RE: I am confused by American christians
July 28, 2017 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2017 at 5:33 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(July 28, 2017 at 4:01 pm)Drich Wrote: American church leaders in America:
Charles Stanley
Haddon Robinson
M.R. DeHaan
*James MacDonald
Hank Hanegraaff
James Dobson (RIP)
Steve Brown
Alistair Begg
These are american Church leaders.
Okay, I had to check out the "James Dobson (RIP)" message just to see if there was some news story that I (and presumably most of us here) would have missed, but it turns out he's still alive and well. Not sure why you put his name there.
Also, I can't be sure about most of the other names (especially given that you seem to have misspelled most of them; I have corrected each spelling error, at least, as far as I've been able to tell), but honestly, except for the standard anti-gay and anti-abortion cultural signalling, the closest thing to a controversy I've been able to find on them (by skimming Wikipedia) is Hanegraaff's not quite buying into the literal account of Genesis.
However, I do have some familiarity with American Christianity, and it seems kind of odd that most of the people on the list were people I hadn't heard of (and not just because they walk the walk, I know of a couple, like Billy Graham or Paul Tillich or Jay Bakker or Martin Luther King Jr. or Rob Bell or Tony Campolo or even AL GREEN, who actually pastors a church in Memphis when he's not touring), and the only exception to that rule is a man who thinks men can keep their sons from turning gay by taking them into the shower and having them stare at his Dad's big cock, and runs an alarmingly successful group that devotes itself largely to denying gay people their civil rights. We may be cherry-picking, but given that the people the atheists here pick, who may or may not represent Christ's teachings are at least vocal enough that I can at least recognise their names, and yours aren't, you don't seem to be doing a very good job.
For Fuck's Sake, I just managed to think of seven Christian leaders who don't reflect poorly on their religion off the top of my head in that one parenthetical in my third paragraph.
The key issue in the problem isn't just that the messed up Christians in America aren't just a vocal minority who get plopped in front of a microphone to rant just so the news media can get some views. They might be easily ignored if not for the fact that they (calling themselves The Moral Majority) more or less took over the Republican party in the late 1970s after they figured out that aligning themselves with Richard "I am not a Crook" Nixon and Gerald "Drop Dead New York" Ford wasn't a good way to get votes.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.