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Ardently religious people disconnected from great traditions and multigenerational religious institutions generally will lack the wisdom they need to sustain healthy civic life.

Bullfeathers...
Those folks are doing more outside of the church walls than most pastors would ever counsel their parishioners to do. The 'ardently religious' (I'll translate that to "Disciple of Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit) are doing God's work -- checking with Him every morning and...
Buying groceries for people without enough
Providing peer counseling to recovering addicts
Spending time with kids, or old folks, or the homeless and doing what they can.
Making art and literature that brings glory to God instead of promoting filth.

God is getting his followers used to doing their thing on the down low and without a MA(Div) tossing out the interpretation to Romans that hasn't really changed much in 2,000 years...
I'm not too enthused about this dude wanting to make a church a well behaved social club.

Sounds good to say, until you start actually trying to find some faith and humility.

[Scrambler Bob]

Bullfeathers...
Those folks are doing more outside of the church walls than most pastors would ever counsel their parishioners to do. The ‘ardently religious’ (I’ll translate that to “Disciple of Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit) are doing God’s work — checking with Him every morning and...
Buying groceries for people without enough
Providing peer counseling to recovering addicts
Spending time with kids, or old folks, or the homeless and doing what they can.
Making art and literature that brings glory to God instead of promoting filth.
= = =

And the AOC-type govt. is trying to claim they are only a drain on society; cut off their support.