follow-up to your discussion with Pete Wehner:
I am a 62 year old US-born male who has been a devout Christian all my life, though not raised evangelical. I’ve read the entire Bible dozens of times. I’ve taken seminary (Fuller) theology classes. I have spent most of my adult life in relationship with evangelicals.
I have never been able to understand how evangelicals (and fundamentalists) reconcile conservative political and economic views with Jesus, the gospel, or the New Testament. Nor have I ever heard a convincing or cogent explanation from my conservative and religious friends and acquaintances. It has always seemed to me that they are conservative people who have a religious overlay. (Yes, I’m a liberal person, though raised by several generations of life-long Republicans.) They also seem to be exclusively American rather than global in their worldviews which does not seem rational for a Christian.
Can you offer any insights?
It seemed that Wehner (and perhaps you and Jared) presupposed conservative views, or at least presupposed they were the views of the audience.
I realize an answer to my query is a book-length endeavor, but perhaps you can give some idea how they hold the two (conservatism and Jesus) at the same time.
BTW, I am enjoying the podcast and have listened now to almost half of the episodes.
Peace. Keep up the good work!
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