On Thursday, an X account called “Woke Preacher Clips” post a video of clip of N.T. Wright talking about American politics:
The entire video is here, but it was the clip I posted above that lit a fire under the MAGA right. Some examples:
This guy works for the Charles Colson Center:
This guy works for Liberty University:
A post-Marvin Olasky World magazine (after the Albert Mohler takeover) columnist:
Coming together to “dunk” on someone should be cheered by Christians:
Has Megan ever mentioned that this was why she wrote her book?
A podcaster and pastor:
Podcaster:
“A farcical, unintelligible pile of nonsense”:
I guess I am “profoundly idiotic”:
This guy is upset because Wright, an Englishman, doesn’t like the Second Amendment:
Wow! NT Wright can express his opinions. And I think it is all right to be critical of our country and our cultural inconsistancies as an observer has he has. . I guess it is equally all right to criticize his opinion. I would rather the disagreement was around the issue and not demeaning someone who disagrees. I remember the days of old when we subscribed to the NRA’s periodlicals. I also remember the day when my husband and I decided to cancel it. Politically, my husband lived in accord on most everything except politics. Even though he was a Republican and I was by then a Democrat we both felt that the NRA seemed to be more concerned about the second amendment than Hunting. My husband continued to hunt, but be we no longer subscribed to that particular journal.
Wrights; and I don’t always agree with him; but that is ok. I no longer read tweets or whatever, unless it is referred to somewhere else. Reading the comments in reaction would tempt me to return if I thought responders weren’t spouting off and trying to tear down the person with whom that disagree our the group with whom one disagrees.
By God’s grace, I tuned into the actual interview on Spotify and heard it. I really appreciated it and now think I better understand how I serve God’s kingdom by the way I live in the world’s kingdom. I think he was acknowledging that people have different views and we need to learn how to talk about them without this kind of hysteria. His intention was not to demean anyone. I pray people could investigate a statement in the complete context before voicing an opinion about what the speaker was saying. I think the people who make a living pointing to what people say out of its actual context are doing a great disservice to their viewers, and the people who gobble it up are refusing to do due diligence.