Taking Sides: The Christian's Responsibility in Civic Affairs Part 4

The Coach's Team ^ | 5/8/16 | Kevin Kookogey

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Few would disagree that America is experiencing significant political instability today. Many, however, are reluctant to admit the cause. Refusing the lessons of history, civic leaders double down in politically-correct efforts to deny the correlation between moral order and constitutional order. Rejecting all evidence that political stability is not possible without personal virtue, these self-appointed do-gooders pass useless decrees, adding harm upon harm because they are, as Eliot wrote, “absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

It is undeniable that our present political and moral deterioration is directly attributable to decades of coordinated efforts to undermine religious liberty, our first freedom. We face cultural collapse and loss of all order because many Americans no longer believe in the purpose, the destiny and these moral foundations of the American order.

But you wouldn’t learn these things if your goal was merely to inform yourself about politics because information is not the remedy for ignorance. There is a difference between merely informing ourselves and informing ourselves of what is true.

If we aim only to inform ourselves, we may discover some truth along the way, but we are more than likely to be deceived by a lot of false ideas. Being ill-informed is the only thing worse than being uninformed.

But if truth is our aim, we shall become well-informed; able to distinguish bad ideas from good ones.

You might ask, “Well, how can we make such distinctions? What is the standard for determining truth?”

Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Source of all Truth. But even if you do not subscribe to a Christian point of view, it is undeniable that knowledge derives from belief. Many people operate under the false belief that the accumulation of information equates to knowledge and that this reservoir of information enlightens...