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Hello, this is Russell Moore, and this is the audio version of the More to the Point newsletter,

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delivered to you every week. Today, I want to talk about how Christianity embraces nihilism.

Turns out, when you mix narcissism and nihilism, you create an acid that corrods every belief system it touches.

That's a quote from my friend David Brooks in the latest issue of the Atlantic about the conservative movement,

a movement that he once claimed for himself.

Brooks notes that despite all of the elite versus the people messaging,

virtually all of the national leaders he sees celebrating cruelty and vice or Ivy League wealthy.

He dubs them Vineyard Vineyard-Vines nihilus.

Brooks argues that this would be bad enough were it just a political matter. But the nihilism has

eaten away at Christianity too. Many of these nihilists, Brooks writes, ostentatiously identify

as Christians, but don't talk about Jesus very much. Brooks writes that they have crosses on their chest, but Nietzsche in their hearts,

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