I find Timothy Snyder so very clear about the issues facing us as a constitutional democracy. This post seemed so good I thought I’d do the unusual and republish it, with his permission of course. It is not just about the election, but about two things we talk about all the time: democracy, or honest conversation, and poverty. There is good reason why Christianity needs to be unshackled from it’s anti-rational, purely revelatory basis to which it has long been held and be subject to argument from all sides, and this article makes one case.