From the article:
“One of them (National Park Service) said,
“ours is a secular society as per our constitution (sic)”
and suggested “inappropriate interests” should be “screened out.”
This is clear viewpoint discrimination.”
As if they’re going to care.
If something is extremely enough opposed to the common world view, it’s going to have to fight from behind a miasma of persecution. But if it is really of God, it won’t need to be whined into acceptance. It will shine of its own merit to people who will see it in spite of all.
We got a bigger problem in that most Christian practice is a shadow of its own self. We have little real motivation to believe things for the sake of God, because our Christianized world, or what is left of it, is still so nice.
Understanding how the creation is a God-imbued creation is needed, or people won’t care whether the biblical week was 24 hours x 6 days in our own time frame or whether it was a metaphorical handful of billions-of-years ages. They won’t even be thinking the bible itself is a candidate for making sense.
Incidentally — and I’m looking at your tag — liberalism used to exist in a classic form, which believed that each person could validly seek for truth and beauty. That worked great as long as God was embraced into the midst of it. The modern form has even vitiated its own stated goal, becoming illiberal, because God has been dismissed rather than embraced.
Liberalism’s problem today is that most of its followers are doing it ungodly. God is very clear that we should be liberal towards our neighbors. Some of the admonitions that God made towards sinning Israel were along the lines of defending the orphan and the widow.
By making the entire concept anathema (as is very popular on FR) we have thrown the baby out with the bath water, and then we wonder why we can’t seem to have a Christian society any more! It’s because we’ve been trying to define heaven in terms of the things on earth.