Christian Political Principles in the Age of Trump

Recent years have seen a resurgence of thought about the age-old topic of Christian engagement in the public square. This is true in the United States in particular, where a historically Judeo-Christian culture is rapidly shifting, church attendance is declining, and once largely shared civic convictions are deteriorating. The 2016 election added another wrinkle to the story, especially for conservative Christians who struggled to rethink political allegiances in light of new realities. All of these developments are necessitating new answers to old questions. Namely, how do Christians engage faithfully and prudently in a pluralistic—and at times, antagonistic—public square?

 

  • Property/Wealth Allows you to be self-governing.
  • Homestead Act, not Basic Income
  • Value Added Sales Tax instead of Income Tax.
  • Targeting Families with incomes 80,000-$200,000 for wealth accumulation (UPS Drivers, previously $150,000)
  • Divorce Tax
  • Anti-Pornography
  • Require Schools to teach biblical literacy.
  • Principle and Duty of Self Defense, Just/War (26 min)
  • The Issue is not Populism, but Management Society and Selfie Man (30 min)
  • Gay Marriage is the ultimate-one percent issue (R.R. Reno)  (51 min)
  • We should care most about the middle, not the bottom third. (R.R. Reno)
  • We are in the midst of the 3rd Great Awakening without Religion: Guilt, Debt, Fault without a Religious Architecture.  (56 min)
  • We have a world with rights, but without a need for each other/responsibility
  • The Freshman class at College realizes that something is wrong (1:07)
  • Foolishness of those Evangelical Leaders who value Proximity to Power (Falwell, Tony Perkins, Franklin Graham)
  • Black lives matters attacked the Democratic Party.
  • Identity politics is a betrayal of Martin Luther King
  • Slavery is the only Moral Claim.  Africans are not one group among many.
  • The African American Community has been decimated by Planned Parenthood, an organization that started out with a eugenics policies (Roe)  (1:29)