Yet spiritual discernment differs from the kind of discernment that the jeweler possesses and political analysts like Buckley claim. The addition of the word “spiritual” is not merely a meaningless appendage or an adjective designed to distinguish the kind of discernment that is done by Christians from other kinds of discernment or the discernment of unbelievers—as if it meant no more than the word “Christian” now means. While the word “spiritual” certainly distinguishes the