Posted on 08/17/2005 5:48:10 AM PDT by dukeman
It is not often that I commend the writings of a liberation theologian. And I'm not about to do so now, at least not in totality. But Native American liberationist Vive Deloria's thirtieth anniversary edition of God Is Red: A Native View of Religion has some important insights about the state of mainline Protestantism.
Deloria, in the midst of the typical revisionist proposals for Christian theology, offers the idea that Hugh Hefner should be pronounced "Protestant saint of the century." This is because, he suggests, of the ways in which the mainline bureaucracies have embraced "almost every kind of sexual activity as permissible 'if it is done with love.'"
On another note, Deloria takes on the political lobbying wings of the liberal Protestant denominations in this way: "They feel the only task remaining in the field of religion is to find a way to make their church relevant to the outside world. Most of them would take the Second Coming of Jesus as a personal affront indicating that God has lost confidence in their ability to solve problems."
"Most of them would take the Second Coming of Jesus as a personal affront indicating that God has lost confidence in their ability to solve problems."
Wrong. God the Son is sent down because we humans continue to give God the Father the middle finger.
He, Larry Flynt and a gaggle of other smut peddlers have been raking in the dough like a homeowner would rake leaves. They, of course like most pornographers, look upon the rest of us as saps.
He has been rolling in so much sin that he'll owe his Maker and Judge quite an accounting before he joins the others who have ruined whatever semblence of moral fiber existed.
This is hugh. Could be series.
Hugh Hefner's bedtime prayer: "%^$^#$@ it! Why isn't the *&*^%$!!!! Viagra working any more?
The latest new sexual orientation (I am not joking) is Polyamorous. Look that one up online - it basically means anything goes, anywhere, with anyone (or more), anytime as long as it is a loving relationship.
p.s. You seem to be the only replier who understood this article.
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