Democracy, Liberal Democracy, Is Not Christian

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In one generation, in one lifetime, a country can so fissure, that they have two competing and opposite and hostile views of how we ought to be governed. And did hav ti ser and it did happen, right? We that's in our history, right? Likeill it can't it did? It did happen? Yes, in our history. Democracy, liberal democracy, is not the same thing as christianity. It is not christian. Christianity has flourished for eons without liberal democracy. But there is a deep and intimate relationship that i think ultimately can be a healthy relationship, between christianity andliberal democracy.

This week David and Curtis offer a follow up discussion on fundamentalism, clarifying some key points from the previous episode and diving deeper into how we can become fundamentalists without even knowing it! Do our increasingly homogenous social groups perhaps push us toward fundamentalism and even radicalization? How might the presence of even a few diverse voices impact these groups? This then leads to a discussion about liberal democracy and how it is under assault, not just globally (as in Russia/Ukraine), but even here in the US. How should our Christian faith inform things like our system of government and our embrace (or rejection) of liberal democracy?

Show Notes:

-Cass Sunstein - The Law of Group Polarization

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