"Look, Jessica Simpson's Christian! I think I'll start going to prayer meetings again!"
Leave Bill Clinton's religion out of this!
Trumpeting it to the secular world reeks of cola wars.
Is this because you are holding Christendom to a higher standard?
Do you hold secularists to the same standard, when they trumpet a list of intellectuals and/or celebrities who markedly do not endorse Christ, in order to reject Christianity out of hand?
Consider the quotes of St. Paul, about "...consider bretheren, how you were called--not many wise, not many successful" (my paraphrase), or about "becoming all things to all men, that I may by all means save some."
Just food for thought, no flames intended.
Cheers!
Is this because you are holding Christendom to a higher standard?
---No, I think I made that point pretty clearly when I said "I fail to see the importance of any one person becoming Christian, or atheist, or Hindu, or whatever." There should really be no impact, I think, on your personal choice based on OTHERS' personal choices. I don't care if Richard Gere is interested in Buddhism or tree-worshipping.
Do you hold secularists to the same standard, when they trumpet a list of intellectuals and/or celebrities who markedly do not endorse Christ, in order to reject Christianity out of hand?
---Yes.
Consider the quotes of St. Paul, about "...consider bretheren, how you were called--not many wise, not many successful" (my paraphrase), or about "becoming all things to all men, that I may by all means save some."
---I understand your point, but I feel like there is a difference in trying to convince people of the righteousness of your cause, and trying to sell them something. If we package God, is the message the same? I don't think it is at all. "Billy Bob Thornton says, Buy Jesus! On sale EVERYWHERE!" And that same passage was used to convert Christianity to include worship of voodoo gods and Native nature worship.
I don't know that Christianity or the people who practice these mutated versions of Christianity are better for it.