Government Gospels, Part 3: Liberalism
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week Robert dives into the history of our current form of government and how our democracy finds its philosophical and theological roots in liberalism.
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| 0:42.8 | Thank you for your support, and we hope you enjoyed series on government Gospels, where I am going to do my best to |
| 1:07.4 | offer a Christian evaluation of the most prevalent political ideologies that |
| 1:14.2 | have captured the minds and hearts of Americans. My argument is that these have become much more |
| 1:21.0 | than political philosophies and beliefs. Instead, we have made them idols, vainly trusting them to save our culture, nation, future, |
| 1:32.4 | and so on. They have become their own counterfeit gospel of salvation, thus the title |
| 1:39.1 | government gospels. I have sufficiently introduced and qualified this series, and now it is time to dive in. |
| 1:49.6 | And the first government gospel I'm going to address is classic liberalism. |
| 1:56.3 | And the reason why I'm starting here is that liberalism for us in America is the reigning ideology from which |
| 2:02.7 | every other political ideology flows. It kind of serves as the foundation of political thought, |
| 2:10.9 | not just for Americans, but truly all Western society. So we think that Democrats and Republicans are political rivals with entirely |
| 2:22.6 | different starting points and ways of viewing the world and the role of government therein. |
| 2:28.2 | But in reality, our partisan divide should be viewed more as a sibling rivalry within the same family. |
| 2:37.6 | And the last name of that family is liberalism. |
| 2:41.4 | So for the most part in America, we have essentially liberal liberals, conservative liberals, |
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