Defeater Ethics: Politics, Part 1
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
When the intermingling of church and political parties becomes a major reason why people leave the church, how should churches respond? In part one of this two-part series, Robert traces the history of Christianity’s connection to western government, how we became so attracted to political power, and where Jesus sits in our political divide.
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| 0:42.8 | Thank you for your support, and we hope you enjoyed this episode of every square inch. Welcome back, everyone to our Defeater ethics discussion. |
| 1:03.0 | The premise of this series is that our neighbors are not wrestling with intellectual objections to the Christian faith as |
| 1:12.2 | much as ethical objections, meaning the classic philosophical what philosophers call defeater |
| 1:20.9 | beliefs that call into question the truth of God. |
| 1:25.4 | Though those are still significant, they have become less significant than what I'm |
| 1:30.2 | calling defeater ethics, which call into question the goodness of God. And the goodness of God |
| 1:35.7 | objections that we have been discussing recently are less about God himself and more about the |
| 1:41.5 | ethical failures of Christians that people understandably then hold against Christianity. |
| 1:47.8 | So, for example, in the last podcast, we discussed the crisis of church abuse that people are wrestling with. |
| 1:57.2 | In this episode, I'm going to pick up on an issue that has quickly risen to become one of the most significant reasons, particularly in America, one of the most significant reasons why people are not considering Christianity and also, frankly, are leaving Christianity. |
| 2:13.6 | Statistically speaking, politics, the entanglement of the Christian faith with our society's |
| 2:20.0 | partisan divide has become a major, not minor, a major obstacle to the plausibility of Christianity, |
| 2:29.0 | particularly among our youth. The politicization of the Christian faith in America is now, according to the polling, |
| 2:37.0 | the number three reason that people are leaving Christianity or unwilling to consider |
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