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# The Dead Consensus vs Ahmarism in Three Sentences - Commonplaces
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/jake-the-dead-consensus-v-ahmarism/
- Published: 2022-08-05T09:29:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T19:04:43.000Z
- Description: The Dead Consensus has no theory of power. The Ahmarists have no theory of martyrdom. A Christian political philosophy has to have both if it is going to be actually Christian.
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Jake Meador

[The Dead Consensus](https://mereorthodoxy.com/political-atheism/) has no theory of power.

[The Ahmarists](https://mereorthodoxy.com/orbanism-and-the-revolution/) have no theory of martyrdom.

A Christian political philosophy has to have both if it is going to be *actually* Christian.