Tragically, Scarborough and DeLay's brand of grossly misguided theology is echoed by the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention and preached from many pulpits in America today. Even more tragically, underneath their chicken-little rhetoric lies a real war against Christianity in America.
Scarborough and DeLay are heroes of today's Religious Right, an organization whose real values are privilege, greed, worldly power and deceit -- the very things that the Bible teaches are opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Thus there is a traitorous war against Christianity in America today, waged by the Religious Right, a group who bears the name "Christian" but lives in opposition to that which Jesus taught and embodied: humility, servanthood, love for one's enemies, integrity, honesty, and truth.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
The Real War Against Christians
Kudos to Bruce Gourley for his essay responding to the "War Against Christians" in the April 2006 issue of the Baptist Studies Bulletin. He clearly identifies the source of the attack on American Christianity:
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Would that actually make them Anti-Christ?
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