Against Game of Thrones Christianity

Powerful elements on both the left and the right have begun to treat government power as a weapon to be wielded against their political foes. According to these factions, the stakes of our political debates are too existential to do otherwise: Like the famous maxim from Game of Thrones, it's a vision of politics as a war in which "you win or you die." This talk will argue that if we ever did have to choose between accepting persecution or carrying it out, the Christian answer isn't what these practitioners of "will-to-power politics" seem to think.