Religiously Dissing America's Independence Day

OrthodoxNet ^ | 7/6/2010 | Mark Tooley

[ezfindit]

Predictably, Jim Wallis’s Religious Left Sojourners blog dishonored Independence Day by featuring an op-ed headlined “Why Christianity and July 4th are Incompatible.”

In it, a young pacifist pastor explained why Christians can’t “celebrate” having “killed thousands upon thousands of people because they [the British] were taxing us without giving us representation in parliament.”

Of course, the reasons for the American Revolution were far more complex than a tax dispute. As the Declaration of Independence summarized the former colonists’ grievances against their once monarch:

"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands."

[ezfindit]

The religious left is spreading more hate-America garbage.

[ozzymandus]

Jim Wallis is anti-American scum. No wonder Obama loves him.

[ezfindit]

Ovomit, replaced a black hate-America radical, Rev. Right, with a white hate-America radical, Jim Wallis. Same radical leftist tune, different singers.

[a fool in paradise]

Ask a “pacificist” leftist where he stands on the Israel-Palestine dispute and you’ll often find they support the Palestinian war including the use of suicide bombers (”the ONLY weapons they have, sob”).

[Charlespg]

These idiots are not Christians,no matter how much they say they are

[ezfindit]

Yes, they are not really Christian. The expose leftist dogma disguised in pacifist and religious language.

[elpadre]

Last month Glenn Beck featured Wallis as one of several leftist enemies of the nation

[Charlespg]

I despise pacifists

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

[sean327]

Did you read the comments? I can’t stand people who sit on their a$$es and think God is going to take care of every thing. Those people are lazy, both physicaly and mentaly. They are the same people who also believe govt should provide cradle to grave entitlements. What these clowns fail to understand is that the greatest gift given to us by God is Free Will. With this gift we have the ability to rise up against those who would take our great God given gift, FREEDOM!!

[circlecity]

"In it, a young pacifist pastor explained why Christians can’t “celebrate” having “killed thousands upon thousands of people because they [the British] were taxing us without giving us representation in parliament.”

I thought it was the Brittish who killed "thousands and thousands" of Americans who refused to submit any longer to a colonial dictatorship.

[popdonnelly]

There are lots of churches in which a political agenda has taken over. Some pastors and church members want their church to endorse and promote their political views.

[TopQuark]

I wish all these pacifists would go to something like Soviet Union, where their churches would be burned to the ground and they themselves imprisoned. If this pastor were doing hard labor beyond the Arctic Circle, he would be singing a different song about freedom.

He can be a pacifist only because great many Americans gave their lives for his freedom. This scum cannot even rise to merely acknowledge that.