Doug Wilson On Republicans And Democrats

Us Evangelicals, as in so many other areas need to slow down and look to see if what we do comports with God's Word. Most of America's elders have had a botched understanding of what it meant to make disciples of all nations. We have equated for 150 yrs that getting people saved, is making disciples. We were wrong. Here is another example from Wilson of what should be normal Christian thinking, but instead he sounds like he is from outer space.

Secular Conservatives and Real Ones

I take it as a given that our standard right/left political dichotomy does not represent a Trinitarian approach to politics at all. I have argued this for quite a number of years now, with no appreciable sign that anything is getting through to anybody who is actually running the show. Nevertheless, let us keep on keeping on, as we used to say.

But the mistakes made on the right and on the left are very different...

Now this next distinction is crucial. The fact that secular conservatives can see it and so express their support for things like pro-life legislation or marriage protection laws does not mean that they are capable of helping us out when it comes to the more complex, systemic and corporate issues we must face. The fact that they can read the big E on God's eyechart for mankind does not mean that they can see the lowest line. As Trinitarian Christian we must affirm that our ethical responsibilities are both individual and corporate, which means that however much we might agree with certain Republican talking points in a campaign (on issues like abortion and sodomy), we also must acknowledge that such appeals are inadequate -- they do not fill out our vision for Christendom at all. They are fine as far as they go, but they don't go very far.

In the case of liberals, it is completely different. They celebrate sodomy, and say that a woman has the right to chop her baby up in little pieces. They cannot read the big E and insist that being asked even to try reading it is an insult to their core values. Now, this being the case, I am not even going to ask them to read the lowest line. My reason for this is that they are clearly blind... whole article