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should you really be involved in the political events of the times i.e. voting, fighting for or against issues concerning your beliefs. state your reasons for or against.
Originally posted by lamarrswailsWhat would happen if all christians would not get involved in the demacratic procces?
should you really be involved in the political events of the times i.e. voting, fighting for or against issues concerning your beliefs. state your reasons for or against.
Originally posted by lamarrswailsWhy wouldn't a Christian want their voice and views known on any
should you really be involved in the political events of the times i.e. voting, fighting for or against issues concerning your beliefs. state your reasons for or against.
Originally posted by Conrau KMaybe we don't like being sheep, or having the wool pulled over our eyes.
I don't understand why poeple are so averse to an institution that instructs love and compassion.
Originally posted by lamarrswailsare you including the neo-nazi christians ....maybe the Society of Friends how about the Gnostics?
should you really be involved in the political events of the times i.e. voting, fighting for or against issues concerning your beliefs. state your reasons for or against.
Originally posted by David CWell their not a justification. The ideals of the church are the ones i mentioned. It is not droned into you. Its just there for anyone to practice. Love cannot justify evils.
Maybe we don't like being sheep, or having the wool pulled over our eyes.
I don't think it is necessarily an aversion to the principles you've mentioned. Rather, it might be a reaction to the institutions' proponents and their dogmatic ideology. Especially when one reads the almost daily stories of abuse of power, or people like the POTUS using "Christian ideals" as justification for their agendas.
Originally posted by Conrau Khistory is full of examples of how state power in the hands of clerics destroys not only religious freedom but the very concepts that the powerful clerics had started with. That not because of rightness or wrongness of the initial concepts , but because the make-up of the clergy is changed overtime by the simple fact that having power attracts the very type of power-hungry people that would otherwise be commiting their crimes against God's people under the auspices of state power. And maybe a church ought to be there to at least bear witness and maybe ease some of the suffering instead of being the cause of it.
Well their not a justification. The ideals of the church are the ones i mentioned. It is not droned into you. Its just there for anyone to practice. Love cannot justify evils.
Originally posted by Conrau KThis Joseph Romero?
I acknowledge that the church (and when i say that i mean the clergy and authorities)) have been corrupt at times. However many clergy have stood up against power hungry poeple such as Joseph Romero once archibishop of al salvidor. HE stoo ...[text shortened]... the church (that of freedom from oppression, tolerance, justice).
Originally posted by Alpha10Is it too hard for believers to understand that the letter X is from the Greek letter chi, the first letter of the word Christ?
What are Xtians? Is it really TOO hard for Atheists to type Christians?