And let us also say that the shape of Democratic politics and the political left is a triangular hole.
Given these geometries, the shape of Christian politics is a square peg.
When you try to fit the square peg into the circular hole there is quite a bit of overlap. But there is also friction. You can't, ultimately, fit a square peg into a round hole.
When you try to fit the square peg into the triangular hole there is also quite a bit of overlap. But there is also friction. You can't, ultimately, fit a square peg into a triangular hole.
Before Roe was overturned the shape of our politics was triangular. Now the shape of our politics is round. What's the Christian view of this new circular arrangement?
You still can't fit a square peg into a round hole.
Stated less metaphorically, the Christian political witness is always one of prophetic critique. All politics participates in the Fall and cannot escape vociferous Christian criticism. As we learn in the Old Testament, every new political regime, every new king, gets a prophet. Every David gets a Nathan saying, "You are the man!" Every Ahab gets an Elijah indicting, "You are the troubler of Israel!" Every Herod gets a John the Baptist calling him, "You fox!" Every Nero gets numbered 666. And every nation gets named as a vassal state of Babylon, "the great city that rules over the kings of the earth." (Rev. 17.18)
The shape of the political holes come and go, none of them fit the square peg of the Christian political witness.
When the shape of politics changes, say from triangular to round or round to triangular, prophetic criticism doesn't go away, it just changes shape. Points of friction that existed between the square peg and the triangular hole might be ameliorated, but this is immediately replaced by different points of friction between the square peg and the round hole.
Christianity creates prophets, not partisans. The geometries of politics and laws change across time and place, but Christians stubbornly remain square pegs, consistently angry, just differently so, depending upon the shape of the hole they are facing.
