A Saintly
Salmagundi reminded me of someone who makes my blood boil – Jack Chick. It’s
one thing to think Catholic teachings are unbiblical, but resorting to poor scholarship
and outright lies to turn people against the Church is un-Christian.
Proposal Warns Evangelicals on Politics
Sun Jun 20, 6:31 PM ET
LOS ANGELES – A national evangelical group is mulling guidelines that would warn the faithful against allying themselves too closely with any one political party, “lest nonbelievers think that Christian faith is essentially political in nature.”
I’m all for keeping faith separate from party affiliation. If you vote for a certain party’s candidate because his views line up well with those your faith inspire in you, that’s fine. However, the blind faith most Evangelicals seem to have in Bush is disturbing and impedes any intelligent debate about religion and politics with them. “Let the Christian who opposes Bush be anathema.”
Here’s another article about the uneasy alliance between Evangelicals and Catholics
that’s recently been forged in politics.
How
the Evangelicals and Catholics Joined Forces
In 1960, the last time a Roman Catholic ran for president on the Democratic ticket,
evangelical Protestant leaders warned their flocks that electing John F. Kennedy
would be like handing the Oval Office to the Antichrist.
Since I’ve been listening to quite a bit of Marty
Minto lately, I decided to search Google for at-large opinions about him. He
doesn’t seem to make much of a splash in the blogosphere (not surprising, since
his broadcast is local to Pittsburgh), but I did find the following.
Talking
the Talk, Driving the Drive
Why I unprogrammed WORD-FM from my car radio
There are two kinds of people one should never argue with. The first is drunks. There’s no point in arguing with a drunk. As a paramedic, I found that it was often better to confuse them into doing what I wanted, or jujst call the cops to cuff the intox so that the intox had to do as instructed. The second kind of people one should never argue with are talk-show hosts. They have the control: the off switch.
I have to agree with this blogger that “Unfortunately, it would seem that Mr.
Minto has trapped in the materialist culture.” However, I disagree that teachings
against homosexuality are “based on some New Testament verses that actually
refer to pedophiles, not homosexuals.”
The post is a mix of points I agree and disagree with, but it’s interesting to me
as another viewpoint on Pittsburgh’s loudest Christian.
More on sheep stealing:
The Agape Press says that "residents of the Central American nation are hungry for the true gospel". What’s implied here is that Catholicism doesn’t teach the true Gospel. Sometimes Evangelicals really drive me nuts.
El Salvador Fertile Soil for the Gospel of Christ, Missionary Says
By Allie Martin
June 8, 2004
(AgapePress) – A Mississippi resident who has served as a missionary to El Salvador for nearly 20 years says residents of the Central American nation are hungry for the true gospel.