Culture in a democratic society is merely an aggregate reflection of the beliefs of the people in that culture

What went wrong with the religious right?

BY DAN BURKE

• True culture change cannot come through the political process as a primary means. 
• It was a politicized Christian conservatism that obscured the essence of the Evangelical movement (Christ and evangelism), and left in its wake a kind of moral political movement that diffused its own real capability of bringing about lasting societal change. 
• The irony of this evolution is that while this was happening with U.S. Evangelical conservatives, it was also playing out on the left in the Catholic Church with a Christianized Marxism known as Liberation Theology. 
• Both movements essentially displaced a transformative relationship with Christ at the center of real change and replaced it with political or structural power — a formula that never works.
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• In today’s intense battle for religious liberty, it is essential that Christians fight for the justice that is being denied all people of faith — and to do that, the political process must be leveraged with vigor and abandon. But this must be done through the lens of our faith, with the lead of our God.

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