

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