undermining Babylon System

I’d suggest listening to this song while reading this post — it’ll help you understand the point of my use of italics. Most of my work is about literature and the arts, and I like it that way. I plan to keep it that way. In fact, I plan to go even further in that direction than I have. But I also have a long history here on this blog of thinking out loud about political and social issues, and I have been, over the course of the last fifteen years or so, elaborating an argument that I would like to summarize right now, with links to the key posts. I’ve written some interlocking series that collectively constitute the extended form of this argument, but here I’m will try to summarize my case as concisely and pointedly as I can. What most Christians — on the theological right, the theological left, and in the middle — fail to understand is the fundamental distinction between the city of God and the city of man. We (by which I mean “those total losers among my fellow Christians, and…