Why Religion Is More Important to Me Than Politics?

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In reality, you've just made a very strong argument that a consistently biblical view of humanity would lead somebody to actually hold both those views. That would actually, on the one hand, find them a lot of mi in my world. On the race, race point, they'd be like, ye, you're one of us. Andn the moment that that got applied to abortion, you like, get out of hereunw you're cast out. Andn, you'd reverse that with your neighborhood, right? Right? Right? Ye, ye, absolutely absolute.

In a follow up to last week’s Deconstructing Faith episode, David French and Curtis Chang dive into the sometimes murky and contradictory political views of Christians. All too frequently, the political stances we think are biblical are actually just cultural.

Why are most Christians’ political stances so predictable? For example, why do many believers who care about abortion not care as much about systemic racism? Or vice versa?

Tune into today’s episode as Curtis and David tackle the fascinating interaction between politics, culture, and the Bible… and end with a surprising take on abortion and systemic racism.

Show Notes:

-More in Common - The Hidden Tribes of America

-Paul D. Miller - The Role of Social Science in ‘Deconstructing’ White Evangelicalism

-Kristen du Mez - Jesus and John Wayne

-Jemar Tisby - The Color of Compromise

-George McKenna - On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position (circa 1995, but still relevant)