The different strains of Christianity have different approaches to politics, based on their assumptions about theology and church polity. Baptists focus on individual liberty. Methodists seek social perfection. Calvinists criticize the culture and want to take it over. Lutherans. . .well, that's a little complicated. (A free post)
Religious conversion generally has to do with spiritual transformation, personal commitment, theological conviction, and the like. But we are now seeing conversions to make a political statement. And yet, these too can grow into genuine faith.
"Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. The Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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