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Pastor Lucas Miles, host of Church and State with Lucas Miles and author of "The Christian Left", discusses the Left’s hijacking of Christianity on Battle Belongs with Coleton Furlow.

Miles’ book "The Christian Left" examines the Left’s perversion of the Gospel to fit their Marxist agenda.

“The clash between Left and Right is a clash of religion,” explained Miles. “Conservatism has an ideological relationship with biblical values. It really only works in the confines of true biblical values. On the Left, it’s also a religious system. It’s really a Marxist cult, is what it is.”

The Left first and foremost perverts the Gospel with its reduction of Christ to merely a historical figure. They reject his divinity and reduce him to man who was either just a teacher or a social justice warrior or even a scam artist in order to reduce his message. In doing so, they remove objective truth from Jesus' preaching and replace it with socialist ideology. In short, the Left hijacks and perverts Christianity to lead Christians astray and to justify their own twisted positions.

Miles delves more into the results of the Left's perversion of Christ, including liberation theology, in his new book "Woke Jesus".

Watch Miles' and Furlow's full conversation on CPAC+ and follow @CPAC or @coletonfurlow on social media for more.

As the Left shifts further and further Left, they are disowning anyone who does not fall in line on every issue, especially pro-life Democrats. Terrisa Bukovinac, anti-abortion activist and 2024 Democratic Presidential Candidate, is one of those Democrats. She explains her position and experience as a pro-life Democrat on this episode of Battle Belongs.

Bukovinac was moved to join the pro-life movement after learning about the secular pro-life movement and the horrific process of abortions, including the dismembering of the baby. She was motivated to become active in the movement in the 2016 election when she realized that President Trump’s pro-life message wasn’t able to reach pro-life groups on the Left. After being fed up with not finding representation for herself and other pro-life Democrats, she decided to be that representation herself, and she founded Pro-Life San Francisco. That same lack of representation prompted her to run as a Democrat candidate for president in 2024.

Bukovinac’s work in the pro-life movement includes recovering the bodies of aborted children, raising awareness of the horrors and violence of abortion, and debating those willing to on this important issue. She has met fierce resistance from the Left, however, with Democrat leaders and elected officials unwilling to have conversations about abortion and pro-abortion groups launching campaigns to silence pro-life Democrats like Bukovinac.

“The Democratic establishment will do anything, in my opinion, to silence pro-life Democrats. That’s a big problem for them, and you can see they primary any candidates aggressively who espouse any kind of concern about even late term abortion,” observed Bukovinac.

She is striving to change the Democrat Party with her campaign to make the party more open and welcoming to pro-life Democrats.

“We are Democrats. We do not agree with Republican policies but we will not be complicit in child killing. That is the message. That is what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to raise up these pro-life Democrats to give them the courage to say who are they, to stop being silenced, to stop being afraid,” explained Bukovinac.

Watch the full episode on CPAC+ and follow @CPAC or @coletonfurlow on social media for more.

In episode 2 of the Battle Belongs podcast, Coleton Furlow discusses the continued rise of antisemitism on college campuses as well as Biden turning his back on Israel for their plan to strike Hamas. Also, a video goes viral of a newborn baby given to two men who rented a woman's womb through surrogacy and stripped a baby from it's right to have a mother. All of this while America's elites go to the worst costume party ever... the Met Gala.

CPAC Now is welcoming a new show, Battle Belongs with Coleton Furlow, to our weekly lineup of in-depth social and political commentary.  

With a title inspired by a Christian artist Phil Wickham song, the show takes on politics and current events in light of God’s guidance in our fight. The show is a rallying point for young conservatives to feel empowered and strengthened in their beliefs with a sense of community. Battle Belongs airs every Friday and will feature guests from both the political and faith communities.  

On this inaugural episode of Battle Belongs, Furlow shares the origin story of how he got involved in politics. Growing up in a conservative area in Maryland, Furlow never felt compelled to be outspoken about politics until he encountered hostility from radical Leftists in college.  

One professor in particular demeaned conservative students and threatened them with failing grades, prompting Furlow to stand up for his principles. This launched him into the world of politics, and he began looking for conservative groups in the area to get involved in.  

Furlow’s experience in college is, sadly, similar to the experiences of many young conservatives all over the country. Battle Belongs, in part, seeks to inspire young conservatives who are facing hostility because of their beliefs.  

“It only takes one person to stand up against the current and stick up for what you believe in and protect other students from being indoctrinated,” said Furlow.
Find this episode and stay tuned for more Battle Belongs episodes on social media @CPAC and @coletonfurlow and online at ⁠CPAC.org⁠.