The Assault on Democracy in the US

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i get the sense that people don't quite grasp what is going on in terms of a domestic threat. And i think we need to uncover that, because christians actually have an really important role to play. There are fundamental values embedded within the system of liberal democracy that very much reflect a judaeo christian, biblical values. We we should ally against against this. A and so it's amazing to see a,. but it raises this a sort of irony that even as we are focusing, rightly, our attention on this ucranian defence of democracya That there is, in some really threatening and scary ways, forces that are assaulting 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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