Megan Basham
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making sure that everyone is getting what they need, which is a very amorphous definition that could mean anything to any person.
We know where justice is and where we find the definition of justice.
And I did find it pretty fascinating that even though this Bible study curriculum is not supposed to be about partisanship, it's not supposed to tell you how to vote, what to vote for, but how you should approach it.
When Rockefeller noted the funding, they said,
it's going to be unrolling in the battleground, and they use that word, battleground of Ohio.
And none of these people, Curtis Chang, David French, or Russell Moore, live in Ohio.
So that was interesting.
And then the big issue, when you look at it, you go, in part of the Bible study, they say, really what Jesus wants for you when you approach politics is, yes, you think about personal relationships, but the relational approach and how you approach it relationally
is what you should prioritize, not policies.
And I went, that's what politics is policy.
Politics is setting policy by definition.
So I don't know what that would mean to say I'm going to approach politics relationally and not with an eye toward policy.
What?
Yeah, I couldn't make sense of that.
And so if you follow me on Twitter, I posted a screenshot of it and I went,
I am trying to make sense of what this means because that's what politics is, setting policy.
Yeah, I mean, that was essentially what I took away from that was that you should be somewhat
quiet.
I don't know if they would have used the word ashamed, but that was how I came away from it, going, gosh, you should just be very gentle in how you present your opinions and your worldview.
To a certain degree, you go, well, yeah, you don't want to be a jerk.