Christian values#Use in global politics

Contemporary Christian values are based on the teachings of Jesus in the Bible, including love, compassion, integrity, and justice. They guide how Christians live their lives and interact with others.

Some core Christian values include:

• Love as the central ethical command{{Cite web |last=Silverman |first=Eric |date=June 6, 2016 |title=The Benefits of Love. |url=https://cct.biola.edu/love-many-splendored-thing-or-existential-threat/ |access-date=January 25, 2025 |website=Biola University Center for Christian Thought}}{{Cite web |last=The Holy See |date=January 25, 2025 |title=The law of divine love is the standard for all human actions. |url=https://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_20010116_thomas-aquinas_en.html |access-date=January 25, 2025 |website=The Vatican}}
• Compassion: A core value of Christianity{{Cite web |last=Glanzer |first=Perry L. |date=June 13, 2022 |title=Is Empathy a Christian Virtue? Comparing Empathy to Christian Compassion |url=https://christianscholars.com/is-empathy-a-christian-virtue-comparing-empathy-to-christian-compassion-2/ |access-date=January 25, 2025 |website=Christian Scholar's Review.}}
• Humility: A core value of Christianity{{Cite web |last=Dunnington |first=Kent |date=April 18, 2019 |title=An Introduction to Humility. |url=https://cct.biola.edu/introduction-to-humility/ |access-date=January 25, 2025 |website=Center for Christian Thought, Biola University.}}
• Integrity: A core value of Christianity{{Cite journal |last=Fox |first=Keith R. |date=September 2023 |title=Integrity in scientific research: A Christian perspective. |url=https://www.cambridgepapers.org/integrity-in-scientific-research-a-christian-perspective/ |journal=Cambridge Papers |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=5 |via=Cambridge Papers Ltd}}
• Justice: A core value of Christianity{{Cite journal |last1=Todd |first1=Nathan R. |last2=Rufa |first2=Anne K. |date=2013 |title=Social Justice and Religious Participation: A Qualitative Investigation of Christian Perspectives. |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1356643379 |journal=American Journal of Community Psychology |volume=51 |issue=3–4 |pages=315 |doi=10.1007/s10464-012-9552-4 |pmid=22949013 |id={{ProQuest|1356643379}}|url-access=subscription }}

Some of the beliefs of modern Christianity include:{{Cite web |date=January 25, 2025 |title=What it Means to be a Modern and Progressive Christian |url=https://www.christianeducation.com/blog/what-it-means-to-be-a-modern-and-progressive-christian/ |access-date=January 25, 2025 |website=Christian Education}}

• Welcoming all to be involved regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, tradition, etc.;
• Recognizing that others follow their own paths to God;
• Striving to protect and restore the integrity of the Earth;
• Aiming for peace and justice among all people;
• Affirming that the teachings of Jesus offer one of many ways to experience the sacredness of life.

{{see also|Conservatism in the United States|Conservatism in Australia|Conservatism in the United Kingdom}}

In the 21st-century United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and other countries, Christian values and family values are often cited by the Christian right and conservative political parties in describing their respective political stances:

Christian right and conservative parties interpretations of Christian values may include:

• Censorship of sexual content, especially in films and on television.Gregory D. Black, Hollywood Censored, p. 39. "Daniel Lord drafted a Hollywood censorship code. What emerged was a fascinating combination of conservative politics, Catholic theology, and pop psychology.", Cambridge University Press, 1994, {{ISBN|978-0521452991}}.
• Sexual abstinence outside marriage and abstinence-only sex education.[http://www.worldcongress.nl/en/wcf-ii-geneva-declaration/ "Geneva Declaration"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429125215/http://www.worldcongress.nl/en/wcf-ii-geneva-declaration/ |date=2009-04-29 }}. "Marriage between a man and a woman forms the sole moral context for natural sexual union. Whether through pornography, promiscuity, incest or homosexuality, deviations from these sexual norms cannot truly satisfy the human spirits".
• The promotion of intelligent design to be taught in public schools and colleges as an alternative to evolution.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110425174545/http://connection.ebscohost.com/science/intelligent-design/intelligent-design-movements-us "Christianity, Intelligent Design, Evolutionary Theory Movements in the U.S. and the Separation of Church and State"]. "Political commentators have noted the rise of the religious right during the presidency of George W. Bush. Though Christianity and politics have often been intertwined in American culture, the Bush administration funded faith-based initiatives more profoundly than any previous president. Moreover, President Bush remarked that he supported the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolutionary theory in public schools".
• The desirability of laws against same-sex marriage.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
• Support for laws against the acceptance of homosexuality into mainstream society.[https://carm.org/write-about-homosexuality "Why write about homosexuality?"]. "The Bible clearly condemns homosexuality as a sin and Christians who seriously follow God's Word must also condemn it as sin".
• The desirability of organized school prayer in public schools.{{cite web|title=Prayer InPublic School – A Brief History|url=http://www.allabouthistory.org/prayer-in-public-school.htm|publisher=AllAboutHistory.org|accessdate=23 July 2012}}
• Condemnation of transgender people, and support for erasing their rights and existence in law.
• Redefining empathy for others as a sin.{{Cite news |last=Romano |first=Aja |date=May 22, 2025 |title=Christian nationalists decided empathy is a sin. Now it's gone mainstream. |work=Vox |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/413530/what-does-empathy-is-a-sin-mean-christian-extremism |access-date=June 7, 2025}}

• Biblical law in Christianity
• Christian ethics
• Family values
• {{annotated link|Fruit of the spirit}}
• Jesusism
• Judeo-Christian values
• Red-Letter Christians
• Morality and religion

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