THE RISE OF MESSIANIC POLITICS

  Joseph Brean explored in Saturday’s National Post the role of religion in our current political moment. That was prompted in part by Elizabeth May’s confession in a political interview that Jesus Christ is her “personal hero,” an admission for which she immediately added “sorry.” She had answered too “quickly and honestly.”

My colleague Matt Gurney wrote about the political problems with the Green party’s understanding of tolerance, which tolerates every green view except the environmentalism motivated by explicit Christian faith.

I wrote elsewhere about the theological problems with the May interview.

But there is another important dimension to May’s discussion of her faith and her politics. It’s an example of the rise of messianic politics on the left. The world needs saving, but Jesus won’t do it. Progressive politics will.