South Korea’s demographic crisis is no secret: plummeting birth rates, collapsing marriages, and a society aging faster than it can replenish itself.

What’s less discussed is how this crisis has seeped into the Catholic Church. Faced with shrinking congregations and a growing sense of irrelevance, church leaders in South Korea have not turned inward toward doctrine or upward toward God. They’ve turned, instead, to circuits and code.

When scripture gets scripted

From Seoul to Suncheon, priests are now being trained to use generative AI. Not to critique it or guard the faithful from its implications, but to embrace it — enthusiastically. They’re using ChatGPT to write sermons and generate liturgical music.

What once began in the minds of Silicon Valley technocrats is now being welcomed into the sanctuary.

This shift marks a deep departure from the church’s foundation. A tradition grounded in divine revelation is beginning to rely on predictive text to feed its flock. Priests are swapping prayers for prompts. Scripture is being blended with machine-generated syntax, often created by people who view religion as an outdated, outlandish myth.

Herein lies the problem: Algorithms don’t understand dogma. They optimize for relevance, not revelation.

AI won’t march into a parish and demand the pulpit. It doesn’t need to. All it takes is gradual adoption, dressed in euphemisms like “pastoral efficiency” and “digital evangelization.” In the process, the church begins to outsource something essential — discernment, once the backbone of spiritual leadership, now handed off to a machine.

The gospel isn’t a trend to follow. If anything, it’s the remedy for a world lost in trends.

And once AI begins shaping sermons, it also begins shaping belief. The process is slow, subtle, and in many ways suicidal. A softened passage here. A reworded doctrine there. A few iterations later, the original message remains in form but loses its force — still quoting scripture, but lacking the strength, the substance, and the sacred weight it once carried.

Truth bends to the tone of the digital mood. And the faithful, unaware, are guided by a voice that knows nothing of their souls.

From Calvary to clickbait

Meanwhile, in Rome, the Vatican just celebrated a different kind of digital transformation.

Last month, the Catholic Church held a “digital jubilee,” honoring 1,000 priests and friars who have embraced the role of influencer. But these men are not known for spiritual authority. They’re known for gym selfies, poetic reels, and dog videos. Some offer blessings between squat reps, but none offer hope.

The church likes to call it outreach, but it’s really just image management with a halo filter. The priesthood, once a solemn and set-apart vocation, is now being curated for online consumption. Mass increasingly feels like a soft-lit content shoot, complete with drone footage and lo-fi background music. The Eucharist is staged like a backdrop. Captions do the work catechism once did. Sermons are trimmed to fit reels, and followers are counted like conversions.

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Somewhere along the way, the line between preaching and performing vanished.

There’s a quiet seduction at work. The lure of virality, the steady drip of likes, shares, and algorithmic affirmation. But the church was never called to be entertaining, and it wasn’t built to chase engagement metrics or trend on TikTok. Its task has always been to rouse the soul, not flatter it. To call people into spiritual battle, not soothe them with hashtags and Father Fabio’s weekend vlog.

The goal was never visibility. It was salvation — a far less marketable, far more demanding thing.

In chasing relevance, the church allows the culture to set the terms. It tries to keep pace with a world that’s built to forget. But the gospel isn’t a trend to follow. If anything, it’s the remedy for a world lost in trends.

When relevance replaces revelation

When priests become influencers, they lose the distance that once gave their words weight. And when the Church lets AI in without caution, it mistakes manipulation for modernization. Homilies no longer rise from prayer or tradition. They’re assembled through autocomplete. Doctrine doesn’t need to be debated; it just needs to be updated.

But the world doesn’t need a church that mimics it. It needs a church that holds firm, one that doesn’t run the race for relevance, but stays rooted solid, unchanging, unapologetic.

That spirit isn’t gone, but reclaiming it will take courage. The kind that says no, not just to shiny tools, but to the creeping belief that real problems demand digital fixes. It means pushing back against the idea that relevance is the highest virtue. It means remembering that the priest isn’t a host, the church isn’t a brand, and the Mass isn’t content.

Truth doesn’t evolve with audience feedback. It isn’t versioned. It doesn’t run on engagement or A/B test itself. It just stands — stubborn, unmoved, inconvenient. And the church’s job has always been to stand with it, not tweak it for better traction.

If the church forgets that — and if it keeps chasing applause instead of holding the line — it won’t be silenced, persecuted, or driven underground. It’ll be liked, shared, and celebrated right into irrelevance, gradually transformed into yet another lifestyle brand, one more voice amid a noisy feed, fading away as soon as the algorithm shifts.

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Americans love to blame politicians — and often with good reason. But the real power in this country doesn’t rest with the people we elect. It rests with the ones we don’t. Unelected judges now govern America. They don’t interpret laws. They rewrite them.

Activist judges have become the unelected elite now running our country, handing down rulings that override the will of voters, defy elected legislatures, and erase laws they don’t like.

One state is trying to protect life; the other is trying to shield those who end it. And a single judge gets to pick which law counts.

They employ manipulative language to justify their overreach. If you don’t comply, blood is on your hands. Whether it’s the environment, vaccine mandates, border control, or abortion access, the refrain is always the same: Submit to the ruling, or people will die.

The irony couldn’t be more blatant.

In many cases involving abortion policy, it is in fact judges’ rulings that cost lives — lives of the unborn babies impacted by their rogue, dangerous decisions.

Take the recent case in Tennessee, where a federal judge blocked a law that protected minors from being trafficked across state lines for secret abortions. The law didn’t punish women. It didn’t outlaw abortion. It simply required parental involvement, something the majority of Americans support. But for activist judges, parental rights are optional if abortion is the end goal.

In New York, another judge defied federal authority and openly refused to cooperate with Texas law enforcement to hold a doctor accountable for illegally prescribing abortion pills. One state is trying to protect life; the other is trying to shield those who end it. And a single judge gets to pick which law counts.

Meanwhile, a federal judge overturned efforts to defund Planned Parenthood nationwide, even after Congress passed clear budget restrictions. The elected branches — chosen by the people — made a decision. But it didn’t matter. The judge didn’t like it, so the ruling class overruled the people and prioritized its holy grail: abortion.

Judicial activism has turned the courts into abortion war rooms. Judges now see themselves not as interpreters of law but as defenders of an ideology that elevates abortion above the democratic process. Their rulings don’t reflect any laws. They reflect a commitment to abortion at any cost.

It’s not just dangerous. It’s undemocratic.

Thankfully, the Supreme Court is beginning to push back. In a recent ruling, the court clarified that district judges cannot issue nationwide injunctions and block federal policies. It’s a necessary and overdue correction. But it’s only the beginning.

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The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and gave power back to the people. In many states across the country, Americans responded by electing leaders and passing laws to protect the unborn. But today, activist judges are overriding those efforts, blocking pro-life laws and shielding abortionists from accountability.

We need judges who apply the law, not rewrite it. Until that happens, every unborn child, every woman in danger of being exploited by the abortion industry, and every citizen fighting for life will remain at the mercy of unelected rulers.

The Dobbs decision was only the beginning. Now we must press forward to ensure that the will of the people is honored and the most vulnerable among us are finally protected.

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An extremely rare and exceptionally well-preserved clay seal that’s 2,600 years old has been unearthed by archaeologists in Israel. Experts believe the clay seal is of a figure named in the Hebrew Bible.

Last month, archaeologist Mordechai Ehrlich discovered a clay sealing at ongoing excavations in Jerusalem.

‘Now, there are maybe 10 or 20 times more known [seals] found during controlled archaeological work than in the past.’

The Temple Mount Sifting Project stated:

Marks on the back of the artifact indicate it was used as a sealing on a bag or storage container. Remarkably, the sealing still retains a clear fingerprint, presumably left by the ancient official who once owned it. According to the style of writing, the sealing dates to the late First Temple period (approximately the late-7th century BCE to the early-6th century BCE).

Researchers on the study — Anat Mendel-Geberovich and Zachi Dvira — have fully deciphered the Hebrew inscription on the artifact; it reads: “Belonging to Yed[a‛]yah (son of) Asayahu.”

The researchers say the clay seal impression, known as a bulla, bears the name of an important official who is in the story of King Josiah of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh.

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According to 2 Kings 22:3-7:

In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the secretary, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the temple of the LORD. He said: “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him get ready the money that has been brought into the temple of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people. Have them entrust it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. And have these men pay the workers who repair the temple of the LORD — the carpenters, the builders and the masons. Also have them purchase timber and dressed stone to repair the temple. But they need not account for the money entrusted to them, because they are honest in their dealings.”

While the workers were repairing the temple, they discovered “an ancient scroll that warned of punishment from God,” Popular Mechanics reported.

King Josiah was concerned about the prophecy, so he dispatched his court officials to consult a prophetess named Huldah.

Among these trusted advisers was Asayahu, a high-ranking official often described as “the king’s servant.” Scholars suspect that Asayahu’s son, Yeda‛yah, likely held a prominent post of his own during the same time period.

Researchers with the Temple Mount Sifting Project consider it “highly plausible” that the seal is of the distinguished official named in the Hebrew Bible.

The Temple Mount Sifting Project noted, “Historically, seals like these were reserved for officials of high rank, and many individuals named in similar discoveries from Jerusalem have been directly identified with biblical-era officials.”

“The artifact’s discovery on the Temple Mount further supports the likelihood of this connection,” the Temple Mount Sifting Project site stated. “Thus, the clay sealing’s owner was probably involved in Temple administration or in the royal household, much like his father.”

Dvira told the Times of Israel, “Obviously, we are not sure that the Asayahu mentioned on the sealing is the same that appears in the Bible. However, several such artifacts found in the area of the Temple Mount carry biblical names, and it does make sense, because these were not objects used by common people.”

“Because of their small size, clay sealings are difficult to identify,” Dvira explained. “In the past, most of the [seals] came from the antiquity market, but as we developed new techniques to sift through massive amounts of dirt, more excavations have started to either employ our sifting services or carry out their own sifting. Now, there are maybe 10 or 20 times more known [seals] found during controlled archaeological work than in the past.”

Temple Mount Sifting Project said archaeologists had previously discovered another bulla with the same name of an official who served in the temple treasury administration.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is putting radical left protesters and rioters on notice after the Biden administration spent four years turning a blind eye to their rampant politically driven violence.

Instead of going after those who were actually violent, the Biden administration had its sights set on a different kind of protester.

“I released several documents back in May that really laid out the foundational documents and strategy that the Biden administration used in labeling groups and individuals as domestic violent extremists,” Gabbard explains.

“It was like, ‘Hey, if parents are angry or worried that their kids may get the COVID vaccine at school without their approval, they may be a potential domestic violent extremist,’” she continues.

“What was also interesting was how they diminished Antifa under the Biden administration, downplaying the threat that they posed, again, to the safety and security of our communities,” she adds.

“I mean, they don’t seem to be afraid of anything. They’ve never really paid a price,” Glenn says.

And rather than pay the price, some of them are even celebrated.

“I see people — you know, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot. Everybody — you know, 40% of youth think that that was great,” he says, noting that as the left grows angrier at Trump, the higher the chances are that people pull stunts like the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting or stage more violent protests.

“How concerned are we about the reaction of the left on the streets with every move that Donald Trump makes? Every move like this — does that play a role? Should it play a role in how we proceed?” Glenn asks.

“We have to stand strong for the truth. We have to stand strong for justice, and the Constitution, and for freedom. These are things that many of these bad actors here frankly don’t believe in,” Gabbard responds.

However, there have been good signs recently.

“The mainstream media will do what they do,” she says, adding, “I think there is a positive here and that fewer and fewer people actually read the mainstream media. Fewer people actually believe in them. I just saw CNN and MSNBC’s viewership numbers from the last week. Absolutely abysmal.”

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The White House announced measures to address the ongoing crime crisis in Washington, D.C., after repeated warnings from President Donald Trump about a potential federal government intervention.

In early July, Trump noted his disappointment with the crime rates, stating, “We could run D.C.”

‘There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.”‘

“We’re thinking about doing it, to be honest with you,” he continued. “We want a capital that’s run flawlessly, and it wouldn’t be hard for us to do it.”

This past week, Trump repeated those threats after Edward Coristine, an engineer also known as “Big Balls” who previously worked for the Department of Government Efficiency, was brutally beaten by a group of individuals while protecting a woman from an attempted carjacking near Dupont Circle.

Trump wrote in a post on social media, “Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now!”

The attack appeared to be the final straw for the president, prompting the administration to deploy additional federal agents around D.C. on Friday as part of a weeklong effort to reduce crime.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “This is the first step in stopping the violent crime that has been plaguing the streets of Washington, D.C.”

A White House official told NBC News that the federal officers would focus their efforts on heavily trafficked areas and be “highly visible and in marked units.”

The administration reportedly deployed agents from the U.S. Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI, the U.S. Capitol Police, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the U.S. Marshals Service.

The U.S. Park Police wrote in a post on social media Friday that its officers, with assistance from federal partners, arrested individuals for “possession of two stolen firearms and illegal drugs removing these dangerous items from the community.”

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Over the weekend, Trump announced he will reveal plans on Monday to “essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C.”

He said, “It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the safest!!!”

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Trump shared more details about his plans in a separate post on Truth Social.

“I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before,” Trump wrote. “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no ‘MR. NICE GUY.’ We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, crime rates in D.C. have significantly declined over the past year. However, the department’s Police Commander Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in May after a police union accused the department of deliberately manipulating crime data. As of Sunday afternoon, the MPD’s website stated that violent crime is down 26% compared to 2024.

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Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy was disturbed to hear what some young voters are advocating for.

Young activists expressed their support for politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at a progressive event in Washington, D.C., recently.

The Fighting for Our Future event featured Democrat speakers and even former Democratic National Committee vice chair and anti-gun activist David Hogg.

During an appearance on Fox News, Portnoy was asked to react to some of the political leanings of the progressives who went to the event.

‘These are college kids, they’ve never probably had a job in their lives.’

“I think more politicians should be adopting socialism,” an attendee named Reihena Djema told Fox News.

“Seeing people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC just gaining so much more footing and so much more recognition in the policy field is very empowering,” said university student Zainab Chowdry.

Portnoy reacted to the clips on Fox News’ “Varney & Co.,” saying, “It makes me want to puke. … That’s how I feel about that.”

The business owner continued, “These are college kids. They’ve never probably had a job in their lives. They’ve grown up probably coddled, reading books about how the world is, but they’ve never been in the real world.”

The 48-year-old started Barstool Sports around 2004 and has routinely expressed his dislike of socialist policies. He told host Stuart Varney that he disapproves of “any” form of government that “disincentivizes initiative.”

“Socialism doesn’t work. There’s plenty examples of it. … I just fundamentally have a hard time with a 19- or a 20-year-old … I just can’t have somebody who has been alive for five seconds lecturing me on the ways of the world,” Portnoy added.

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AOC and Mamdani were top of mind for those who spoke on record with Fox News at the socialist event, with Djema adding that she “really like[s] AOC,” except for the fact that the congresswoman is not sufficiently “vocal about Palestine.”

“But other than that, I really think that she should be the leader of the Democratic Party as she is a Democratic socialist.”

Djema also said that it is “really important” to be “class-conscious” and “remove ourselves from this neoliberal idea that it’s okay to do capitalism and exploit workers.”

As well, a high school student named Ayan Molodina described Mamdani and AOC as “inspiring.”

“Someone like Mamdani, a Muslim like me, and Zainab here, it’s so inspiring to see. I think that someone like that in 2028 can carry a lot of momentum. I think people are so excited.”

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Portnoy shared the segment from Fox News with his X followers and added an older interview he had with a communist activist.

In 2016, Portnoy squabbled with a mask-wearing Antifa activist over the fruits of his labor. After Portnoy asked the young man if he would still feel the same about capitalism if he had worked as hard and earned as much as Portnoy has, the activist told him he would not “build [himself] up by exploiting other people’s labor.”

Portnoy retorted by asking the activist if he had ever been to Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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The greatest threat to America may be something we cannot see.

Biological and chemical weapons can spread debilitating fear and wreak havoc on populations. Unfortunately, the threat of these kinds of attacks on American soil is only rising, empowered by the unique capabilities of artificial intelligence. To prevent catastrophe, we must use AI to counter the danger that this advanced technology can unleash.

We are only one misstep away from catastrophe. The most recent close call came last month, when two Chinese nationals, who received funding from their communist government to work on a noxious fungus, were caught smuggling the pathogen into the United States. The FBI arrested them just in time.

AI could spark the next pandemic and be an unparalleled tool in the hands of terrorists.

This was no ordinary fungus. It was what scientists call an “agroterrorism weapon” that would have decimated America’s grain farms, sickened the U.S. population, and disrupted our nation’s food supply.

Those who lived through the fraught days immediately after 9/11 likewise remember the anthrax scare, as toxic letters were sent through the postal service, killing five people and making everyday Americans terrified to open their mailboxes.

Every few years, some new suspect threatens our military bases, political leaders, or someone else with ricin, a deadly poison derived from the castor plant.

And just a few short years ago, millions died and the entire world was thrown into a tailspin when COVID-19 — which many experts now believe originated from questionable handling and a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology — crossed borders with abandon.

AI bioweapons are already happening

The rapid rise of AI is only making this problem more prevalent. In 2022 — months before ChatGPT was released, bringing large language models to the masses — an AI designed to develop drugs invented 40,000 new chemical weapons in a mere six hours.

In 2023, AI was used to provide a recipe for poisonous chloramine gas, which it called “Aromatic Water Mix.” AI experts and government officials have been warning for years that AI could spark the next pandemic and be an unparalleled tool in the hands of terrorists.

Such events have inspired a growing number of rightfully concerned individuals to demand a pause on AI development. We have enough problems with biological espionage, terrorism by mail, and lethal lab leaks. Why would we put potential biological and chemical weapons generators in the hands of anyone with a computer?

But responding to this threat is not so simple as pulling the plug. First, while AI has the potential to be used for evil, it also has immense power for good. The same tools that could be used to make biological weapons are also being applied to cure currently untreatable diseases.

Additionally, America can’t stop others from developing AI for whatever uses they desire. COVID-19 and the recent agroterrorism fungus both came from China, and you can bet China will have no problem unleashing AI for even more destructive ends if it serves China’s interests, as will every other bad actor in the world.

So what else can we do?

Achievable protections

First, the administration should continue to aggressively investigate and thwart potential acts of biological and chemical terrorism. The recent FBI arrest of the Chinese fungus-smugglers proves that America’s law enforcement is aware of this threat and still capable of preventing attacks before they happen.

Likewise, President Donald Trump acted presciently in his first administration by launching the first-ever National Biodefense Strategy in 2018, which outlined how our nation can defend against natural outbreaks and intentional biological attacks.

This strategy, coupled with the president’s swift military action against Syria for its use of biological weapons that same year, reveals that the current administration will still use the immense power of American deterrence to stop the use of these deadly weapons.

Yet with AI poised to rapidly exacerbate biological and chemical weapons proliferation, traditional tools are not enough. We must use AI to respond to AI.

The private sector is already on the case. Companies like Renovaro and OpenAI, two U.S.-based AI firms, are already applying machine learning to both prevent AI from producing recipes for weaponry and to identify and counter biological and chemical threats before they can spiral out of control.

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New coding produced by top AI experts can be applied to any large language model to prevent it from teaching users how to make weapons of mass destruction. For those pathogens that slip through the cracks, Renovaro’s AI has the potential to develop antidotes to biological and chemical samples within five days, light-years faster than the long months it took to develop vaccines and effective treatments for COVID-19.

President Trump promised a Golden Dome to protect America from missile attacks — a worthwhile initiative. Yet the next war may be started not by a missile, but by a microbe. We need a biological Golden Dome, and AI can make it.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.

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An oxymoron is the combination of two contradictory terms to create a new meaning. For example, the words “deafening” and “silence” are sometimes paired to capture the uncomfortable sensation of an environment so quiet the silence rings like a loud noise in one’s ears.

Allie Beth Stuckey, BlazeTV host of “Relatable,” says “progressive Christianity” is an oxymoron because the terms are antithetical.

What meaning do these two words make when paired together? The answer, despite what many argue, is not a branch of Christianity, but a branch of heresy rooted in left-wing political activism.

“A progressive Christian is not a Christian because Christianity is not progressive. It is static,” Allie explains. “It is defined by a central fixed truth. This truth does not change. It doesn’t progress. It doesn’t evolve.”

That central and fixed truth is, of course, the gospel message: Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, atoned for the sins of mankind via his death, offering salvation for those who believe and follow Him.

Allie, citing multiple scriptures, says, “We read that Jesus is a savior from sin and death – spiritual death, which is separation from God in hell. That is the most fundamental defining belief of Christianity.”

However, “those who call themselves progressive Christians deny this central truth” because their definitions of savior, sin, and salvation oppose biblical definitions.

To the progressive Christian, Jesus is “a moral teacher,” “an activist,” “a justification for socialism,” and “a liberator from earthly systems of oppression.”

The Christian faith is seen as “a means by which we fight for the liberation of the oppressed and the marginalized.”

The oppressed and marginalized, as defined exclusively by modern Democrats, includes “the illegal immigrant, the non-white person, the LGBTQ person, and … when it comes to abortion, the woman.” Essentially, anyone “not receiving taxpayer subsidized privileges” falls into this category, says Allie.

And so progressive “Christians” fight for these oppressed and marginalized people by “voting and advocating for a political system that prioritizes [their] needs and the desires … above the needs of the privileged class of oppressors, which are made up of white people, straight men and the rich, and really anyone in any demographic who opposes progressive policies,” Allie explains.

“This is, to the so-called progressive Christian, salvation. This is the kingdom of heaven. This is the gospel in their world. Sin is collective, not personal. Salvation is political, not spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is earthly, not eternal. Jesus is a savior from conservatism, not condemnation,” she adds.

But what does the Bible really teach?

“That there is a perfect holy God who created the world. Because He is holy, He cannot tolerate sin. That’s bad news for us because all of us have sinned – every single one of us,” says Allie.

“But God, because He loves us, warts and all, sins and all, sent someone to reach His perfect standard on our behalf, and that was Jesus, His only son, who lived a perfectly sinless life and yet was executed like a brutal criminal.”

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