I'll give them this - the progressive political activists at the Holy Post Podcast at least addressed the objection. I may be confused and frustrated with the cowardly and dishonest pass they gave themselves, but at least they acknowledged the criticism.
On a recent episode, co-host Phil Vischer posed the critique "we hear all the time" to his co-host Skye Jethani and guest pastor Mike Erre:
Because you didn't say anything about Biden's use of policies that we might not have found Christian, do you lose the right to say anything about Trump?
Here's how the crew of progressive Christians managed to excuse themselves from any deserved conviction:
This is blatantly and demonstrably false. To prove as much, we need only quote their fellow progressive Christian activists at Sojourners:
'I'm a practicing Catholic. I believe faith is a gift. And the first obligation we all have is, "Love your God," the second one is, "Love your neighbor as yourself,'" Biden says of his faith on his campaign website. The president-elect's religion and theology had been a central part of his pitch to "restore the soul of America,' which has been reflected in his schedule, policy, and statements from the campaign trail.
The Biden campaign has emphasized where his policy proposals are influenced by his faith. Its website connects Biden's Catholicism with policy proposals like raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, saying that Biden would 'build an economy where everyone comes along and we protect the "least of these.'"
Biden also cited Pope Francis' Laudato Si' encyclical in addressing the climate crisis and said he would ensure that 'communities harmed by climate change and pollution, particularly communities of color and low-income communities, are the first to benefit from [Biden's] clean economy revolution.' …
While Biden's faith-driven policy is evident, the president-elect has been clear that his commitment to the faith isn't to proselytize. Biden says his faith is cultural, theological, and personal.
'I'm as much a cultural Catholic as I am a theological Catholic,' Biden wrote in his book Promises to Keep: On Life in Politics. 'My idea of self, of family, of community, of the wider world comes straight from my religion.'
So, if as the Holy Post guys say, it's the "superintending of all this (policy) under the banner of Christian that's the issue," it sure seems like they should have been vocal about a Biden administration that was clearly superintending its policy under the banner of Christian, no?
And if, as the Holy Post guys say, it's the "employment of explicitly Christian language" that is a bridge too far for them, it seems this would have concerned them:
From The Hill:
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made an appeal to Christian voters on Thursday, encouraging them to wear masks to 'love our neighbors as ourselves.'
Biden wrote an op-ed in the Christian Post that connects the coronavirus pandemic to the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible, in which Jesus says one of the most important commandments is to "‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
And if, as the Holy Post guys say, it's taking "a policy that is anti-Christian, and pushing it with God's authority," that causes them consternation, seemingly they would have said something about this:
But they didn't say anything about any of that. Why they are unwilling to be honest about it, why they are eager to misdirect, mislead, and bear false testimony in a futile effort to defend their inconsistency is something only they can answer.
But what is the honest answer that these three men are avoiding? Why did they remain startlingly silent as the Biden administration couched unholy and, in some cases, unspeakably monstrous policy in Christian language?
A commenter hit the nail on the head:
Audience capture. That's what is more important than prophetic, faithful Christian witness on the Holy Post. That's what is so disappointing about what I would otherwise be inclined to think are fair and legitimate critiques of Donald Trump and his overwhelming support among Christian voters. Those critiques ring hollow because they emerge from the lips of men unfaithful to biblical witness whenever it's damaging to their bottom line.
The love of money proves again to be the root of all kinds of evil - even among those boasting of their "holiness."
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