Want to know your ideology, and understand your psyche? Here’s a good test.

Which of these events gives you MORE of an adverse internal reaction:

1) The summer riots, where churches, holy statues, small businesses, personal homes, and individuals (like Jay Danielson) were destroyed, or ….

2) the capitol building riot (yes, one), where a government building was attacked.

If your answer is (2), you’re a Leftist. If it was (1), you’re either a Christian or one who hasn’t been too conditioned and influenced by the evils of the world. The first (1) prioritizes God, the family, and human life. The second (2) prioritizes government.

This little test points to a profound truth. Most of what people disagree on relates to the “lens” through which they see the world. This lens holds a person’s basic pre-rational assumptions, consciously or subconsciously accepted, which colors their interpretation of reality and provides the foundation for their politics, ideology, and values.

Boiled down, there are really only two foundational lenses from which to choose, Christian and anti-Christian. I didn’t say ‘Christian and non-Christian’ or even ‘theist and atheist’ for a reason. There are some “religious” people who create for themselves a god of their own liking. They’re atheists without admitting it. There are also some self-proclaimed atheists who are moved by grace that act more Christian than many so-called Christians.

The Christian worldview accepts objective truth, sees reality as it is, and understands the affects of original sin on individuals and the world. The Christian attitude is to sacrifice one’s disordered desires for the greater good – all with the help of God’s grace.

The non-Christian worldview recognizes no natural order, and creates a morality and reality that places one’s disordered and selfish desires as top priority. It creates a (PC) language and narrative to match. And it sees government as the power that will give them what they want, unfortunately to their own destruction.

This illustrates the great spiritual war of which we are in the midst, and which seems to be picking up steam exponentially.