As a result, many, perhaps most, Christians feel more comfortable with and feel they have more in common with people who share their political views than people who share their Christian faith. This is almost always the case when Christianity is reduced to faith. But a Christian faith reduced to belief is a faith neither Jesus nor the apostle Paul would have recognized. When Christianity is reduced to belief, we lose our voice. We lose our distinction. We’re easily reduced to a constituency, a voting bloc that can be wined, dined, lied to, and bribed. By reducing Christianity to a pagan
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