Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

The Christian idea that humans are made in the image and likeness of God is the source,

the only source in human history, in fact, for universal human dignity, human rights, and human value.

As philosopher Luke Ferry wrote in his book, a brief history of rights, and human value.

As philosopher Luke Ferry wrote in his book, a brief history of thought, and I quote,

Christianity introduced the notion that men were equal in dignity, an unprecedented idea at the time,

and one to which the world owes its entire democratic inheritance.

Now, of course, Christianity received its understanding of how God created people in his image from the Hebrew Old Testament. A commitment to the doctrine of the

Amagoday requires that Christians oppose every idea that reduces humans to some other identity.

So Christians reject LGBTQ ideology and critical race theory,

because each says something that's not true about the human person. In the same way, Christians

must reject anti-Semitism, especially in the wake of Tucker Carlson's soft-pedal platforming of

Nick Fuentes. Hateful views about the Jewish people have been prevalent

on the political left and have now emerged also on the political right. These views have to be

repudiated, no matter which side of the political spectrum they're found. What will happen now in the

wake of this interview may well determine whether Fuentes and his

Groyper movement is mainstreamed or is pushed back beyond the shadowy margins of the conservative

movement. Either way, Christians must be first and foremost committed to the biblical description

of the universe and the human person over and above political loyalties. Thus, this growing anti-Semitism coming

from the political right must be soundly condemned. Whether from the political left or the

political right, anti-Semitism is morally evil. Chuck Holson used to say that ideologies can be

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