Welcome to the Conversations that Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris and today I want to talk about a question I have.

Why are American Leftists so united? I mean really why is it if you're a Democrat and you say something insane and lose an election and

all the moderates hate you because of what you said you are protected the wagons are circled and you may even be advanced in the party structure.

Whereas if you're a Republican and you say something even slightly off or maybe the

New York Times misrepresented something you've said, you're thrown overboard

immediately and if you lose well goodbye. I think there's a

microcosm of that going on within the social justice debate because on one side

you have a very very loose coalition of different ministries and they have

different issues with social justice it might be mission drift or it's

heresy or it's just bad ethics and they disagree with one another sometimes over theological differences

within this loose coalition or maybe strategy and so they don't work together as

much. There's no big conspiracy. On the other side, however, you have a very firm

coalition coming from academia on the social justice side and conferences and institutions and

academic organizations and seminaries and Bible schools

public publication houses so forth and so on, they're all united.

And the reason I know this is because, I mean, just think with me for a moment.

I know some insider information, but you don't even need that.

Just think about how many professors have signed

the Dallas statement in the Southern Baptist Convention. Hardly any. I think there's

one. And think about all the crazy things that have been said against or biblical justice or I should

say for social justice that have caused a stir on social media or maybe it's a professor speaking at a seminary. I mean there's

there's countless examples of this. They are not thrown overboard at all but

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