Welcome to the conversations that Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We are going to talk today about something related to the area in which I live, which is the state of Virginia. However if you live outside of Virginia you're not going to want to miss this because

it really encapsulates the problem that I've been shining a spotlight on in

evangelicalism and Christianity in general for the past two years only now

It's in politics and what do I mean by that well for the past two years I've been talking about Christians and evangelicals in particular, or people who are in evangelical organizations,

who have brought in ideas like standpoint theory, which is a postmodern idea that different social locations are better equipped to

understand the realities of living in an unjust world, or the Marxist theory, which portrays very distinct and defined groups of people and places

labels like oppressor or oppressed on them based upon their social location.

Or taking the idea of social justice, which is redistributive justice, and then attaching that to the

gospel in a Galatian heresy kind of way. And all the while, all these things that I've

talked about over the past two years are being forwarded by people who claim to be

Orthodox. They'll say I'm a Christian, I believe the Bible, I'm here to teach the

Bible and then they teach these Marxist principles, these postmodern

principles, these criticalmodern principles, these critical

race theory principles. And of course we've talked about it a lot on this

particular podcast. Well this is an example that I'm about to share with you of someone running for

governor in the state of Virginia who claims not to be a Christian although he does,

but more importantly to be a conservative a populist magga

America first Trump coalition conservative and his ads all say that I listen to them in the radio when I'm driving around, doing errands. I see them on Facebook when I log on to Facebook. And the intention behind the ads are to show that this gentleman, Glenn Youngkin, is

on board with Donald Trump and that Donald Trump is on board with him because they have one little

clip of Trump complimenting the Carlisle group which

Glen Young can use to be involved with. Nothing could be further from the truth

though and I did not know this when I first started hearing those advertisements based on the advertisements you think

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