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Post-Obergefell, Christians who hold to the biblical teaching about sex and marriage have the same status in culture, and increasingly in law, as racists.
Some of this was wrapped up in the tax advantages and the rest is wrapped up in the fact that some of their actions were indistinguishable from racists.
Don’t be fooled: the upset presidential victory of Donald Trump has at best given us a bit more time to prepare for the inevitable.
I couldn't disagree more: it has precisely ushered in the era you proclaim. It he made postmodernism mainstream.
Especially when you consider that his presidency is quite clearly an apocalypse that for one of the first times in history could lead to The Apocalypse.
does not offer a political agenda.
but you just did.
conservative Christians
this is an unnecessary modifier if you aren't going to be advocating a political philosophy.
Alasdair MacIntyre said that we await “a new—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.”
true. it's the very different part you miss.
the church will live in small circles of committed believers who live the faith intensely, and who will have to be somewhat cut off from mainstream society for the sake of holding on to the truth.
perhaps that can happen within the walls of the citadel.
two most powerful phenomena directing contemporary life and pulverizing the church’s foundations: sex and technology.
what of money and power?
barbarian-ruled
this is a misnomer
vice and corruption in the city that he turned his back on the life of privilege that awaited him there, as the son of a government official.
again no mention of violence.
