Thread by @scott_m_coley

If this were true, it would be perfectly irrelevant: it is not the Church's mandate to preserve America.

But Jack's claim isn't true at all. In fact, it's the opposite of the truth.

https://twitter.com/jackngraham/status/1325781188099928064

The reason that our nation is disintegrating before our eyes is that we, as a society, lack a shared conception of justice--a common understanding of what people deserve and what we owe to each other.

So although Americans share a patch of earth, we do not share a horizon: we've degenerated into a collection of special interest groups--our highest political aspiration is to secure benefits for ourselves and those like us.

Folks like Jack think that Christianity is just another interest group. That's why he's so easily seduced by talk of "doing more for Christians than anyone"--which, on a conceptual level, is nothing more than unadulterated nonsense.

(Honestly, I don't know what it's supposed to mean. The only way I can make sense of it is to understand "doing stuff for Christians" as something like, "granting access to individuals, like Jack, who purport to represent the interests of American Christians.")

But Christianity isn't a special interest group at all, except insofar as Christians are commanded to identify our interests with the pursuit of justice.

And this is why Jack's statement is the opposite of the truth.

What will save our republic is a political reformation that calls our attention to the truth about justice--a reformation that the Church is uniquely positioned to lead, if only we'd stop behaving like a special interest group in the political sphere.

(Note: I assume that by 'liberal Christianity', Jack means to indicate Christians who understand the pursuit of justice as integral to the practice of our faith. He attempts to conflate that kind of Christianity with a low view of Scripture, which I reject.)