Muskegon Community College in Michigan recently hosted a professor — a left-leaning Christian ethicist — who calls in his new book for “defending democracy from its Christian enemies.”
In the book, David Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, argues Christians have started taking anti-democratic positions on political matters in the era of former President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election.
Gushee “analyzes how Christians have discarded their commitment to democracy and bought into authoritarianism,” according to an online description of the book, “Defending Democracy From Its Christian Enemies.”
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In an email interview with The College Fix, the Georgia-based educator described his talk at the community college as “well-received” and said the audience was “quite respectful.”
In an interview with Insider, Gushee claimed democracy is “losing support” in the U.S., asserting Christians are abandoning the free system of government “entirely,” “motivated by what they would consider to be Christian motivations.”
”My dissertation was on the Nazi era and the Holocaust,” he said. “I’m a strong believer in democracy, and I also have a lot of knowledge about what happens when democracy is abandoned, and it’s not good, so
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