Andrew Sullivan to Al Mohler: “It is not conservative to declare absolute truths and then impose then on society”

Mohler should read a bit more in the history of conservativism and the Baptist tradition. 🙂 (Pic from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary bookstore. I can’t remember who sent it)

Al Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and editor of World magazine’s new “Opinions” section, recently challenged the politics of New York Times columnist David Brooks in a piece titled “Sir, you are not a conservative.”

In response to the piece, Andrew Sullivan, an American conservative writer with a Ph.D in government from Harvard who has written extensively on the conservative tradition, wrote:

Al Mahler doesn’t understand the conservative political tradition. It is not conservative to declare absolute truths and then impose them on society. https://t.co/VwPuvprmnh
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) December 14, 2021

Mohler responded with this:

Andrew, some conservatives could claim that argument when society assumed verities now openly denied. We live in a different world now. We had better pray that human dignity is based in ontology, not mere abstraction. Maybe I should write a symphony about that… https://t.co/picVe9fyG7
— Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) December 14, 2021

I am not entirely sure what Mohler is trying to say in this tweet, but he seems to suggest that he actually does believe that it is his role as a conservative to “declare absolute truths and then impose them on society.” Not only does this make the Trump-voting Mohler a Christian nationalist, but it also calls his Baptist credentials into question.