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[[link removed]] Jim WallisWhat has been happening since the outcome of the November presidential election
has been historic: continuous acts of sedition aimed at overturning the results
of an American election by the current president of the United States.

Our nation’s first president, George Washington, decided not to become a new
king, but voluntarily turned his office over to a new president. John Adams then
turned his office over to Thomas Jefferson after he lost an election, setting a
precedent that became a xxxxxx of American democracy. After becoming the most
“unprecedented” president in American history, Donald Trump is now trying to
destroy that fundamental practice by using the power of the presidency to deny
the results of an election he lost. That sedition must not be met with silence —
from political leaders or from faith leaders.

There is obviously a very dangerous political lens to these actions: The future
of democracy in America is at stake. But I would argue there is also a
theological lens — that the growing power of a distinctive American heresy is
also at play.

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