For several years, some readers of EthicsDaily.com have voiced the crusade mentality, contending that the ultimate solution in Iraq is Christian conversion.
The problem with this view is American Christians themselves. In America everyone knows about the birth of Jesus Christ and the accompanying message of peace on Earth. That knowledge is escapable, especially at Christmas. But that knowledge hasn't changed the bloodlust of the Christian Right, who see America as the Christian nation that it is not and violence as a missionary strategy that it isn't.
The knowledge of Jesus Christ hasn't turned fundamentalists, evangelicals, Catholics, mainline Protestants and quasi-church attendees from their self-righteous commitment to holy war.
No, Christian conversion hasn't converted America's pro-crusade churchmen.
Why do some American Christians think that converting others to Christianity would do for non-Christians what it hasn't done for them?
Friday, December 29, 2006
On the Blood Lust of the Christian Right
Robert Parham has written an insightful essay about the futility of connecting evangelism with military crusades. Here's a quote:
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that article is a very thought provoking article. Christianity Today ran an article a couple years ago talking about the "spritual awakening" in Rwanda shortly before the genocide that took place there. We need to relook and rethink how we do evangelism and discipleship, both foreign and locally.
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