The pseudo‑intellectual religious left has built a cottage industry out of sanctified nonsense. They deliver sentimental stories about YouTube atheists or “toxic masculinity” while presenting themselves as the gatekeepers of spiritual depth. The gospel is reduced to a garnish on a side dish.
What they—think David French, Russell Moore, Mike Cosper, Jim Wallis, and the rest of the Evangelical pseudo-intellectuals—offer parades itself as Christianity, yet the substance is nothing more than sophistry wearing a clerical collar.
Their game is subtle demolition. They stroke the egos of secular leftist elites while constantly punching right, conservatives, for being too confident, too bold, too unwilling to practice cunning and play the nuance game. All the while, they assure the crowd that their weaponized empathy is “Christlike humility.”
Whether it be Russell Moore weeping about how mothers who murder their children are “victimized” by the system or David French praising the “civility” of BLM while calling abortion abolitionists “toxic,” the act is always the same—disguise surrender as virtue.