Eventually, her libtard “friends” will force her to choose between her faith or her former life . . . unless God works a miracle in their lives, too.
24 posted on 7/14/2013 8:21:23 AM by RatRipper: “Eventually, her libtard “friends” will force her to choose between her faith or her former life . . . unless God works a miracle in their lives, too.”
I agree that is a very good possibility she will be run out of the Democratic Party by her former allies.
The alternative is that she starts identifying with the remaining Christian groups in the Democratic Party, most of whom are either black evangelicals, Hispanic Catholics, or (older) white Southerners.
Regardless, I hope we can all agree that God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, and there are all kinds of awful and anti-Christian things being advocated in the Republican Party, too. Modern politics is trying to decide which party is the lesser of the two evils.
I don't think there is a future for conservative Christians in the Democratic Party, but it is hard to deny that a hundred years ago many evangelicals would have said the same about the damage being done to the Republican Party by New England liberals.
God runs the world and we don't.
I understand cynicism about alleged conversions by political liberals. There's good reason for the concern.
However, for people who want a new convert living in an ultraliberal city like New York in an ultraliberal political context to change her mind on everything overnight — please consider the difference between conversion and sanctification.
By any definition today I'm a hard-right Christian conservative, and I've always been a political conservative, but I was continuing to advocate some really stupid liberal theology for at least a half-decade after my conversion. Things take time. Working out the political implications of conservative theology can be even more difficult.
Being willing to take stands at personal cost is a key part of the evidence of conversion. A liberal Democrat woman willing to be openly pro-life has already made a very major step that will antagonize many of her liberal friends. Let's be honest; morality is one of the biggest reasons many liberals reject Christianity because they understand Christianity will require radical changes in their lives, and they either reject the gospel because they don't want to change their lives or because they see hypocritical so-called Christians who say one thing but do something very different.
I know nothing about her personal life, and that is her own business unless she chooses to make it public. However, based on her own testimony of abandoning Christianity in college, it's a good guess that she has the typical moral background of a secular liberal, and that quite possibly means she's had one more more abortions herself, and almost certainly has had numerous friends who have had abortions. If she's willing to be openly pro-life, I'll give her a lot of credit, and a lot of benefit of the doubt.
I could think of a lot better churches in New York City than Tim Keller's church for her to be attending, but if Keller is preaching the gospel and the gospel is converting liberal Democrats, that's a very good thing, even though there are an awful lot of other things Keller says that I don't like.