Because it has chosen narcissism as its foundation for faith, the Democratic Party has cast out whatever Christian elements it may have once had.
On Friday, former President Donald Trump spoke at the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention, in which he said, “How any Christian can vote for a Democrat, Christian or person of faith, how you can vote for a Democrat is crazy.”
Given the values and beliefs held dearest by the Democratic Party, it is hard not to agree. Radicals have gradually pushed it further left, which has also been shifting the goalposts of society in a more secular direction ever since the Progressive Era of the late 19th century.
The Democratic Party has fully embraced feminism and its natural descendent, the LGBT movement. Both have propagated the idea that men and women are indistinguishable. This justifies the party’s attempts to mix and match the roles of the two sexes in society. They are opposed to the Christian idea that man and woman were made distinct from yet complementary to one another.
By destroying marriage and the distinctions of the sexes, the party helped craft sexual activity into a vital expression of choice and liberation. These are the party values over the Christian practices of restraint and modesty. It has removed the incentives to abstain from sex and promoted perverse sexual behavior. In doing so, it has helped to normalize sexual depravity.
The idol of abortion also affirms the desire of the Democratic Party to exempt society from taking responsibility for its actions. By dehumanizing children as “parasites” and framing abortion as a right, the party encourages people to blame others for their decisions to have sex. This is despite Christians asserting that all life is sacred and formed by God upon conception.
Intersectionality has had a similar effect. The party has adopted a caste system based on what someone is or claims to be rather than who someone is or what they have done. This places those deemed “victims” over those deemed “oppressors,” while Christians view all humans as made with equal value by God.
All of this derives from one source: pride. The Democratic Party lives and breathes on its prioritization of the self. Everything it pedals is based on the idea that man is in control of his own destiny and should be allowed to pursue whatever makes him happy. Anything standing in the way of that is evil. One could say that the Christian, who instead values humility, is a threat to his existence.
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It is no coincidence, then, that there is a surging reverence for Satan from within the party. The devil represents its radical idealism according to the great thinkers of leftism, such as Mikhail Bakunin, who called him “the eternal rebel, the first freethinker, and the emancipator of worlds.” The past year alone has seen Democratic officials honor the Satanic Temple and erect statues in Lucifer’s honor in state capitals.
It is clear the Democratic Party has placed its faith in itself over faith in God. It sees Christians as the enemies of all it holds dear. There is no reason to believe anyone can be both a faithful Christian and a devoted Democrat because no one can simultaneously seek to praise the self and God.
Parker Miller is a 2024 Washington Examiner winter fellow.