Defeater Ethics: Politics, Part 2
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
After tracing the history of Christianity’s attraction to political power, this week Robert turns to Jesus’ response to our attraction to political power. What did Jesus’ political ethic look like, and what did he have to say about the hot-button political topic of his day?
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| 1:03.9 | Within our broader discussion on ethical objections to the Christian faith, we are dealing with politics, that easy and |
| 1:13.1 | uncontroversial topic of politics. |
| 1:16.1 | Listen, nobody wants to go there. |
| 1:17.8 | I don't want to go there. |
| 1:20.3 | But I am arguing that we have to go there. |
| 1:22.9 | Because according to the latest research, the politicizing of the Christian faith in America has risen |
| 1:29.1 | to be the number three reason the rising generation is rejecting Christianity. |
| 1:35.2 | Number one is the Christian sexual ethic. |
| 1:37.8 | Number two is harmful and hypocritical behaviors of Christians. |
| 1:41.6 | And number three is politics. |
| 1:43.3 | The partisan culture of American Christianity. |
| 1:48.0 | By the way, all three of those, all three of those underscore the premise of this series on |
| 1:52.5 | defeater ethics. Those are not intellectual objections, are they? They are moral objections, |
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