A lot of good it did for Rev. Wright to retire.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 am
What’re these people trying to do to the Big O? I think the rat is there on the south side of Chi, just like Kennedy’s rat was somewhere in that toddlin’ town too. But, I’ve finally found a whitie that wants to be black more than the bloggie.
http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Theft-Jesus-Hijacking-Religion/dp/0307395782/ref=cm_taf_title_featured?ie=UTF8&tag=tellafriend-20
We’ve seen too much of the religious right. Welcome to the religious left.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Sorry, looks like an exercise in smart-ass pedantry to me.
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I don’t know about pedantry, but surely smart-ass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fht3M9G4KSc
You sure got a nose for it, though. The author also wrote a bookon the Great Depression (The fact that we seem to have forgotten the fact that capitalism is a god that can and does fail is worrying to the author, and he examines some of the dangerous and misguided tacit assumptions of contemporary politicians such as the supply side “voodoo” economics of Ronald Reagan’s administration.) and bios of FDR and Cuomo, neither of which were editorially reviewed .
As for the pedantry, well, he’s a professor here:
Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college in Jackson, Mississippi, supported by the United Methodist Church. The college was founded by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps in 1889-90 by the donation of the college’s land and $50,000. Dr. William Belton Murrah was the college’s first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the United Methodist Church organized the college’s early fund-raising efforts. Both men now have halls named in their honor. Major Millsaps and his wife are interred in a tomb near the center of campus. President Dr. Frances Lucas was named to her position in 2000. She’s the 10th Millsaps President, and the first female in that office.
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fht3M9G4KSc
Easy Jesus. You can be saved without all the sacrifice and good works!
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I must admit that these people cited in this comment thread have disingenuousness down to a fine art. Co-opting what traditional Christians have been accusing NCC-affiliated churches (think Presby, Methodist and Episcopalian), liberal Catholics, New Thought types (think Unity, Christian Science and Science of Mind) and the various new Age movements that are at least tenuously tethered to something vaguely related to Christianity of - namely, a “Christianity Lite.” What these clever socialists-in-clerics’-collars have done is to say that the “Christian right” - a catch-all if there ever was one (It amazes me that they still lump Pat Robertson together with the main branch of conservatism) - is opting out of some kind of spiritual heavy lifting, and that that heavy lifitng consists of “service to the poor” or some such thing.
There is a sovereign God who has had his patience tried over and over throughout human history by a wayward human species innately mired in sin. What the Judeo-Christian strain requires of us is a truly contrite heart, a humble kneeling before that which created all that comprises reality.
The really serious conservatives who are also really either serious Christians or Jews are not doing some kind of “lite” skirting of the serious ultimate issues.
Leftists who want yet more wealth redistribution and state control of individual lives have a lot of spiritual homework to do.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Amen. From the preceding two Catholic prelates, we get that priests are not meant to be politicians. If there is too close of a relationship between the altar and the throne, it is the altar which pays the price. But, still, thank God that here we are free to pursue our views and our good news as the spirit moves us. Even if it does not move others. Examples given by Professor Mcelvane of Christianity Lite are indeed the aforementioned Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Jerry Falwell, Ted Haggard, and the voluptuous bitch Ann Coulter. Some are lighter than others, ain’t it heavy to bang the drums of war? Admittedly, there has been a liberation theological streak within Catholicism–a criticism of JPII. His burden is said to be light, though. All creation still groans…..
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
An outrage awaiting an outcry. I’d leave a church like this but she is much bigger than me and certainly much bigger than the hideous chaplain that denied this man commuion because he is an Obama supporter. What are we coming to? If this had happened during the JFK campaign all hell would have broken loose and of course JFK would never have been nominated, much less elected. Sheesh!
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/OPINION12/806030318/1002/OPINION
“…denying (Douglas Kmeic–a veteran of the Reagan Justice Dept.) communion for political reasons may spark an outcry inside the church.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=DH1RV9uu6I4C&dq=EJ+Dionne&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3De%2Bj%2Bdionne%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1&cad=author-navigational
More than two hundred years have passed since the Constitution was written, yet Americans still cannot make up their minds whether religion is primarily private, public, or a combination of the two. This collection of essays explores the unsettledand often unsettlingquestion of organized religions role in contemporary public life