Organized religion in America plays a peculiar role in relation to politics. Instead of being a prophetic voice on behalf of the poor, the powerless and the marginalized, it has become more often an apologist for the corporate rich.
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The secular ruling ideology is convinced that Jesus Christ was wrong when he said you can't serve both God and money. With the support of most Christians, it practices the secular economic values of the Russian-born atheist Ayn Rand-the gospel of greed.
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We now have the most corrupt, dishonest, and mean-spirited government in our history. Its performance in people programs is the worst in the industrial world. The world's richest country is at or near the bottom in things like: minimum wage, vacation time, paternity leave, poverty rate, illiteracy rate, crime rate, prison rate, access to healthcare, access to legal services, access to decent housing, access to public transportation, and access to higher education.
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The secular ruling ideology would collapse without the support of its religious base. Since it reflects Nihilistic and relativistic values that are the antithesis of Christian values, why do Christians support it?
The Christian values tell us to love our enemies, love our neighbors as ourselves, and do unto others as we would have them do unto us. The secular ruling ideology, on the other hand, cultivates hate, fear, violence, greed and exploitation.
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The church has done a poor job of teaching Christian social values over the last 30 years.
The polls now show that, the more often people go to church, the more they support the anti-Christian goals and values of the secular ruling ideology.
Who would have dreamed that Christians would support military invasions to build a secular corporate empire-an empire to rule the world by force? We are now reaping the results of that ideology: large scale death, destruction and division at home and around the world.
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Exactly. I really wonder how they have done it, but the Bush administration has succeeded in turning the world upside down. Christians now defend torture, greed, war, and wealth. The conservative Church has a lot to answer for.
4 comments:
There are many groups among christians. People should take necessary steps to unite everyone into one so that peace and prosperity might exist.
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peter
Christian Drug Rehab
Perhaps everyone should become members of either the United Methodist Church or the United Church of Christ then because clearly they are already on their way toward unity. Just look at their names.
Or, we could recognize that denominational splits are essentially human issues that have little bearing on spiritual matters.
Perhaps we can choose our paths for ourselves.
Yes, as peter said there are many christian groups all over world they should unite together to be unique.
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JOHN
http://www.christian-drug-rehab.org
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