There are some who believe that our political diseases can be healed through bringing them into contact with other, more exotic diseases from other points on the political spectrum. They think that the godless left can somehow be improved if they somehow could get infected by the Christless right. Just get the leper to come and place his hand on the cancerous lesion. Maybe the cure for cancer lies in the pus from some other disease.
But then there are the “gospel only” types who have decided, in a world riddled with diseases, to protect the purity of their medicinal gospel by locking it up in a theological cabinet. The cry goes up, “Protect our medicine from all the sick people! They might use it!” You never want your pure medicine to get cooties.
So the political half of this post and the gospel portion of it actually belong together because, as I am fond of saying, dualism is bad juju. Let the reader understand.
