Posted on 07/27/2010 12:39:07 AM PDT by Brugmansian
Nothing seems to scare the populist Left more than the people. Protest the Obama administration’s big spending, pervasive centralizing, expansive regulating policies, and you must be an enemy of all that is good and true. Attend a Tea Party rally and you’re probably a racist and certainly not a Christian.
At least that is the view of the leading left-wing evangelical Jim Wallis. Indeed, he sees the Tea Party as an essentially libertarian movement, which makes it doubly suspect. He declares: “Libertarianism has never been much of a multi-cultural movement. Need I say that racism—overt, implied, or even subtle—is not a Christian virtue.”
So Tea Party activists aren’t good Christians. And many of them are racists. Of course.
Wallis is a devout and well-intentioned Christian believer, but . . .
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A well reasoned, well thought out, and well written. One of a few people who have noticed that the segregation that existed until recently was anti-libertarian. It was segregation mandated by law. It was enforced by laws that restricted the free association of individuals. It was enforced by Democrats, most of whom could have been called “progressives.” Does anyone remember that Woodrow Wilson had all African-Americans fired from government jobs, many of whom had been hired in the (Teddy) Roosevelt and Taft Republican administrations?
Francis Schaeffer had Wallis’ type pegged forty years ago. He noted how the liberal and neo-orthodox tried to dress up pagan and humanist philosophy with Chrisitan words and symbols that actually had no meaning at all when one attempted to discern what was being said. Literally, wolves in sheep’s clothing. Willis is the classic example of this. You rarely hear emergents offer proof texts for what they are preaching. When they do it’s always a single verse stripped of all context - usually meaning the exact opposite of what it’s offered to prove. For example, Jesus never preached a collective ethic, his emphasis was always on the individual heart. He knew that collective institutions, ruled by wicked human hearts, could never accomplish anything for his kingdom. For man to progress he much change individually, one heart at a time. This was Jesus’ mission. The one time Jesus addressed politics was when he gave a major dressing down to the politicians of the time - the pharisees. (”Woe to you pharasees.....”)
“Tea” party.....the word “tea” should be in capital letters, TEA, because the letters TEA are short for the words “Taxed Enough Already!”
> That’s tantamount to a pyromaniac fireman.
Ironically, there is a larger percentage of pyromaniacs among firemen than in the general population.
Same for leftist “evangelicals”.
By the way, you can’t really be an “evangelical” at all, unless your PRIME DIRECTIVE is the Evangel, or The Gospel of Jesus Christ, *NOT* the false gospel of Marx.
Exaclty!
Jesus is an Absolute Monarch, *NOT* the chairman of a collectivist politburo.
The Monarchy of Christ is diametrically opposite the ostensible “egalitarianism” of collectivism.
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