Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/06/2011 7:43:40 AM PST by Olympiad Fisherman
Polls taken in America show that as many as 70 percent identify themselves with Christianity. Merely belonging to a church or having had some kind of vague salvation experience doesn’t mean someone is obeying Christ, and following him. It also doesn’t mean they are destined to residency in the Kingdom of Heaven, and I would contend that those who denigrate the culture of the Church with pop culture probably wouldn’t want to live in the Kingdom of Heaven. Christianity is to them a matter of blending and a license for immorality, divorce, abortion, pornography, paganism, political correctness, tolerance and fitting into the world. It is very difficult to see the evil in the world while trying so very hard to belong to it.
I guess to simplify what I meant in my first response I will say that I consider Christians to be those who are making every attempt to follow Jesus Christ in their personal and public lives. That requires accepting basic truths scripture gives us about who and what we should be and who and what we shouldn’t be. Politics doesn’t have to be any part of that, but if so, then the politics have to agree with the basic principles God has given us through scripture. I’m not looking to create a dominion for God through conservative politics, nor do I want to live in a godless dominion created by liberals.
If I’m confusing the issue, I apologize. I’ve got the hired help out on a project that needs my attention, and my scatterbrain is distracted.
You have summed up many things quite well in spite of being on the run!
Thanks!
That is good blog on the National Review which I enjoy looking at from time to time. I trust you would like to take a look at the articles on www.rmarkmusser.com (yours truly) - discussing eco-fascism - not as a metaphor, but historically.
Thanks for the tip. I have heard of it, but perhaps I will need to take a look at it.
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