I think when I was his age, I might have agreed - but I would NEVER have worn my hair like that...
Posted on 06/27/2009 9:28:11 AM PDT by Amerisrael
Highlights of this article from the Bulletin:
"The recently launched Two Futures Project is a collection of young Evangelicals who are dedicated to working toward a nuclear-weapon-free world.
Although Evangelicals traditionally have supported nuclear deterrence the Two Futures Project believes that in a post-Cold War world, this stance must change.
Accordingly, its members believe that nuclear weapons are morally bankrupt."
Actually, nuclear weapons, like book matches, are morally neutral. It is when these things are in the hands of morally bankrupt people, arsonists, dictators, and tyrannical regimes such as North Korea and Iran, that is where the danger is.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebulletin.org ...
Glad everyone has the “evangelicals” into neat little boxes. This “evangelical” refuses to be a part of such lunacy.
Nuclear weapons are “bankrupt”? Er, I don’t think so. If one of those goes off in your favorite city launched by our enemy (you choose which enemy, there are many), you’ll think “bankrupt”!
Breath taking stupidity in the age of moral equivalence. Real Christians ought not participate in it.
The recently launched Two Futures Project is a collection of young Evangelicals who are dedicated to working toward a nuclear-weapon-free world
Without the treat of our nukes we would VERY quickly be run over
treat = threat
Stupid morons. The only way the muslims will part with their nukes is to use them on non-muslims.
No one told me that Evangelicals have a no nukes
policy. This story is hogwash
I think when I was his age, I might have agreed - but I would NEVER have worn my hair like that...
Just foolish. In this present world the wisest course of action is fast, pray and always keep your gun handy. Evil preys on the weak and complacent.
Naïve ignorance to believe this genie can be stuffed back in the bottle.
Their efforts will be better served IMO fighting socialism that drives such threats of death an destruction that nuclear weapons can never match.
Far more lives lost to socialist / communist regimes than nukes.
Without the treat of our nukes we would VERY quickly be run over
So, a left-wing Christian group is working against nuclear weapons...
That’s never happened before. /sarc
This is a carnal movement. Those students need to be studying their Bibles.
Exactly... it's only the somewhat "un-Christian" dagger at the enemy's throat that has enabled these people to freely follow the religion that they choose.
Jack Nicholson's line in A Few Good Men covers this pretty well:
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it."
Let’s get rid of these retarded “evangelicals” and keep the nukes.
and they do NOT speak for this Evangelical!!
Tyler served in the chapel at Yale and as Associate Minister at Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church in Hamden, Connecticut, where he was licensed and ordained. He also spent a year in London, England, as Study Assistant to the Rev. Dr. John Stott. Since 2001 he has served on the Board of Directors of the Global Security Institute, an organization he helped establish under the late U.S. Senator Alan Cranston. He and his wife live in Nashville, Tennessee.
His book, Brand Jesus: Christianity in a Consumerist Age, was published only months ago (May 2007). In it, Wigg Stevenson argues that American Christianity, especially evangelicalism, has been corrupted by the dominance of consumerism in modern life. The church’s mostly uncritical adoption of this secular condition has resulted in an idolatrous morphing of the message of Christ into just another brand. With Brand Jesus, the author names the growing concern felt by many Christians at the commodification of their faith.
We met with Wigg Stevenson at Yale Divinity School where he was presiding at Holy Communion, Marquand Chapel, and his wife was the preacher."
"The Global Security Institute is dedicated to strengthening international cooperation and security based on the rule of law, with a particular focus on nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament. GSI was founded by Senator Alan Cranston whose insight that nuclear weapons are impractical, unacceptably risky, and unworthy of civilization continues to inspire GSI's efforts to contribute to a safer world."
Typical evangelical? I dunno - haven't met all that many evangelicals who would go to Yale to learn about God. And not all that many are followers of Alan Cranston, who "...was reprimanded by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics for "improper conduct" on November 20, 1991 after he accepted $1 million in campaign contributions from the Lincoln Savings head, Charles Keating. Keating had wanted federal regulators to stop "hounding" his savings and loan association. The committee deemed Cranston's misconduct the worst among the Keating Five."
Let’s get rid of these retarded “evangelicals” and keep the nukes.
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