Colleen Carroll Campbell, of NRO, has written The Activist Trap, and I found it to relevant to many of the discussions we have had in the past. As Election Day draws near, Pope Benedict’s warning to his flock is timely and relevant:
The activist trap that Pope Benedict warns against is a common and familiar one: The temptation to align too closely with a particular political party and demonize opponents, to equate one’s personal judgments with the eternal truths of the faith, and to define “the Christian position” on every policy issue, thus losing focus on the few fundamental moral questions where authentic Christian witness is most countercultural and most needed. Lurking beneath those temptations is the one Benedict criticizes most forcefully: The human urge to use social and political activism to distract from our deepest questions, most intimate struggles, and most urgent longings for truth, goodness, beauty — and God.
AMEN!