Perfectly stated!
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Well...a lot of my fellow Christians didn’t want to pull the lever for Romney.
BUMP!
I still say we lost a lot the day Jerry Falwell died.
I agree with the writer’s thesis regarding many Christians buying into the “you can’t legislate morality”, and I’ve also heard many Christians say that getting involved in politics is unGodly and unChristian, that the world is gonna do what the world is gonna do, that “it’s all gonna burn anyway”’ and now, I am also hearing “well, God is working all,of this out according to His will, He is in control” (sort of a Calvinistic fatalism).
The article assumes that you are dealing with a rational being and that your arguments will sway Liberals/Progressives/Atheists. It has been shown many times that Liberals/Progressives/Atheists are anything but rational.
Discussing anything with Liberals/Progressives/Atheists is like trying to put a cloud in a box.
I would only add that many, many pastors in churches across America have been almost shaming their congregations into silence.
Following the success of the "Moral Majority" as a cultural and political force, and particularly after the AIDS epidemic, church leaders have chided congregations into silence by agreeing with the Left that all public opposition was hateful and that we should show compassion and love.
I recall hearing over and over how people with AIDS were the modern era lepers ( a completely false analogy). I recall hearing how we should not focus on one sin (homosexuality). I recall hearing how unruly, condemning and lacking in compassion Christians had become in their war against the homosexual tide.
And now, as a result, for the most part the church is mute and homosexual "marriage" is legal in nearly all fifty states. Christians were told to basically just disengage politically and culturally and work to show compassion instead of shining the light on sin. As a result, many people obeyed and pulled up tent stakes and let the darkness begin to overwhelm.
And here we are today. The church is silent, cowering in the corner, fearful of being labeled as un-compassionate, non-Christlike, and judgmental, and millions upon millions of souls will now face eternity apart from their Creator as a result.
Yes well said....but far too many social conservatives have themselves to blame for others being “turned off”....
Sometimes we cannot take yes for an answer.........
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You can’t have a debate with a leftist on campus. All they know are shallow memes and fabricated narratives.
They have to silence you.
Not all have! Not my Church, not my Pastor and Not Pastor Cruz!
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If the current Republicans fail, I’m done. I’ll focus my time and energy on what comes later.
This subject makes me so angry, I can’t see straight. I tried for YEARS to help instill values in public school children and can count on the fingers of ONE hand the number of adults who tried to give me support. I simply don’t want to hear it anymore from ANYONE. Administrators constantly accused me of putting “politics” in the classroom. People are getting exactly what they deserve for failure to stand up and defend those trying to do what is right.
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IF ‘Paul’ wrote that Christians should lead lives, and be the evidence of things, to make the rest of the world envious to poseess what they see in Christians ....
How does a Christian accomplish that, when they keep their mouth shut?
Was it not Christians that talked back against slavery?
was it not Christians that talked back about Communism, causing so many to find a truth hidden, and then the strength to get out of a devilish system?
We have come to live in a time where to say anything that IS wrong, is to say something heretical.
We have come to a time in America, where one does not wish to lose what they have, what they do, or what defines them, in the face of: “Yeah? You and what army?”
From what I remember, Christianity ain’t about what you got in your pocket, or over your head, or what you are just about to shove in your mouth. I believe that it is written that if you do what you are supposed to do, as it has already been defined in the book, those things will be covered. It might not be a Maserati, a four bedroom home, or a filet mignon on your plate with the trimmings, or that omega on your wrist, but you will be taken care of, in faith. Elijah had crows bring him food. Remember that.
As long as you keep your mouth shut about what you believe, you can’t get anyone to come closer to get the rest of the story.
By and large, colleges formed by Christian organizations of various stripes have gone at best to the liberal side of their religion, or more commonly, entirely abandoned any Christian underpinnings. Until the university system collapses due to financial failure or outside competition through remote, on-line learning, the secular humanist grip on the ivory tower will remain.
Why is this important? In the 1980s and 1990s, the Christian Right, led by Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, et. al., won significant victories electorally. However, none of the victories were long lived because of the electoral cycle replacing conservatives with liberals (e.g. the 2006 and 2008 elections, the most recent liberal high tide) and the death or retirement of the principal leaders. Of the men listed above, only Robertson tried to groom an heir (Ralph Reed), but he didn't pan out.
When both parties are opposed to your belief’s, what do you do?
That’s why the Left had a white-hot seething hatred for Jerry Falwell and his allies. For a brief moment in history he convinced America that we CAN and we SHOULD legislate morality.