Reply #30: There is a weird thing that goes on in the Christian Camp. [View All]

Most people who come from an evangelical tradition do not espouse the heavy handedness of the fundamentalist. Legislation and fear and hatred are not effective means of bringing the Gospel Message.

The problem is we tend to seek peace in the camp rather than war. And when we do resort to war....we feel an obligation to do it wuietly...withing the Church walls rather than public display for the secular camp to see.... Why? Because we think that is what Jesus would want.....So this vacuum tend to exist and the Fundies gain ground.



The problem is that it is pretty clear that We are called to judge one another....not the world...but the Church.... You see that through out the Gospels as Jesus deal with the Pharisees and you see that in the letters when Paul and James deal with Bad Doctrine. The American Church is largely congregational and the televangelical community answer to no one.


I for one am sick and tired of the fundies destroying the Gospel message to score political points and sell books; relying or raw political power rather than the power of God. Holding to a form of Godliness but having given up on hope in its power to transform lives.

The fundies are craven heretics. but the evangelical community has allowed Thieu ilk to fest and grow like a cancer in our midst. Part of that is being polite....part of that is a tendency of the evangelical left to focus more on a social gospel then on Christ..


But in my view the only way we fix this is to shun politeness withing the community and flush the heretics out.

What the secular left has to understand however. is that these issues have to be dealt with withing the camp.... and if we are to to this as Jesus did it......we need to have our war within our walls without it being a public spectacle....WHich is what the secular left wants.