The only Christianity, indeed the only Christians, that will be of any use going forward will be a Christianity that is capable of rebuking the idolatry of the State.
Statism and Christianity are antithetical to one another.
There cannot be two ultimate authorities.
We hear preaching against the idolatry of good things. Family, work, liberties, & Christian education.
Yet those things are not what plagues us.
They are what is under relentless assault by what actually does plague us.
Idolatry of the State.
When this generation calls out to their false god for salvation we MUST rebuke them...
"Put not your trust in princes,
in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation." -Psalm 146:3
The reason our pulpits do not rebuke the idolatry of the State is because doing so would step on a great many toes at the intersection of the "oppressed."
So Statism gets a free pass from rebuke, because it has been sold as the deliverer to the identity groups above rebuke.
In so doing the modern evangelical pulpit has tolerated the worship of a false god in their midst. So, a little leaven later...
Wokeism, church splits, endless false charges of "abuse," the entire Alinsky playbook.
A false unity with disciples of a false god.
Statism.
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This is an important concept to understand when fielding "abuse" charges from evangelical wokesters. To them abuse is how Meyer explains it here...
“A godless pattern of abusive behavior among spouses involving physical, psychological, and/or emotional means to exert and obtain *power* and *control* over a spouse for the achievement of selfish ends.”
If you understand the zero-sum power dynamic inherent in critical theory and intersectionality, derived from the Marxist oppressor/oppressed categories and framework upon which it is built, then you understand that "abuse" to them is not surrending to their demands.
One of the points to make about the @RevKevDeYoung situation is that he was the poster-child for the beta-male approach to evangelical wokesters. Nice, winsome, fraternal posturing...
He did everything the softies demand of us with one exception, he wouldn't ultimately agree with them.
And for that, @dukekwondc still called him a White Supremacist.
"Put most simply, our view is this: While Reverend DeYoung’s subtitle indicates that he believes his review to be an expression of a theological project, (cont.)
Though you aren't wrong about Trump manipulating the media I think you may be downplaying the role of the internet, and social media, in the current political paradigm shift. It isn't just Trump, the whole world is moving to the right on just about every issue.
@drawandstrike My main contention for this is that the all-encompassing propaganda machine the left had built was largely made obsolete by the advent of social media.
Media, entertainment, education, higher education, bureaucracy, mainline religion all were militantly controlled by leftists.
@drawandstrike The result was decades of folks on the right who cut their teeth contending for their views in environments that were openly hostile to them.
Where as leftists sat privileged and protected from cross examination.