Thinking about this post I ran across another post on the Colorado Springs evangelical, er, uh, whatever it is.
This blogger who visited one of those churches in Colorado Springs. Yeah, it is interesting. The pastor goes to India and then talks about all the things that are wrong with the Indians. Not enough Christian, not enough American democracy, and evidently not enough White Americans.
Guys, I have heard for sometime that evangelicals have renounced their racist past--though none of them seem to have taken note of their racist past and vowed to learn from it. But it is clear from Haggerty and this doofus, that the American church is filled with people who look at American wealth and assume that the wealth and power are a product of being white and Christian. Not because countries like America have benefited from developing country resources. Not because we have successfully exported poverty to other countries. Not because we consume well more than our fair share of world resources. Why is it that AmeriChristians are so blind to this? Why is it that they go to another country and bad mouth it?
Grownup Christians? I am waiting for you just as I wait for the Grownup Republicans. The GC's, as I will call them, need to step up and reassert a model of humilty. They also need to recall Jesus's business model. As I recall, it wasn't diversify and cut labor costs. It was about giving away wealth to take care of the poor and follow Christ. It wasn't, as Haggerty seems to think, to pursue the market wealth. And, it wasn't as this guy seems to think, that white Christians are destined by God to be wealthy.
The modern Conservative Evangelical movement seems to be wallowing in horrible theology and McChurches with Happy Sermons and Big Macs for all.
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