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Do you guys remember when that the insurance company CEO got assassinated and got shot in the back? This is like a dad with two two young kids. So, this is a mainstream dude with the New York Times giving his response to the assassination. Again, political violence.
Engles wrote about the concept of social murder. Pause. What he's saying is, yeah, somebody was shot in the back, but honestly, that guy actually, because of the systemic nature of what's happening in our society, he committed a form of what's called social murder.
Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder: the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit paywalled system of healthcare in this country, and the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths.
Just notice you're seeing a justification rationale because of the pervasive pain that the private health care system had created for the average American. I saw so many people immediately understand why this death had taken place. Just pause and let that sink in.
If you take secular progressive ideals all the way out to their natural consequences, you are going to end up with political violence. It's built on top of a critical theory lens. It's various forms of critical theory. They all come together: queer theory, anti-racist, all the things.
So, critical theory sees the world through an oppressed-oppressor lens. Christian theology, on the other hand, it sees the world through a right-versus-wrong lens.
If I view the world through a right-versus-wrong lens, I just think you're wrong. And so, I want to reason with you and try to persuade you. But if I view the world through an oppressed-oppressor lens, they're not just wrong; they're actually evil oppressors.
That, by the way, is where you get rhetoric like, "He's literally Hitler," "He's a fascist," by the way. That was what was on the bullet casings in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. "Hey, fascist, catch!" He is an existential threat to democracy. Literally everything and everyone is racist.
If you disagree with me, and I don't just think you're wrong, I believe you're an evil oppressor. I'm not going to try to persuade you. I begin to feel a moral obligation to stop you. You lie to yourself and tell yourself, "I'm actually a hero." Someone's got to take one for the team, and I'm willing to stop this modern-day Hitler. And the father of lies, who's so good at lies, convinces you this is actually you doing the most noble thing.
If you have a worldview that's built on top of Christian theology, there's moral guardrails built into our our views of opposition. You're not allowed to live by the sword. That's Jesus. You shall not murder. Obviously, in secular progressivism, if there is no moral lawgiver, well, now I don't have any moral law that's restraining me taking life, and the ends justify the means. Ends justify the means. It's just it's sheer Nietzschean will to power.
What Christians need to learn to think better at a worldview level, and I want to keep saying the same thing: Politics cannot fix what politics did not break. And mankind was broken long before any political system was ever put in place. There is one thing and one thing only that can fix what is wrong with mankind. You need Jesus Christ.