[WindMinstrel]

I just discovered Joel Miller's Razormouth site -- "Cutting-edge Christianity". It's pretty durned good, though rather Calvanist in outlook. I highly recommend it

[WindMinstrel]

this may interest you; if not, my apologies.

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 479 (1928)

[Rays_Dad]

"hypocrisy-nigglers"


Hey he used the word nigglers! I am calling for his job for being insensitive to black people. Sir, you must step down right now.

niggle - "to spend excessive time on inconsequential details; trifle. OR To criticize constantaly in a pettty manner."

[MrLeRoy]

With the Scriptures themselves, things are a little less prone to the willy-nilly – hence Martin Luther's appeal to sola Scriptura.

Sure---that's why all "sola Scriptura" Christians are in complete agreement on doctrine. <rolls eyes>

[headsonpikes]

This intriguing article deserves to be read by thoughtful Christians.

A sober pondering of the historical parallels might penetrate the calcified layer of socio-political conditioning that protects most closed minds from dangerous ideas.

On a frosty Friday in H*ll!

Oh well, even the whitest of whited sepulchres can have an epiphany. ;^)

[JediGirl]

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[Taliesan]

If the government indeed serves as an occasional moral wrench, the church must make certain it never cranks it except when it is very clearly in the right.

There is no New Testament justification for the church to have any interest in "cranking" the "wrench" of government to accomplish some moral end.

Said differently, there is NO task or responsibility the Lord gave the church which requires the power or assistance of the State. None.

Said differently, nothing the State can accomplish is part of what Jesus came to do.

Said differently, "My kingdom is not of this world."

To put it in the vocabulary Jesus ultimately chose in relating to Pilate:

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[Just another Joe]

Puff

[dcwusmc]

BIG bump!

[sweet_diane]

Bumping for reading after the kids go to bed...looks interesting

[maxwell]

What's wrong with Calvinism?