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

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:

Mohler responded with this:

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.

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