I went to Focus on the Family’s site and searched their family of ministries and found that document referenced here:
http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0000601.cfm
Boundless is their ministry for young adults.
Are you able to acknowledge that maybe you were wrong in your judgment against Focus on the Family?
[Jefferson's novel idea of keeping government out of the church]
Oh Jefferson and "the great majority" went a little beyond that:
"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."
-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom
"THE INSERTION [of Jesus Christ] WAS REJECTED BY THE GREAT MAJORITY"
FOF seems to have left that part out; evidently only marketing a selective reflection of American history that profits them... whereas Jefferson's ideal that "ALMIGHTY GOD HATH CREATED THE MIND FREE" - is better relflected by:
"The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
--Albert Einstein
BTW, it's ironic, given your criticism and plea that "I don't know what you're talking about" - that the article/page you referenced is "Focused" upon:
As are the Vult... err, Advertisers, I'VE HEARD peddling their services on local "Christian" commercial radio stations; advertisers who seem to disproportionately consist of:
Mortgage Brokers...
Credit Score "Fixers"...
Refinancers...
Foreclosure Avoidance peddlers...
Financial "Advisors"...
The Debt Distress Industry - who, evidently, see more fleece to be shorn from the gullible "Left Behind" sheeple.... than from consumers listening to secularly oriented stations in the same city. Noticed the same thing out in Anaheim, BTW - Certainly lot's of "Fish" in that sub-prime pond.
And the Gospel, on "Christian Radio"? Sadly, not readily discernable within the lyrics of the watered-down "feel good" musical pabulum the sheeple are fed and pacified with between commercials....
So I s'pose I'll just continue to believe my lying, ears.... my lying, cynical, ears - and this:
John 2:14-16
14 In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"
NIV
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Ba'al
--The Who?
