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Michelle Rader's avatar

Seems to me that there is considerable overlap in ideas between Steven Wolfe's Christian Nationalism (coming from a theistic viewpoint) and Richard Dawkins cultural Christianity (coming from an atheistic viewpoint). Both like the points where Christian assumptions support their preferences /intuitions for the common good. But both seem to miss the point that cruciformity - Jesus on the cross, God's power through weakness, sacrificial non-coercive love - and voluntary allegiance to that reality - is essential to maintaining the power and efficacy of those assumptions. You can't take out the pieces you like and hope enough others share your emotional preference for them (Dawkins) or try to coerce the bits you like from those who don't share the allegiance (Wolfe) and think that you can create anything stable for the common good.

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Richard Scheenstra's avatar

You packed a lot into this one, Michael. Excellent.

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