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I clicked on this article (TGC) because I thought it would have ways for church members to muddle through policital differences (I will write more on that later). First, the article looks at the divide between the politicas of men and women. Second, the authors (a brother and sister) look at the emerging political differences not as a cause of division, nor an impediment to unity, but as the symptom of a deeper illness. 

The illness is aloneness. Research has shown us that loniless is at an all-time high. Loniless, like political division, is a by-product of aloneness.

Our world rewards and encourages aloneness. This is poignantly felt when men and women engage in alone-existence, apart from one another. A plunging interest in marriage, especially among younger women, would prove that out. When social media has taken over our sense of community, and those social media islands that we camp in are different, then we tend to be swayed in our thinking and to be polarized in our politics, beliefs, and goals. 

This is especially so between men and women. No longer do they seek a marriage which forces men and women to reconcile and form their thinking together, face-to-face, in real time and space. Instead, men and women are left to form thier preferences on separate social media enclaves. 

This causes the great political divide between men and women that we see today.

There is a solution...

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