social and political life is awash in unconsciously held Christian ideas broken

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/spiritual-shape-political-ideas_819707.html—“Our social and political life is awash in unconsciously held Christian ideas broken from the theology that gave them meaning, and it’s hungry for the identification of sinners—the better to prove the virtue of the accusers and, perhaps especially, to demonstrate the sociopolitical power of the accusers.”—Joseph Bottum

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