 thisnamecantbetaken says: What's worse, many pastors avoid talking to their congregations about repentance and self sacrifice. So, like the vampire Lasat, they drain them of true spiritual life, while seducing them with voter-pamphlet sermons and feel-good theology. The organized church is in big trouble today--the message of repentance is a flat subject among churchgoers. People want to pull a voting lever, offer vocal support for whatever politician pays lip service to a few hot-button social issues, and shout hallelujah as they drive off in their Lincoln. Satan smiles and waves as they go by. What America needs is a repentant, spiritual church, not the political arm of a dominionist cult. Want to argue that point? Do it with the God who says, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." Anyone who thinks this is God's will, raise your hand. — Comment removed by clipper — The demographic group providing the highest percentage of support for going to war in Iraq were white evangelicals (over 80 percent). They continue to be it's largest group of supporters--in spite of the fact that Christian moral teaching forbids starting a war only as a last resort of self-defense--not a pre-emptive war, a "right" that our last administration claimed. Many of the Christian right ridicule the evidence for global warming and discount what most scientists are saying. Much of the Christian right supports an economic and tax policy sharply in contrast to the Bible's passion for a more just distribution of God's earth. So how did the religion of Jesus become pro-rich and pro-wa... What a hoot! So if I voted for GWB, I'm not a *real* Christian and if I belong to a Christian coalition group (which I don't), I'm double evil. Pure nonsense. Christians "break the 10 Commandments" daily. "There is none righteous; no not one." That's why we have "Christ" Who has made us "Christians" through belief in His substitutionary death...Death being the penalty for breaking the 10 Commandments! Geez...Christians need to learn the basics of the Faith. So as long as you believe in Christ you can go break whatever commandment you please because Christ (supposedly) already died for those sins... uh-huh. What a hoot! True spiritual authority is given by God to whom He qualifies. His criteria are clear. It is the humble, not the Sunday-morning-the-pastor-is-watching-me humble, but truly Christ-like, self-sacrificing, cares-about-others-more-than-self humble, that God anoints with power and authority.The Dalai Lama comes to mind but he has little authority from the power of any god that any can tell. Exactly who has the power and the authority from any invisible being? Seen anybody move a mountain or cure cancer or remove superstitious beliefs with the wave of a hand, lately? Me neither. All the knowledge, all the power we have was empirically gained through the hard work of determining ... |
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