Why Christians Should Support and Defend Democracies

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Democracy is only made real when it's embodied in things like a fairly elected legislature, an executive that operates under the rule of law. And you can go on election agencies that guarantee free and fair elections. I saw all these institutions working together a under these kind of norms. That's what we're calling democracy, or liberal democracy. We're not saying that christianity and democracy are the same thingright? They're not.

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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