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Hey everyone. Welcome back to the OnScript podcast.

This is Matt Lynch coming to you from Regent College in Vancouver.

In this episode, we have Patrick Shriner, who will be talking about his book, Political

Gospel, Public Witness in a Politically Crazy World.

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Welcome back to OnScript. I'm going to start today by reading a quote.

To claim that America is a Christian nation is a confusion of categories. America and Christianity are two very different things.

Churches fly American flags in their congregations. We celebrate July 4th with the same bravado as

Easter. We endorse candidates. We invite presidents to speak at services or condemn the other party

as the work of Satan or Jezebel. We combine the hope of

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