The Political Illusion
By Warren Cole Smith - Posted at MinistryWatch:
It’s important to keep our priorities aligned with Scripture, especially during this political seasonPublished August 23, 2024
If you didn’t know any better, you might think all this political activity was the most important thing going on in the world today.
But, fortunately, you are a Christian. You know better.
However, many of our neighbors are not, and do not. They have succumbed to what the French philosopher Jacques Ellul called “the political illusion.”
If you have ever read Ellul, you know that his ideas do not easily reduce to sound bites. That said, I think it is fair to reduce the “the political illusion” to this: the illusion that politics plays a greater role in our lives than they do. Politics and the propaganda associated with politics demand more of our attention than it deserves, and when we yield to that demand, we give politics more power than it should have.
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