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Old 10-19-2006, 10:05 PM
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Default Evangelicals waking up (and evangelical pathology)

Interesting article here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101801681.html

On the one hand...

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Broadening the agenda, "not to 99 things but to five or six core things," such as fighting poverty and providing aid to Africa, "helps improve our image and more accurately reflects the full panoply of our beliefs," Jackson said. "It's hard to say that those two things -- abortion and gay marriage -- are the only things God had in mind in the Bible."
On the other...

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"I definitely don't like the widening of the agenda, because it muddies the water," said the Rev. Michael Haseltine, pastor of the 2,000-member Maranatha Assembly of God Church in Forest Lake, Minn.

"Be good stewards of the environment? Sure, but how? These tree-huggers and anti-hunters think it's terrible to kill animals. Oppose poverty? Sure, but what's the best way to do it? We can't solve everybody's problems for them," he said. "Family and life issues -- abortion, sexuality -- they're much more clear from the biblical standpoint."
There you have it... if it isn't clear, just ignore it and it will go away.

Funny how he forgot to say, "And those other issues make us look in the mirror instead of at a horrible group of other people (and they don't raise as much money either)."

Sorry, not feeling very nonviolent tonight

James
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