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3.4 – Covfefe & CS Lewis, a Natural Pairing

June 2, 2017 by Phil Leave a Comment

What is “covfefe”? No one knows, except for a very small group. Either way, CS Lewis knows a lot about why we don’t have a Christian society, and Kevon and Phil would like to discuss this with you. You can read the quoted portions of Mere Christianity in the blog section of our site.

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Episode Resources
Sean Spicer just had the worst possible answer to the “covfefe” question
Teddy Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” Speech
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis | Quoted Bits

http://www.ignorancepodcast.com/episodes/3-4-covfefe-lewis.mp3

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Christianity, Donald Trump, Kingdom of God, political theory/philosophy, President, theology, Trump, USA

Mere Christianity Quotes from Episode 3.4

June 1, 2017 by Phil 1 Comment

People say, ‘The Church ought to give us a lead.’ That is true if they mean it in the right way, but false if they mean it in the wrong way. By the Church they ought to mean the whole body of practising Christians. And when they say that the Church should give us a lead, they ought to mean that some Christians—those who happen to have the right talents—should be economists and statesmen, and that all economists and statesmen should be Christians, and that their whole efforts in politics and economics should be directed to putting ‘Do as you would be done by’ into action. If that happened, and if we others were really ready to take it, then we should find the Christian solution for our own social problems pretty quickly. But, of course, when they ask for a lead from the Church most people mean they want the clergy to put out a political programme. That is silly. The clergy are those particular people within the whole Church who have been specially trained and set aside to look after what concerns us as creatures who are going to live for ever: and we are asking them to do a quite different job for which they have not been trained. The job is really on us, on the laymen. The application of Christian principles, say, to trade unionism or education, must come from Christian trade unionists and Christian schoolmasters: just as Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists—not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays and novels in their spare time….

If there were such a society in existence and you or I visited it, I think we should come away with a curious impression. We should feel that its economic life was very socialistic and, in that sense, ‘advanced’, but that its family life and its code of manners were rather old fashioned—perhaps even ceremonious and aristocratic. Each of us would like some bits of it, but I am afraid very few of us would like the whole thing. That is just what one would expect if Christianity is the total plan for the human machine. We have all departed from that total plan in different ways, and each of us wants to make out that his own modification of the original plan is the plan itself. You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and wants to pick out those bits and leave the rest….

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party. We are looking for an ally where we are offered either a Master or—a Judge….A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian.

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

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2.5 – Being a Monarchist

November 11, 2016 by Phil Leave a Comment

The boys have come down with a severe case of too much politics. But don’t worry! They’ll be back next week to breakdown this broken election. For now, you’ll just have to listen to Phil’s final session of class on “How Should Christians Vote?”—we hope you enjoy!

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Mentioned in the Episode
How Should Christians Vote? by Tony Evans

http://www.ignorancepodcast.com/episodes/2-5-monarchist.mp3

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Christianity, Democrats, Kingdom of God, Monarchist, political parties, presidential election, Republicans, theology, USA

1.23 – Establishing a Christian Worldview

September 16, 2016 by Phil Leave a Comment

Phil and Kevon are so sorry that they have been gone for so long. They will be back in the studio soon. Until they do, here’s some audio from a class Phil taught at his church. The class was based upon Tony Evan’s book How Should Christians Votes?, which we’ve mentioned several times before.

We hope you enjoy this “substitute” episode and will help us by spreading the word as The Ignorance of Church and State gears up for Season 2.

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Mentioned in the Episode
How Should Christians Vote? by Tony Evans

http://www.ignorancepodcast.com/episodes/1.23-christian-worldview.mp3

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Christianity, Democrats, history, Kingdom of God, morality, Republicans, US history, worldview

1.7 God or Government?

April 1, 2016 by Phil Leave a Comment

Do you trust more in God or in the government? Not sure? Here’s a quick test: how worried are you about politics, the election, etc.?

Kevon and Phil explore this topic with some help from Phil’s pastor, Erik Scottberg.

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Mentioned in the Episode
John 18:28-40
Romans 13:1-7

http://ignorancepodcast.com/episodes/1.7-god-or-gov.mp3

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Christianity, faith, fear, Kingdom of God, presidential election, USA

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