1 Corinthians 13:7 - "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

When Christians roamed the lands of the West, it used to be believed that honourable people should, as a point of principle. always try as hard as possible to assume that somebody else meant something in the very best possible sense. Honourable people always believed the best of their opponents, and to not to do so was to behave shamefully.

But in 2020 we have "cancel culture". Everything you've ever said gets parsed in the most hostile possible fashion, in a power play aimed at silencing all political opposition. And all of life becomes politicised. Anything, anywhere, is fair game in the attempt to cancel you. The smallest wrong action marks you out as "the enemy within", ready to be punished and un-personned. Sad.

Someone explain to me again how we lose nothing of any value when we jettison Christianity as having anything to say to the public square, and make it so that there's nothing beyond state power, in a winner-takes-all scramble?