I couldn’t not post a link to this excellent article, by Melinda Henneberger. An excerpt:
We as a nation - a proudly, increasingly loudly Christian nation - have somehow convinced ourselves that the selfish choice is usually the moral one, too.
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Which is how “Christian” morality got to be all about other people’s sex lives - and incredibly easy lifting compared to what Jesus actually asks of us. Defending traditional marriage? A breeze. Living in one? Less so. Telling gay people what they can’t do? Piece o’ cake. But responding to the wretched? Loving the unlovable? Forgiving the ever-so-occasionally annoying people you actually know? Hard work, as our president would say, and rather more of a stretch.
Her observation in the first paragraph (about Ben Franklin coining a popular pseudo-Christian phrase) reinforces a point I’ve been making for awhile about ignorance - willful or otherwise. It goes alongside with other facts that people conveniently don’t know about, such as “under God” being added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950s. (And join the discussion about that rigamarole here, won’t you? Blog pimping, yay!)
Anyway. Go read the full article. I know many of you will have disagreements to post (bring it!), but I also know a few Christians who will agree whole-heartedly.
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2 Responses to "What She Said"
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Terrible article. Full of strawmen arguments; wrongly equates moral convictions and government action. No time to further critique. Pfft!