Re: The Reason for the Religious Right and The Legacy of Jerry Falwell
| Posted On: 05/16/07 02:34:13 PM |
Age 47, CA |
A lot of movements were and are reactions to one extreme or another. Communism was a reaction to a cruel Monorchy and there is some truth to the "Decadent Capitalism" Marx wrote about. The Nazis were a reaction to both the poverty created by the Treaty of Versales and the Communists attaempt to make Germany a Soviet Socialist Republic.
The problem with these reactions is that they have a nasty habbit of becomming an action unto themselves. Culminating with our latest gospel of bombs & bullets, the religious right has gone too far. The Gospel does not stand on passing one law or another. We are called upon to call unbelievers into the fold, not to regualte the conduct of Unbelievers.
In spite of their best intentions, if the religious right ever gains the power it desires, it will become the theocracy their opponents accuse them of being today.
This is why, back during the darkest days of the Clinton administration, my take was.
"The 2nd Amendment stands as a safeguard against the radical right as much as it does the godless left. I myself would be just as quick to shoot Falwells storm troopers as I would Hillary's".
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Re: The Reason for the Religious Right and The Legacy of Jerry Falwell
| Posted On: 05/16/07 10:10:32 AM |
Age 60, MO |
I appreciate your making the record straight about the Moral Majority and how it was more of a reaction to a quickly invading secular humanism; and not just a contrived political movement. Light exposes darkness, and those who want to remain in their sin do not like the Light, ergo bashing the activities of the Moral Majority. Having said that, I must now confess that I am opposed to large church groups or religious/Christian bureaucracies. Witness Rick Warren, Robert Schuller, Joel Osteen and others who have made major business corporations in the name of God. But such has been the nature of Christianity from the time of Constantine, through the Reformation, and right up to the present day. I do not believe that any and all of these large denominations are reflective of the Body and Bride of Christ. George Cancilla
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