182. Doug Wilson on NPR — Oh, How I Love the Constitution?
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Chris Hume discusses Doug Wilson's NPR interview regarding the Constitution and its implications for Christian law.
On this episode of The Lancaster Patriot Podcast , presented by Future of Christendom, Chris Hume responds to Doug Wilson's recent NPR interview — and to one revealing line in particular: "I love the Constitution… I love the constitutional structure." It sounds like a harmless patriotic sentiment. But God has given His people a law and a structure for justice of His own — so what should we make of it when a prominent Christian leader professes love for a man-made one? Chris argues that this instinct doesn't stand alone. It's tied directly to a second thing Wilson said in the same interview: that he's not interested in applying the Old Testament straight across with no variations — that the judicial law no longer applies. And that, Chris contends, is the root: once you conclude God's judicial law has passed off the stage, you're left with a vacuum where the civil standard should be, and something has to fill it. Man does. And so a good man learns to love the framework men have built. During the episode, Chris mentions an article highlighting how early American leaders began treating the Constitution like Holy Writ. To clarify a detail from the audio: it was actually John…
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