Faith, Freedom, and the Fault Lines of Love, A Dialogue by Renaldo McKenzie with Bryce Eddy Part 1

In this thought-provoking episode, Renaldo McKenzie and co-host Ricardo McKenzie sit down with Bryce Eddy of Turning Point USA and The Bryce Eddy Show for an open conversation on faith, unity, and the fractured moral landscape of modern America.From the meaning of biblical love to the paradoxes of liberty and inclusion, this dialogue challenges easy answers and exposes deeper divides. Can true love heal a polarized nation — or has faith itself become a new frontier of division?🎙️ Listen on The Neoliberal Round Podcast — where dialogue replaces dogma and conversation sparks change.Op-Ed: “When Love Becomes a Border: Lessons from My Conversation with Bryce Eddy”By Renaldo C. McKenzie | The Neoliberal PostAfter sitting with Bryce Eddy, I realized that love, liberty, and faith — three words that should bind us — can also become battlegrounds.1. Love that Costs vs. Love that ConfinesTrue love is sacrificial, not selective. It builds bridges even when it bleeds. The love of Christ was constructive — it healed lepers and listened to sinners — but the love often preached by the new right is conditional, tied to ideological conformity. Their love welcomes you only if you look, think, or pray the same.2. Jesus the DisruptorBryce spoke of all-inclusivity, but his inclusivity lacked diversity. Jesus did not reinforce religious order — he upended it. His ministry broke barriers between Jew and Gentile, male and female, slave and free. When inclusion becomes uniformity, it ceases to be divine and becomes doctrinal control.3. Liberty RewrittenTheir liberty and individualism are not what the Enlightenment nor the Gospel envisioned. Instead, they reflect an authoritarian individualism — a “freedom” that punishes dissent. Theirs is liberty with a leash: patriotic, pious, and policed. It’s a corruption of both Christian and liberal ideals.4. Ethnocentrism Cloaked as Evangelism Bryce’s worldview risks conflating faith with culture — a form of Orientalism and Occidentalism that paints “the Christian West” as morally superior. Yet, it is no more “our principle to kill” than it is Islam’s or anyone else’s. Violence is not religious — it is human. To assume otherwise is to weaponize culture itself. In the end, I learned that love without diversity becomes ideology, and liberty without empathy becomes tyranny. The work ahead isn’t to silence voices like Bryce’s — it’s to invite them into a broader, braver table where faith is not a fence but a fire — lighting the way for all.

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