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Originally Posted by Dancing
Please provide the answer. What are you thinking? Are you really suggesting Cahn is inciting a campaign to round up a certain "people group" with this book?
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“Round up” is a figure of speech just as Cahn uses his own metaphors.
Cahn writes:
And so this message will not be politically correct, nor will it be political. It will be biblical. It will be true. And wherever it falls, so be it. I will not hold back. And if I offend you, I apologize but I cannot apologize for offending you. Without truth, there is no love. On a day that so embodies the future course of our nation, it is critical that we must both pray and speak what is true. No, it may not be politically correct but it is preaching to the choir i.e. the conservative religious right wing political party. It is very political and then he quotes his “Harbinger” book and sprinkles it throughout his message. A little self-serving don’t you think.
This is an old message to old people. He appeals to the Bible of the Old Testament of devastation and condemnation rather than the New Testament message of love, peace and redemption. Unfortunately our churches today are not filled with Millenials because they have been turned off by the politicizing of Christian churches which has taken place ever since the moral majority put Ronald Reagan in the white house. Interestingly enough in South America, Christianity is blossoming despite all the travails that they experience and surprisingly most of them lean left or moderate politically. God is not on the side of the political right or their policies of greed and control who appear to prefer to leave the poor in their poverty and the homeless on the streets. It is the corrupting influence of the political right upon our churches which is most problematic. Cahn has it wrong.
Cahn writes,
And those, who simply remain true to what had always been known as true, are now vilified, marginalized, mocked, labeled ‘intolerant,’ and increasingly banned from the public square, and, ultimately, persecuted. I thought our country was based on the constitution. We are supposed to be a land of laws. Where is the separation of church and state? Persecuted? Mocked? Villified? I would agree with Cahn that he and the group who love his message may well be “intolerant” but otherwise they own most of the corporations, run most of the politics and thus responsibility is squarely on their heads.