Political Activism Is Necessary but Insufficient

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, is thinking about the recent mid-term elections. We put so much hope in our political system, and certainly political activism plays a necessary role. Yet while the ballot box is necessary, it is insufficient. Consider maladies in Western Civilization such as transgenderism and radical transgender surgery—something you could never have imagined where people are now at young ages having top and bottom surgeries making up maybe a trillion dollar industry for the medical establishment with young people becoming medical patients for life. Radical individualism, wokism, militant egalitarianism, religious pluralism, and so on. All such things are not magically changed or redeemed at the ballot box. Illiberal liberalism is perpetuated and disseminated in so many different ways. Think about educational institutions—so many educators saying the state should have a bigger input into the lives of children than parents. The entertainment industry, which many of us are hooked on. Environmental industries that create, manipulate, and disseminate ideological constructs driving Western civilization in a various dangerous direction. Just a glimpse of the darkness. What are the solutions? The church must awaken from its diabetic coma brought on by a steady diet of fast-food Christianity. Christians must become not only intellectually equipped but equipped internally—by a mysterious Zoetic energy—the energy by which we may yet reclaim the soul of the world against the insistent forces of secularism and paganism.

For further reflection, see Hank Hanegraaff, Truth Matters, Life Matters More: The Unexpected Beauty of an Authentic Christian Life https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-truth-matters-life-matters-more/

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Hank Hennograph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible
0:16.9	Answerman broadcast with another Hank Unplug short.
0:27.9	I'm sitting in my office on a rainy day in Charlotte, North Carolina.
0:31.1	And I'm thinking about the midterm elections.
0:36.5	We put so much hope in our political system. Some of us hang on every count and recount of ballots on the numbers in terms of who is going to
0:46.3	control the Senate and who's going to control the House and certainly all of that is important.
0:53.3	Political activism plays a necessary role, but yet that role is insufficient.
1:01.8	The ballot box is necessary, but it is insufficient.
1:07.4	If you think about it clearly, the despotism of such maladies in Western civilization is, well, radical transgender surgery, something you could never have imagined where people are now at young ages having top and bottom surgeries,
1:28.3	probably a trillion dollar industry for the medical establishment,
1:33.3	hormone treatments, young kids becoming patients for life.
1:38.3	Think of other issues such as militant egalitarianism or radical individualism,
1:48.9	multiculturalism, political correctness, religious pluralism.
1:53.9	Well, the list goes on.
1:56.6	All these things are not magically changed or redeemed at the ballot box.
2:05.6	Illiberal liberalism is perpetuated and disseminated in so many different ways.
2:13.6	I often alliterate this so people can remember, but I think about the educational institution.
2:21.3	And so many educators now saying that the state should have a bigger input in the lives of children than parents,
2:31.6	or the entertainment industry, which many of us are hooked on.
2:39.4	Environmental industries that create and manipulate and disseminate ideological constructs
2:47.7	driving Western civilization in a very dangerous direction.
2:53.2	And that is just a glimpse of the darkness.
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