🧩 BND Motif Index · M999
Reclaiming faith
The left is urged to speak its faith again: the Jesus of the Gospels cared for the poor and the stranger, and the right doesn't own God.
📣 Exhortations🗂️ Faith and the sacred
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Faith as a prop Reclaiming faith answers Faith as a prop
⏱️ both first told the same day (2026-10-04) - 🧩 Politics as religion Reclaiming faith answers Politics as religion
⏱️ told here 78 days after its answer (2026-07-18 → 2026-10-04)
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-21 “Approximately 60% of Democrats claim to have some form of faith, with many being deeply committed Christians.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook - 2026-10-21 “Donald Trump's politics and rhetoric do not reflect the character of Jesus found in the gospels.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-13 “Democrats have been hesitant to express their faith because they have seen others use religion primarily as a tool to win voters.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook
M999 · first seen 2026-10-20 · what this is · how the index works