Christianity and Politics
Maintaining the Priority of our Calling In an ongoing discussion I am having with a friend who identifies as atheist, he often brings up, whether on topic or not, the subject of politics and Christianity. Each time it involves the most egregious actions of those who identify as Christian. He is unwilling or unable to make a distinction between those he is criticizing and the actual teachings/tenets of Christianity, which always results in his criticizing Christianity itself. Now, there are certainly those within the Church that have brought this criticism upon themselves and thus, unfairly upon the broader Church. This has been true primarily in the last decade or so, as the word Evangelical has become nearly synonymous with the farthest right-winged…