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The declaration is important for a couple a reasons, and not because it is going to influence the secularists. It is important for the signers, and it helps other believers who may be weak in the knees. So I don't condemn the statement. But there is this underlying problem of trying to square the circle, so to speak, or to stretch for another metaphor, to have our cake and eat it to. It's not that I am against Christian people being engaged in politics. What I am concerned about is that the declaration, as it stands, is intellectually incoherent. It tries to defend itself by appealing to two competing sources of authority: a) the Gospel and b) the Enlightenment, as Ryan as pointed out.