The Dogmatic and Heartbreaking Politics of "Progressive Christianity"

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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With their first quote you'd think they aren't dogmatic at all. That they are open to people having their own convictions. But the second quote shows this is all just part of "abortion in the name of Christ". It's tragic. Christians don't have to be republican but the issue of abortion is one where justice, love and the protection of the innocent compels us to stand pro-life. Abortion is one of the clearest social justice issues of our time. 0:00 intro 0:18 to SKIP intro I was recently interviewed by Alisa Childers and I've taken that interview and broken it down into topical videos dealing with the 23 different claims made by the "progressive Christian" Ragamuffin TV. You'll see a new video EVERY DAY until the whole series is uploaded. Here's a link where you can see EVERY video in this series (as they go up) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHstu7p_vncGknpVhWp9uxc1 Here are the links to the long form interviews which are on Alisa's channel Part 1 https://youtu.be/wVLLuyN-Ezo Part 2 https://youtu.be/CoBW3LY8xiw

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0:00.0	You're watching one of a series of videos where Elisa Childers and I respond to 23 progressive Christian claims,
0:07.0	kind of like a progressive Christian manifesto that was written by Ragamuffin TV.
0:11.9	We deal with these claims, some good, some bad, some ugly, and I'm hoping
0:16.4	that this helps you to think biblically.
0:18.8	Let's move on to number three. This one should be pretty easy. Number three, it's not a sin to not vote Republican.
0:27.0	Agreed.
0:29.0	Done. We'll give you that one.
0:32.0	Where does this come from?
0:34.0	Yeah, I don't know.
0:36.0	Well, I think it comes from that kind of caricature that people have of what you might call conservative Christians is that if you know when you
0:45.9	put your saving faith in Jesus Christ you get a maga hat and you get a you know a
0:50.3	gun locker and all this and and that goes together you know I mean I have wonderful Christian friends who have very strong
0:55.7	political opinions but I don't know any who tie that together with the
1:00.6	gospel they're just they're voting in a way that they think is
1:03.4	the most biblical and that they believe is and we all do that. We're all
1:06.9	voting in the way that we believe is going to because you know all laws
1:11.4	legislate morality we want to we want to legislate as
1:14.3	best we can what we think God would have for people and and but yeah I think that's
1:19.9	it's a bit of a caricature and maybe a bit of a straw man.
1:23.4	Yeah, and it's also a setup for what they're really interested in, which is in number four.
1:29.9	Number four gets you what they really care about.
1:31.9	This isn't about parties.
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