Most pastors don’t preach “be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth” or “whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed” or God calls sodomy an “abomination” because people would fault him for being “political” in his preaching.
Charlie preached these things on college campuses, but Christians say, “He’s not a Christian martyr b/c he died for his political views. Not his Christian witness. His assassin murdered him b/c of his political views, not his Christian faith.”
So confessing Christ by speaking of the blessing of marriage and fruitfulness while condemning the moral filth and bloodlust of our culture is politics—not religion—in the pulpit; and politics—not religion—in the public square. In other words, calling men to become the disciples of Jesus Christ, the Lord of all the earth, is merely political partisanship everywhere.
Checkmate.
We must never cede the definition of what is “political” to unbelievers.
