Posted: 02/19/08

Suffer the chickens to come unto me?

You're looking at a photo of loggers tearing down another old growth rainforest so that leaders of the emerging "conversation" can publish even more books. How many trees do you think the emergents have destroyed for their revolution?

Tony Jones is the latest to kill trees for his new book, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. This detailed review reveals much about Tony Jones' concept of a new kind of Christian. He thanks none other than, say it together now, Brian McLaren, for helping to birth his book. McLaren has a lot to answer for.

Jesus, Jones tells us, did not have a statement of faith. Those are evidently the invention of blue-nosed fundies. Who cares what you believe? It's all good, apparently. Jones also gives a colorful account of a chicken slaughterhouse to prove how hypocritical Christians are. We apparently should be forming task forces and conducting impassioned marches at Tyson on behalf of chicken civil rights. Suffer the chickens to come unto me, Tony pleads. Perhaps he sees himself as a sort of fowl rights leader. I don't know. Would that the souls of men were as important to Mr. Jones as these birds. But Tony Jones says that McLaren helped birth this book. McLaren doesn't believe in hell. So there are no souls in danger, only chickens.

In the strange world of Tony Jones and his chicken-rights enthusiasts, evangelical Christians have done nothing good for the world at all up until now. Nothing. We are hypocrites, and we are evil because we care about the state of human babies in the womb and people's souls instead of global warming and gay rights. In Tony Jones' world, Jesus is the same type character trotted out by the liberation theologians in Latin America; Jesus, the revolutionary; Jesus, the re-distributor of wealth; Jesus, the Al Gore-style Captain Planet who will save us from melting polar ice caps; Jesus, the PETA animal rights crusader. But Jesus, the King of King's and only Savior of a soul on its way to hell? That would be fundamentalism, folks. Don't listen to them. They ruined everything.

Tony Jones is yet another revolutionary working for converts in the war against truth. As Christians who are not going along with his spiritual agenda, we must continue to raise the alarm about his false teachings regarding Christianity and the Scriptures. Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun. Jones' attacks on orthodox Christianity are indeed, nothing new. They're as old as the first challenge in the Garden, "Yea, hath God said?"

By Ingrid Schlueter Email: vcyproducer@aol.com Click here for bio and archived articles