Wow! The knowledge of what I was thinking and meaning is mindboggling for someone who . . . well . . . hasn't a clue.
But I will return to my primary reason for stepping into the mud pit that you have made your home for the past few years. That is that too many Christian leaders have been wallowing in that pit for decades as it has grown deeper and deeper. They do it in the hopes that they can convince the government to bring the sword of law against all those evildoers who are sexually mixed-up, or want an abortion, or think that any level of socialism is an acceptable course of action.
And I guarantee you that if that is what Christianity is about, then Gandhi was too kind to them when he said "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
But I guess that somewhere in the Bible is a place where it says that while Jesus was a friend of sinners, it is the duty of his followers to either force them to repent or execute judgement on them on behalf of God. The RCC abandoned that method of conversion centuries ago, yet evangelicalism is still trying to replicate the Spanish inquisition. And they are happy to use their worship services to support one of the most immoral presidents of the entire history of the nation to force their will on everyone else. There is clearly nothing Christian about what they are doing in their support of the man. This is just doubling down on using the world and its governments to achieve what only Christ can do — give us peace, even in the midst of turmoil.
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- God is not Republican, nor Democrat
- God is not capitalist, nor socialist
- God is not white American male, nor poor Guatemalan (though he commands us to love both in the same way that we love ourselves)
- God did not charge us with the responsibility of enacting laws against anything that those who do not follow him find acceptable
Vengeance is not ours. It is His. Let him undertake to punish as he sees fit. We might be surprised at what it is that he punishes. We may have some of it wrong.