Okay I read this article today on the CNN website (which by the way is my favorite and the best cable news network there is). Can I just say that I am so freaking happy that there are other Christians out there who feel the same way as I do.
In the Bible in the books that come after the four books of the Gospel you see the building of the church. Of course you see many good things, but there is also so much corruption! Many of the leaders of the church throughout history have been very corrupt and have established man made injust laws according to their own selfish and often political agendas.
Of course today in the United States we do not see many religious and spiritual leaders making the laws for the people according to church doctrine at least. The reason for that is probably a little thing that some really smart old guys wrote into our Constitution called the 'Separation of Church and State.' However, that does not stop people from using the Bible to deliberately enforce and change policies in the United States. Don't get me wrong if I had it my way everyone would love Jesus, believe in God, and uphold the Bible in all ways possible, but that's never going to happen!! We Christians need to come to a realization that there are a lot of people in this world who will always and forever refuse to believe in what we believe, and under the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution these people are often endowed certain rights that our Bible, our faith, our morals, and our God would find wrong and sinful. It's just the painful truth, and we need to keep loving these people anyway and not condemn them. The best way to act like Christ is not to suppress and tear people down, but to just simply love people like Christ did.
Here's another cool article I just found about young Evangelical Democrats:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-campolo/gains-for-the-democrats-a_b_99089.html?referer=sphere_related_content
Saturday, May 3, 2008
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Welcome to the blogging world, I clicked on your link from the Carpetbagger Report.
I share the opinion that my Christian beliefs do not allow me to vote Republican in most state and national elections. As I wrote to friends recently:
My beliefs lead me to put more trust in the Democratic Party that led our country to an end to segregation through the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act (the reason southern whites followed Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms to the Republican Party, creating a solid south for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush). I believe the huge tax cuts and deficits (endless, if Bush gets his way and tax cuts are made permanent) is immoral "generational warfare" against our children. I believe we are entrusted by God to care for the Earth, in the 1,679,000,000,000th day of His creation (more impressive than 6 days, if you ask me). And I believe God does not hate his children if they are gay -- do you really believe Jesus would have taught differently -- "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone" -- in John, Chapter 8, if the person brought before Him by the Pharisees were homosexual?
Thank you so much for commenting kevinmc! I completely agree with you, and it is great to hear someone talking about these issues. So many Evangelical Christians are so afraid of opening themselves up to people who consider themselves homosexual that they lose great witnessing ground. I am not saying that we should be lecturing or scolding people on their indesgressions, but we should start opening ourselves up to having conversations with various people about who Christ is and what being a Christian really means. I believe that it should be an individual church's decision whether they will marry a homosexual couple, although I do believe it is a sin to be gay. I find it so hard to find people with similar opinions as I do on matters such as these, mostly I believe because people want things to be either black or white; democratic or republican; conservative or liberal; As a nation of many Christian citizens we need to really just start talking about these issues openly, and start relating faith to how it can be used in the public arena.
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