In a previous episode I talked about the empty theology of some forms of liberal Christianity that pedal absurdities like having faith and faith.

But there's another form of Christianity.

You may not notice it at first because political Christians will make bold stands for the truth.

They criticize Islam even to the point of being called

Islamophobes, or they criticize transgender ideology to the point of being

called transphobes. It's easy to think of them as being just one of the faithful and not as merely a friendly ally.

But what the world needs isn't political Christianity.

It just needs Christianity. The true faith of Christ that is found in his one holy Catholic and apostolic

church. So what is political Christianity? I've noticed this term being used by

atheists like Alex O'Connor and Stephen Woodford

to describe people who identify as Christians at least in some way or who believe the world

needs to be Christian even though they personally don't believe

the central truth claims of Christianity. In some of these cases a political or a cultural

Christian outright denies being Christian himself. He might be a self-professed

atheist who simply misses Christianity being the foundation of our culture

rather than something else like radical wokism or an encroaching radical Islam.

For example, here's Peter Bogotian, the author of a manual for creating atheists,

describing the bitter fruits of early 2000s new atheism.

Do you think I would be unfair for me to say that the new atheists perhaps cleared a path by killing God again, for these new religions to, these new quasi religions,

pseudo religions to flourish.

100% is there a length.

It's absolutely true and I think there was a Pollyan attitude that many new atheists had that somehow

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