It's not that the phrases... - The gospel is neither right nor left - Prophetic, not partisan - Not a red elephant or a blue donkey, but a slain lamb - Truth, not tribe... ... are necessarily wrong (I've used them!). It's that as American politics have changed, these phrases have become so misleading as to be very unhelpful because they obscure the clear moral asymmetry between the (current) policies of the parties. Once upon a time, the two parties basically agreed upon the destination, but disagreed on how to get there. But as the secular progressive social justice movement hijacked the Left, the policies of the two parties are aiming for fundamentally different and diametrically opposed moral visions. As Jon Tyson has pointed out, secularism attempts a "reverse exorcism" –– it goes throughout society and anywhere it finds God it cries out, "COME OUT, IN HUMANITY'S NAME!" Progressivism is an attempt to "progress past" much of historic Christian morality, which it casts as outdated, repressive, harmful, and to be eradicated. Our axioms, rhetorical strategy, and phraseology have to find a way to reflect that change.
