Ping!
It is interesting that liberal media and websites attack Christianity almost daily today. NY Times, Huffington Post, Salon, etc.. In the past, the atheists kept a somewhat lower profile. In the Obama era, it is open season on Christians and Jews.
I saw Jesus for sale as a velvet picture in a cheap frame. Right next to Elvis. At a flea market.
It’s too bad that a cuckoo bird like Frank Schaeffer gets so much attention. He left evangelicalism and became Greek Orthodox and promptly began to lecture the Church what real Orthodoxy is. Now he is pretty much an atheist; or, as he puts it, “an atheist who believes in God.” He goes to Liturgy in Greek, but says he doesn’t understand a word of it , which he says is a good thing. Now he sells a leftist secularism as his faith, saying that is the religion of Jesus. Why doesn’t he give it up? I think it’s because he has been a professional Christian his entire life and doesn’t know what else to do with himself.
bkmk
1: This is why conservative Christians donate more to charity. Because we hate the poor, yep.
2: Jesus followed the law perfectly, this is why he was the perfect sacrifice for OUR sin.
3: Jesus urged a return to tradition and what is right, not some leftist feel-good garbage.
To sum it up, leftists hate God, this is why they twist His word so much to fit their view.
Jesus is just alright with me. I’m thinking of writing a song. (sarcasm) The assault on Christianity never ends. But ya’ know what? We can handle it.
for christians, the priority is to follow Christ first and always
any political ideology has to come second
the problem with Frank Schaeffer is his political ideology comes first
and any religious beliefs have to serve that ideology
which is why he started as an evangelical, then became greek orthodox, and now is an atheist who occasionally “deigns to talk to God”
Romans 1: any created thing put ahead of God is idolatry
Frank Schaeffer puts liberalism first, not God
Frankie Schaeffer is the poster boy for lowlife ingrate children who ride on their parents’ cred, while bad-mouthing all the parents stood for.
What a difference between Frankie Schaeffer and Franklin Graham!
Frank Schaeffer is to theology and especially Protestant theology what Ron Reagan is to politics. If it weren’t for their being liberal kids of famous conservative parents, nobody much would care (nobody would much care? works either way).
And as I’ve said before, Jesus is neither left nor right but royalist. Why would the King of Kings and Lord of Lords be anything else?
When Jesus comes back it won’t be as the Son of Man - it will be as Conqueror and Lord of All. The author’s arguments will then be moot.
Schaeffer writes:
“Every time Jesus mentioned the equivalent of a church tradition, the Torah, he qualified it with something like this: “The scriptures say thus and so, but I say . . .””
That’s not how it works. What Jesus actually says is, “You have heard it said... but I say...” — and the “you have heard it said” part is *tradition*, not scripture. Jesus is demanding that people pay more attention to what God actually said rather what some “important person” said about what God actually said. Often as not, he is challenging tradition that excused people from God’s clear command.
Jesus was urging people to go “back to the source” of the original scriptures, pretty much the exact opposite of what Schaeffer claims.
Alternet, you mean communist net.
from what I recall, Jesus was a small businessman, who worked until he had enough money saved so his mother would be taken care of, He didn’t have her resort to social security or had Her go on welfare. No social programs back then, everyone took care of themselves and families took care of each other.
He obeyed and preached that we obey the 10 commandments which would mean that we would believe in God, worship God on the sabbath and not kill especially the most vulnerable — the unborn and those sick and near death. To Honor your father (man) and your mother (woman) in the sacrament of marriage between one man and one woman. In Matthew, Jesus spoke about adultery and marriage between a man and a woman. Also, the respect of private property and property rights were paramount, so paramount there are 2 commandments about this.
Jesus was very conservative.