The policy of shutting down schools & businesses is rooted in a secular, materialist worldview that views humans as merely bodies. Thus it prioritizes “stopping” a physical illness at the expense of a person’s emotional and spiritual well-being.
It’s a good lesson in how leftism views people—with a lopsided emphasis on nurture over nature. Leftism is based on this erroneous materialist view of humans as malleable objects that can adapt to the wishes of the political & cultural powers that be.
In the context of COVID restrictions, the idea from the left is that people will be fine, especially if we give them $ to live. But people need more than $. People need interaction, community, spiritual nourishment, purpose found through productivity.
Because, contrary to the materialist worldview in which leftist ideology has always been rooted, humans are more than just bags of bones. We are whole people with a variety of equally important material & immaterial needs.
As Christianity asserts, we are made by God with natural needs like work, worship & fellowship, and when we are denied these things, we suffer immensely both individually and societally. We are not just bodies (though the body is very important to God). We are also souls.
Any COVID policy that only focuses *only* on the safety of the body (& it’s not clear that lockdowns even do that) and not the well-being of the mind & soul leads to needless suffering, depression, unrest & even suicide.
The worldview of our politicians matters. Secularism is not a neutral worldview. Its erroneous view of human nature is exactly why the political ideologies borne of it—communism & socialism—have ended in massive suffering.
The most restrictive (and unscientific, btw) COVID policies that disregard the whole person come from this worldview. And, as always, many will suffer for it.
This is a good comment. Though I would say true conservatism is rooted in the idea that we are created by God with certain unalienable rights that the govt cannot therefore arbitrarily take away, it’s true that there are many on the right who hold a secularist WV.
Ironically, many of the people calling this tweet privileged are the same ones who fight against school choice & support teachers unions, both of which actively work against underprivileged students...
My stance is: every parent, regardless of socioeconomic status, should have options in their child’s education. School choice programs that allow $ to follow the child rather than funding institutions create competition between schools that incentivizes better spending & teaching
In some cases, the local public school may very well be the best option for their child. But if not, they should have the freedom & funds to go elsewhere. Teachers unions fight against this, bc, like most left wing institutions, they don’t like competition or accountability.
Read your piece, and I wish you would have consulted with a Christian pro-lifer before writing it, because there are some glaring misunderstandings. Here to help:
1) "The Bible never directly discusses abortion:" Abortion is murder. The biblical command against murder is clear.
2) "[Exodus 21:22] suggests that the Bible treats a fetal life as less than a human life:" No, it doesn't. The passage says that unintentionally causing a woman requires a fine. That's because it's manslaughter, which God views/punishes differently than murder (Ex. 21:13)
Furthermore, you distinguishing "human life" from "fetal life" is unscientific nonsense. Whether or not you believe fetuses have inherent value, they are human beings. That's a biological fact.
I have tried very hard to sincerely understand how someone who identifies as a Christian conservative can vote for Joe Biden. Ive asked, Ive read, Ive engaged. I am not exaggerating when I tell you I have gotten nothing close to a coherent reason.
If you don’t vote for Trump as a Christian conservative, ok, I get it. We are not in total agreement, but I understand. I cannot for the life of me understand how a Christian conservative can vote Biden. It defies all reasoning.
They all insist they’re not voting on emotion. They care about abortion. They believe in religious liberty. But they still think Biden will unify and lead us well. I don’t doubt their sincerity, so I have to assume they are simply grossly misinformed.
If Biden were a Republican, every demeaning comment he’s made about black people would be a major story. The disparate impact of his crime bill would be the subject of 1,000 op-eds. The name “Tara Reade” would be uttered in every news segment.
His touchiness toward girls would be the cause of feminist protests. His inability to finish a thought would be disqualifying. His eulogy for a former KKK member would be playing on loop. His proven lies & plagiarism over his 47 year political career would be detailed in full.
We wouldn’t be talking about anything but Hunter Biden, and whether or not Joe’s foreign policy with nations like China can be bought. He’d be asked why he & the Obama admin put “kids in cages” at the border & deported an unprecedented number of illegal immigrants.
If you are aiming for “racial reconciliation,” Christians, intersectionality, Critical Race Theory and Liberation Theology will not get you there. Their purpose is to deconstruct & divide, but they can never build up & bring together.
How do you know your church is preaching these things? If the teaching assigns guilt & innocence, responsibility & victimhood, collectively based on skin color. If repentance is only demanded based on race. If “justice” is defined as the world defines it rather than how God does.
If Jesus is characterized as a social revolutionary rather than a savior with a revolutionary gospel that frees both the societal oppressor & the societally oppressed from sin. If your pastor simply repeats mainstream narratives about systemic racism rather than the facts.
For every Dem who believes Trump supporters are dangerous, I promise I believe just as strongly (if not more) that the policies you support are dangerous. But, unlike so many Dems I’ve seen talking abut Trump voters, I don’t “lose all respect” for you for voting for Biden...
I would still welcome you into my home and share a meal with you. I don’t assume you’re a bad parent or that you hate people. I don’t think you should be shunned from society, harassed, or shamed. I think you are wrong, and that your policy positions are seriously harmful...
But I don’t hate you. I don’t think you’re stupid. I just think you’re wrong. And I am wrong a lot too. And, as a Christian, I am in no position to “shun” you, because God in Christ chose not to shun me, even though He had every right to.