Politics is the art of compromise, but there are some areas where Christians must not compromise. You can’t absolve the sin of being pro-torture by claiming to be pro-life. If making America great again involves waterboarding, nuclear weapons, child detention camps, and ridiculing environmental concerns, it’s a project Christians cannot participate in. When Joshua met the angel of the Lord and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” the angel replied, “Neither.”[15] It’s a hard lesson to learn, but Joshua learned it—we cannot assume that God is on our side; rather we can only seek to be on
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