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Our Nation's Worst Demons Are Ascending
Jim Wallis

In his first Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln
appealed to "the better angels of our nature." That is what
our political and religious leaders should always do -- appeal
to our best angels. But at the other end of the moral spectrum,
political and even religious leaders now often appeal to our
worst demons: fear, anger, resentment, greed, prejudice,
division, and hatred. And the danger we are discovering is that
our demons in America have been lying just below the surface and
have been aggressively brought forth in the past few years. We
see white supremacists marching openly with torches aloft in
Charlottesville and elsewhere, and a growing white nationalism
feels emboldened by the White House. We see children in cages and
families torn apart at the southern border because
of policies made in the same building where they call
immigrants "invaders." We now see the worst elements of
America's history rekindled by some who see these elements as
their plan for this nation's future, often with the language of
Christianity painfully deployed in defense of that.

The crank of the Jack-in-the-box has been turned, and Jack's
not going back into the box.

So mere political activism (as important as that is) won't
defeat our demons alone. The moral, religious, and political
battles between our angels and our demons have become the
"spiritual warfare" of our time, using the language of the
Apostle Paul.

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