Whenever I hear people talk about the Christian/Catholic vote I always wonder why it has nothing to do with Matthew 25.
I reckon if Jesus was a registered Australian voter today he’d probably vote the Greens first based on Matthew 25.
@joshua The difficulty in drawing a line-to-line between religion and public policy is that the moral precepts of faith do not always lineup with the configurations of parties and partisanship. And more often than not, the partisanship distorts the religion rather than the religion positively influencing the politics. Much of these problems are exacerbated by elites (right, left, whatever) willfully ignoring the thousands of years of history and writing on Christian ethics and politics which would help alleviate some of the society-level conceptual confusions.
@lukemperez A powerful (and somehow particularly disheartening) article at the Atlantic on politics distorting religion this week: How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church
@ReaderJohn I have it queued in Matter. You may also be interested in this book on the topic. I know Paul Miller and am expecting an advanced copy of it soon.