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When activism turns lethal: Political violence becoming morally acceptable to the Left?

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Something has shifted in American political culture, and we must not look away from it.

A recent survey from the Skeptic Research Center reveals that 49% of Gen Z liberals agree that “violence is often necessary to create social change.”

Read that again. Nearly half. This is not fringe thinking — this is the mainstream of an entire generation on the left.

And it explains what we’re now witnessing — a growing series of murders, death threats, doxxing, assaults, and other forms of political violence against conservative influencers, Christian schoolchildren, corporate executives, federal judges, and law enforcement officers.

These are not isolated incidents. They form a pattern. And the pattern raises questions a healthy republic should never have to ask: Has political violence become morally acceptable to a significant portion of the American Left? When does rhetoric turn lethal? And what does Scripture require of the Church in such a moment?

The evidence mounts

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Something has shifted in American political culture, and we must not look away from it.

A recent survey from the Skeptic Research Center reveals that 49% of Gen Z liberals agree that “violence is often necessary to create social change.”

Read that again. Nearly half. This is not fringe thinking — this is the mainstream of an entire generation on the left.

And it explains what we’re now witnessing — a growing series of murders, death threats, doxxing, assaults, and other forms of political violence against conservative influencers, Christian schoolchildren, corporate executives, federal judges, and law enforcement officers.

These are not isolated incidents. They form a pattern. And the pattern raises questions a healthy republic should never have to ask: Has political violence become morally acceptable to a significant portion of the American Left? When does rhetoric turn lethal? And what does Scripture require of the Church in such a moment?

The evidence mounts

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It certainly is an anti-Christian movement. I think we are doing what we can, calmly but firmly uphold the law.
 
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This is now a fact. The data shows that violence on the Left is rising.

Throughout history we have seen violence from the Left and the Right. But right now it is the Left and we can see this trend going way back. What we are seeing now is the extreme end result of a cultivated ideology over years.

It is true that fundementally this is a spiritual battle about what is good and how we should order society and the world. About human being the gods of their own world.
 
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