Posted on 04/09/2007 6:48:52 AM PDT by Valin
I think the media knows that, and I will be very surprised if the media is ever willing to show rational, calm, loving Christians making a case for unborn children.
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The left co-opts and seduces those it hates.
I saw this one, and it seemed to me that it's focus was basically this: "real" Christianity means a focus on what liberal Christianity calls social justice. Evangelicals tend to focus more on a personal relationship with Christ and leave out the social justice part. That means they aren't even real Christians. Jesus was really a socialist.
The problem is “liberal Christanity” puts the cart before the horse (IMO)
Of course this debate goes all the way back to the begining.
lol
Trivial silliness.
Heck, even PBS knows from whence its butter comes. I got a catalog last week from PBS movies and it was full of war and religion.
If Jesus is not preaching social justice, what is he preaching? Believing Christians have a responsibility to those in need is not Marxism, and many evangelicals are as committed to a social justice theology as are Lutherans, Catholics, etc.
Southern Baptist are almost the first on the scene of any disaster in this country, and abroad.
Then there is the on going work. You name the need and we are involved.
Do a little research, and you will come to a totally different opinion.
Someone used Co-op down further in the thread. That’s what up. The so called evangelical right being discussed on CNN was not really all right but many are easily with the left, socialism, social gospel, etc such as Rick Warren. CNN and the whole media just twisting, manipulating minds to change the Church into the godless world’s “do-good bunch” of social change agents etc.
Specials on tv at a special time of year are one thing, blasting out a political agenda instead of the news the rest of the year overrides that one thing.
It’s the daily unrelenting agenda of CNN that is the problem and that can’t be rectified by an occasional special that seems even handed.
If I sock you around 51 weeks of the year, you are still going to be bruised during the one week I treat you with kindness.
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As long as Robin Meade is on I’ll have to keep watching.
In the sense that we, as individuals should behave justly, perhaps. "Social Justice" however, has come to mean the forcable redistribution of wealth. Maybe the FR New Testament scholars can tell us if Jesus preached that.
Not perhaps. Read the Beatitudes, or any of Jesus’ sermons. There is no doubt that Christians have both individual and collective responsiblities to the poor, the weak, the despised, the sick, and the out of favor. I can’t have an individual relationship with Christ and ignore what he says about how I need to live my life.
Christ doesn’t ask us to have others forcibly redistribute of our wealth-he expects us to do it willingly and with joy!
Conservatives, both political and religious, believe this is not Virtue, but stealing, and that true social justice involves Charity, comprised of freely giving in love.
Oh, I agree with you 100 %. And this form of helping is what Jesus meant Christians to do. "Social justice", means a different form of helping, though, in common usage, and by liberal theologians. It's used to justify any form of government led income dsitribution or social engineering.
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