Hannah Arendt

Okay new comment: sucks for sending messages. Hope you can make out what I was already yammering about. So to put it shortly: you make a false equivalence between left and right, and calling it a movement toward “purity”. Please give us examples where the political or religious left is striving for some purist leftist theocratic total society. Even the leaders of the ELCA disavow this as a goal, neither political nor theological.

… that the left is doing anything close to what the political right is doing. I do to see utopian (dystopia) plans being implemented by the left. I’m afraid you’re making a false equivalence. Right now, the danger is coming from the right, and I believe in what really smart educated folks like Timothy Snyder have to say about, who are experts on fascist movements of the 20th century, who hold degrees in history, and who is professor emeritus.

… especially with the as ebdency of Donald Trump, but where on the left is there some organized & coherent stategy being implemented? I really don’t see this. Yes there is a lot of angst on the left, but we are in no danger of becoming some leftist ( or leftist-theocratic) society. Heck, the left can’t even keep organized among themselves. I have to call out this false equivalency as hogwash. Show us some proof that the left is doing or organizing anything like the right is.

But I need to reply to something you said in this podcast on Hannah Arendt. You spoke that both political right and political left want to force their own utopian view of a Christian kingdom upon society. As much as I disagree with some aspects of the ELCA use of social justice (what appears to be) as a new definition of the gospel, I have to disagree that both sides are doing this. Instead, I see the religious right doing this and unfortunately gaining ground in recent years…

Hey, first off I want to say I love your podcast, and the insights you both cull together.