“Christian Nationalists” and “Progressive Christians” are just different sides of the same coin.

That’s because they’re both utopian ideologies – even though at odds with each other – which claim perfectibility in the here and now.

Inevitably, this leads to tyranny as they are reduced to seeking unlimited government power to impose their unrealistic goals on everyone else …

Under the rationale that it’s for our own greater “good.”

Ultimately, they can’t allow opposing views to get in the way of creating their perfect societies where everyone thinks, believes and acts like them …

Through coercion if necessary.

In contrast, civil liberty this side of Heaven is only possible if we acknowledge our frailties and imperfectibility …

And give government only enough power to protect us from evildoers – rather than the unlimited power needed to turn us into somebody else’s notion of “do gooders.”

Only then can we be free to pursue true virtue as God directs and intends …

Rather than live under the false virtue of utopian tyranny.

Don’t fall prey to either form of unbiblical extremism …

Because God’s into plumblines, not swings of the pendulum.