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An Atheist’s Case for More Christianity in Politics

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David French: 作为一名毕生的福音派人士和政治保守派，我对白人福音派如此热情和强烈地追随唐纳德·特朗普感到震惊和非常惊讶。我在福音派美国长大，但我没有预料到他们会拥抱唐纳德·特朗普。局外人有时能比局内人更清楚地看到社区。乔纳森·劳赫对理解基督教在美国政治中扮演的角色充满热情，即使他不是基督徒。乔纳森·劳赫的工作可以教我们基督教如何救赎我们的民主。我想问你，为什么你采取这种方法，认为更好的基督教是答案，而不是没有基督教？ Jonathan Rauch: 为了使我们的国家走上更好的轨道，真正需要发生的是基督教变得更像它自己，变得更像真正的基督教，而不是变得更世俗或更自由。基督教的三个基本原则与麦迪逊自由主义的三个基本原则非常吻合：不要害怕，要像耶稣一样，互相原谅。基督教的三个基本原则与管理宪政共和国的方式非常相似。基督教是民主的承重墙。我们的自由世俗宪法依赖于真诚、守法和人人平等等美德，而这些美德必须来自外部来源，主要是宗教。一旦基督教开始崩溃，人们就会开始在其他地方寻找价值观的来源，比如觉醒主义、匿名者Q或MAGA，而这些价值观无法用来支撑民主。

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We’ll be back next week with a new episode, but in the meantime we’re kicking off 2025 with a great conversation from our friends at “The Opinions.” 

In this episode, the New York Times Opinion columnist David French, a lifelong evangelical, speaks to Jonathan Rauch, an atheist and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the crisis of Christianity in the United States and how faith might be the only way to redeem democracy.

*(A full transcript of this episode is available on the Times website.) *

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