When the Utopian Right Meets the Cynical Left

 By Bill Muehlenberg - Posted at CultureWatch:

Christians need to be realists when it comes to this world:

I was once very much a man of the left, but since becoming a Christian I have moved to the right. But neither one deserves my complete allegiance. While much of conservatism I readily embrace, there are some aspects of it that I want little to do with.

A small minority of those on the Christian right for example are increasingly and belligerently insisting on hyper-libertarianism, neo-isolationism, pacifism, and the belief that we should basically come to the aid of no one at any time. The extreme version of this is when some of these folks even suggest we all could have just stayed out of WWII.

‘It wasn’t our war’ they will intone. ‘It was none of our business.’ Yeah right, we would all be speaking German or Japanese now if that faulty advice was followed. But worse yet, there are now some voices actually suggesting that maybe Hitler was not all that bad after all; the war was not really his fault; he might have done a bit of good; that the real villain was Churchill; and so on.

I have no time for historical revisionist nonsense like that. I have no time for such moral myopia. And even if some big-name conservatives and Christians are erring in that direction, I still reject it. Here’s the scoop: just as some folks seem to think that Trump is almost God or the Messiah or infallible, there are some who feel this way about some conservative leaders like Tucker Carlson. Well, none of them are divine. I can agree with them on many matters yet strongly disagree on others.

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