It is always easy to say that all groups have their fringe and we should not pin the blame for the lone wolf on a whole movement. When, however, the movement lives with its lit match right by the fuse, eventually the game of “optics” will blow up in its face.
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One of America’s top political scientists, Angelo Codevilla, strikes again. The first time you may remember was in 2010 when his long essay on America’s elitist “Ruling Class” was turned into a book and promoted by Rush Limbaugh. You could call that viral. Now, he has spring-boarded off the Kavanaugh hearing/circus to argue the elites are now irreversibly desperate and in full fang and claw.
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Evangelicals and Christian activists of all types, my generation and younger, stand a good chance of not knowing about this, but they need to know about this. Like me, you may have caught a name or two in the national news a decade or so ago. You may recognize these names. But perhaps, like me, you did not put together the full picture. Now you can, and it coincides with what I and a few others have been teaching for a long time about fake Christian conservatism and the corruption it spreads among many otherwise well-intentioned Christians and conservatives. We need to listen up closely to this.
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It seems that every theologian and his cat has felt compelled to post an opinion on whether Tim Keller is a Marxist. Yet after all of it, there is still something very important missing. I’d like to say, “Let’s clear this up,” but there’s no easy way to do so. Besides, that’s exactly what everyone else claims to do, while in reality doing more sidestepping, whitewashing, slandering, and demagoguing—oh! the demagoguing these days!
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Bringing these values and this perspective to the world of atheism proves very enlightening—the very thing so many atheists claim to have and claim religious folk don’t. But real facts matter. Even if you’re the one claiming to have the facts, and reason and logic, on your side, the truth will eventually catch up with you.
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The most pressing, over-arching point is the one covered briefly in my previous article: for all the furor made over the lack of due process, my fellow conservatives (as well as liberals) have given virtually zero attention to Kavanaugh’s own track record on due process.
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