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To: jim35; Nextrush

Basically, mainstream religion is a bunch of social good works programs, rather than focused on God?


10 posted on 12/03/2006 4:14:39 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( FRhomepage on IE is very ugly. Firefox was used to make. Can you help?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
My mom goes to one of these Episcopal churches.

My dad calls it "The Church Of Whatever".

L

11 posted on 12/03/2006 4:17:01 AM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Basically, mainstream religion is a bunch of social good works programs, rather than focused on God?

Doctrinally, "mainstream religion" is the assertion that the gospel is not itself but rather, something else in drag. Almost universally, the "something else" is the philosophical fad of the previous generation. Liberation theology, for example, asserts that the gospel is actually Marxism in drag. If those who marry the spirit of the times are soon widowed, what can we say of those who marry intellectual corpses, the obsolete, passe, quaint, outmoded, spirit of the previous generation? Philosophical necrophiliacs, perhaps? Frankly, I'd rather be united to the Risen and ever-living Christ!

Do these people have any idea how pathetic they look trying to slavishly ape dated notions they think are fashionable, and au courant?

39 posted on 12/04/2006 3:20:24 AM PST by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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