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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

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Christianity, Kingdom of God, political parties, theology

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!

If you have any questions, comments, or topic ideas, leave them on the episode page, send us a message on Twitter, or send us an e-mail.

Also, if you could review the podcast in your favorite podcast store, that would really help us!

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

2.2 – Anti-Federalism Dies Hard

October 21, 2016 by Phil Leave a Comment

Who’s tired of all the bickering and mudslinging going on between the two parties? How about we spend some time away from the political fray and go back in time…to talking about two different parties and their bickering?! Join Kevon and Phil for 20 minutes of Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists in the fight over the nature of power and governance in our nation.

If you have any questions or comments, leave them on the episode page, send us a message on Twitter, or send us an e-mail.

Mentioned in the Episode
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

http://www.ignorancepodcast.com/episodes/2-2-anti-fed.mp3

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Branches of Government, federal government, federalism, political history, political parties, political theory/philosophy, US Constitution

1.22 – Two Party (System) Pooper

August 12, 2016 by Phil Leave a Comment

Why do we have a two-party system? Hard to say, since George Washington didn’t want us to. Are these two parties part of our government or merely our tradition? How do they emerge? How do they die? What do we do when neither party fits our needs? We’ll try to answer at least half of these questions with at least one-third accuracy.

If you have any questions or comments, leave them on the episode page, send us a message on Twitter, or send us an e-mail.

Mentioned in the Episode
Republic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig – We haven’t read this yet.
Common Sense with Dan Carlin

http://www.ignorancepodcast.com/episodes/1.22-two-party-pooper.mp3

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Democrats, federal government, history, political history, political parties, presidential election, presidential primaries, Republicans, US history

1.21 – HOW Should Christians Vote?

August 6, 2016 by Phil Leave a Comment

We’ve had the two conventions. We have the two candidates. Everyone seems to have answer “Who should I vote for?” but how many have asked “How should Christians vote?”

That’s exactly what we’re going to get today.

If you have any questions or comments, leave them on the episode page, send us a message on Twitter, or send us an e-mail.

Mentioned in the Episode
How Should Christians Vote? by Tony Evans – Today’s episode was based upon a class Phil taught at church, which was based in part on this book.

http://www.ignorancepodcast.com/episodes/1.21-how-not-who.mp3

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Christian citizenship, Christianity, federal government, political parties, presidential election, USA, voting

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