Dedicated Christ-follower and member of the Daily Wire’s staff of pundits, Andrew Klavan, issued a warning concerning public discourse, stating that it is now being heavily manipulated by the powers-that-be, especially individuals who are within left-leaning media institutions. He then went on to put out a challenge for Christians to look at modern day interpretations of the Holy Scriptures and to weigh them against those from the Scriptures themselves and in the sacred tradition of the Christian Church.
Innovation is not the friend of Christianity. The whole “progressive” movement is centered around making progress as human beings toward perfection. On paper this sounds great. Heck, even Christians strive toward perfection in emulation of Jesus Christ. This is called “sanctification.” However, as much as we try by the power of the Holy Spirit to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect, we know this is a state that is impossible to reach this side of heaven.
For the progressive, they firmly believe that humanity can attain perfection without God. Thus, just like those at Babel thousands of years ago, they attempt in their own power and without their Creator to reach heaven, a goal that will fail miserably and cause only suffering and pain.
“I don’t think that we’re enemies in the U.S., I think most of us are friends,” the 70-year-old author and host of The Andrew Klavan Show said during a talk with The Christian Post.
“I think what the media has done is purposely set us against one another because when we’re fighting with one another, we’re not fighting with them. I think a lot of us could get together, middle-right, middle-left, all of the sort of in-between, and be a new majority. That’s what I want to see, the majority of Americans who are happy to debate, happy to say I’m wrong, and happy to compromise, because it’s the media working for the left that has made it impossible to do that. They call you a name when you disagree, they make you they demonize you if you disagree, and that made people afraid to speak,” he added in the interview.
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Klavan, who is an international bestseller of both fiction and non-fiction works, first came to Christianity at 49-years-old. As the interview with CP continued, the podcast host and political commentator placed emphasis on the importance of biblical literacy, along with critically thinking and spiritually reflecting on the wisdom inherited by us in the West, especially in this cultural landscape that seems to have run headlong off a cliff into a deep pool of insanity.
As he told CP, tradition is a repository of wisdom that has stood firm and unwavering for thousands upon thousands of years.
“There have been 2,000 years of good, intelligent, brilliant writing about the Bible, people reading it, the smartest people in the world. The smartest people in the West have always believed in the Bible, and they have written about it, and they’ve philosophized about it and they’ve discussed it,” he remarked.
“We don’t have to depend on the people who are with us now. We can look at the tradition. Tradition is important. It’s the wisdom of the past carried over. We can look at the wisdom of the past, compare it to the guys talking in the present, and say, ‘Well, wait a minute. Something’s not working here,’ and see which one makes sense. We shouldn’t be afraid of the people talking now. We’ve got more than an army of wisdom behind us in the past, and we can bring it to bear,” he said.
Klavan spoke to CP at the premiere of The Daily Wire’s new theatrical release, “Am I Racist?” which stars Matt Walsh and satirizes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Projects like “Am I Racist?,” Klavan said, play a crucial role in dismantling the barriers that have been built by the media. “One of the reasons a movie like this is so important is because when somebody finally says the truth, then everybody can say so,” he said.
Jeremy Boreing, CEO of The Daily Wire, echoed Klavan’s sentiment, stressing that “our hope has to be in God.” “We’re not really promised that things are going to get better in this world, but we can look back at history and see that there have been incredibly dark moments before, and the country has endured,” he said. Boreing drew parallels to some of the darkest chapters in Western civilization, from World War I to World War II, moments when it seemed civilization might never recover.
“I’m sure that if we were in the middle of the First World War in the teens, we would think, this is it. It’s over. Western civilization can’t possibly recover from this. It did. And I’m sure that if we had been here in the ’40s during the Second War, we would have thought something similar. And yet, here we are,” he explained.
Boreing then went on to offer a little encouragement by stating that while the radical left has managed to sort of rise to power in just about every major institution in society, it’s a very fragile dominance.