Humans are inherently religious and worshipping creatures, seeking ultimate concerns that imbue life with purpose and meaning.
Sinful and broken human nature leads to the co-option of the sacred to justify self-interests, nationalistic ideologies, and group superiority over others.
Idolatry, where God is used to legitimize personal agendas, is presented as the default and perpetual state, supported by scriptural examples.
The pervasive idolatry tempts many to reject religion from public life, seeking a purely secular politics based on humanistic ideals.
However, removing the sacred from public life leads to nihilism, characterized by a lack of meaning, purpose, and existential desolation.
Nihilism creates a hunger for meaning, making individuals more vulnerable to ideological radicalization and its associated temptations toward violence.
The Christian political witness is characterized as a navigation between idolatry (the default state of self-interested worship) and nihilism (the void created by removing the sacred).
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