Back in 2008, LEO observed that Sojourn definitely Smells Like Holy Spirit:
Sojourn is a Southern Baptist church, and the message here is not a particularly progressive one. Pastors counsel a strict adherence to scripture, which means abortion is murder, men are the natural-order leaders and homosexuality is a sin from which gays need to be converted and redeemed.So how does the school corporation enabling such a regressive subtraction to the community spin it? Like this:
Brad Snyder, deputy superintendent for New Albany-Floyd County schools, said the sale is "a huge win-win for the community” because the church intends to use it for "advancing community outreach."Groan.
This is civil society? Really, Brad? How soon before we're taking money away from public education for Sojourn to re-educate gays?
I find your classification of Christians as cult members interesting. You cite two reasons for your stance: the definition of marriage and the definition of life. It is odd that Christians are being persecuted for adhering to the tenants that the cultural institution of marriage is between man and woman and that a new life is created at the moment of conception and that same physical life ends at the moment of death.
ReplyDeleteThe odd part of your argument, is that almost anyone can go back to when they were five, six, seven, eight years old and think about how they would have defined marriage. It most likely would have been defined as marriage between a man and a woman. Also, if someone was to go back to that same age and perhaps think about a baby brother or sister growing in their mom's belly, I bet they would remember thinking of that baby as being alive and fully human.
What you must be saying is that you were wrong at five, six, seven, eight years old when you held those common beliefs about marriage and about life. Either that, or you are stating that you were a member of this same cult and have since broken free and that your thoughts have been liberated.
I don't think that's the case though. At a young age you also learned that 1+1=2. Hopefully you learned much more math beyond that point, but one plus one still equals two. It didn't change.
The definition of marriage and the fact that life begins at conception didn't change either. The Christian concept of these things has always been true and is still true. These things have only changed in the minds of those who have been brainwashed by agents of an agenda determined to justify their own alternate lifestyle. Sounds a bit like a cult to me.
So who was the cult again?
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