Liberal Democracies Have No Higher Story to Tell of Individuals

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Liberal democracy has exalted individuals as reflecting characteristics of god, but actually as god itself. And that's where you get from liberty to libertinism, and where you get this sort of atomized, autonomous,. a story of the vidual that ultimately is a lonely story. That is part of the spiritual weakness, i think, in western liberal, secular societies.

Liberal democracy is under military threat abroad, and intellectual threat in America. And many of these domestic attacks are coming from within Christianity. So should Christians care about defending democracy? What are the connections between our Christian faith and America’s form of self-government? This week David and Curtis dive headlong into this deep and fascinating issue, including some history, some theology, and some critical guidance for why we Christians must indeed care about the state of our democracy and its institutions.

Show Notes:

-French Press: “A Christian Defense of American Classical Liberalism”

-Sarah Repucci & Amy Slipowitz (Freedom House): “Democracy Under Siege”

-From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798

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