Topics
The false teachings Doxa looks for in what people teach, by category and topic, each stated as those who hold it would put it. Each reviewed one counts toward the Doxa Score.
Doctrine and the Church
What Christians teach about God, Scripture, sin, and salvation, and the movements inside the church that shape or distort that teaching. Cultural and political ideologies belong in their subject categories, or in Culture, Truth, and the Self, even when they are preached from a pulpit.
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Culture, Truth, and the Self
How the culture defines truth, morality, love, identity, justice, and suffering. Concrete applications belong in their subject category, such as systemic racism in Race and Ethnicity.
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Gender, Sexuality, and Family
Teaching about manhood and womanhood, sexual ethics, marriage, and the home.
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Life and Bioethics
When human life begins and ends, what it is worth, and what medicine and technology may do with it. Vaccines and medical authority belong in Science, Medicine, and Creation, and gender transition in Gender, Sexuality, and Family.
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Race and Ethnicity
What racism is, what opposing it requires, and what is owed for historical racial injustice.
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Government and Law
Government's authority and role, faith in public life, voting and political engagement, the nation, the use of force, and immigration.
Voting and political engagement
How Christians should vote and take part in politics: whether supporting a flawed candidate is complicity in his sins or a prudential choice between imperfect options, whether Christians must publicly denounce the candidates they vote for, and how closely the church should align with a party or voting bloc.
- Voting as complicityA Christian who votes for a morally flawed candidate shares in his sins and is aligned with him unless he publicly denounces what he dislikes about that candidate.Taught in 1
- Faith belongs at the margins of societyReligion functions best from the margins of society, so Christians should not seek political power or try to shape law and public life by majority rule.Taught in 1
Economics and Wealth
Markets, wealth, poverty, and equity.
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Science, Medicine, and Creation
The environment, medicine, and origins.
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History and Other Religions
The church's and the nation's past and how it is judged today, and Christianity's relation to other religions.
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