J.D. Vance, and Why Progressive Christians Hate the Doctrine of “Ordered Loves”
The Vice President takes Progressive Evangelicals to church on basic Christian teachings. Their teaching is political, not Biblical.
NOTE: My friend Michael Clary at the wonderful Center for Baptist Leadership addresses the Vice President’s oddly controversial statements that though we love “the other”, we actually are supposed to love our own more. — RDM
by Michael Clary
February 9, 2025
How do we determine our moral obligation to others? Is our moral duty to our own family and children identical to a stranger across town? To someone on the other side of the globe?
Vice President J. D. Vance recently caused a stir in a Fox News interview with these comments:
“There’s this old school — and I think it’s a very Christian concept, by the way — you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.
“A lot of the far Left has completely inverted that. They seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders. That …