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The church has fallen into a therapeutic model, says one prominent evangelical. In an interview with Time magazine, Chuck Colson denounced the “feel-good kind of Christianity” he sees being promoted in churches.
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If Obama, with his Muslim family ties and openness, cannot get a respectful hearing by Middle Eastern Muslims, we have to ask ourselves: What do they really want?
The answer, of course, is plain—the destruction of Israel.
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If you want to undermine religion, a good place to start is the dictionary. Just remove the words that refer to Christianity. Wait a minute…it’s already being done!
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A prominent religious leader recently said that sex, however pleasurable it might be in the short run, leads to long-term trouble. He argued that celibacy is the way that leads to “more freedom.” –
Chuck Colson at the Christian Post comments For example, Christianity also commends celibacy. The apostle Paul
wrote that whereas a married man is anxious about “how to please his
wife,” the “unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord.”
The avoidance of what Paul called “division of interest” is why
Catholic priests are celibate.
But while both religions have a place for celibacy, their
reasons are very different. For starters, in Christianity, celibacy
isn’t chosen for the sake of the individual’s peace of mind. Nor to be
detached from the world. Instead, it is something a person chooses to
do for the sake of the Kingdom of God as a way to better serve God and
his neighbor.
In addition, while Christianity acknowledges that marriage and
family are full of “complications” and “ups and downs” that can cause
suffering, it proclaims their goodness and sanctity.
Whereas in Buddhism, salvation consists of “becoming
indifferent to the world, which is the source of evil,” in
Christianity, “the world is God’s good creation, redeemed by Christ.”
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The communitarian view of morality as a work in progress draws heavily from Hegel’s concept of the dialectic, in which a “thesis” generates an “antithesis,” and these two are resolved in a “synthesis.” Communitarian “consensus-building” exercises dilute the “white” of Bible-based morality until it is a shade of gray suitable for the needs of collectivist social policy.
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William Norman Grigg at Christian Newswire comments In the meantime, however, communitarians are working to capture the future in
the public schools, and thanks to Haynes and his comrades, they’re making
unwitting allies out of at least some conservative Christian activists and
leaders (including notables like Chuck Colson of the Prison Fellowship) who
support the Bible Literacy Project - as if it were the only suitable vehicle for
classroom moral instruction.
There is an alternative. The National
Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (NCBCPS) offers a course used by
more than 1,900 schools in 38 states. Unlike the BLP, the Bible Curriculum
program is not intended to evangelize on behalf of a political dogma. It teaches
the Bible on its own terms and documents its central role in Western history.
This includes an unflinching treatment of the Bible’s influence on America’s
unique civic institutions and culture of liberty under law.
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CBS is nostalgic this summer for the good old days that never existed. The network’s summer series Swingtown examines the lives of three suburban couples in 1976 and their experiences with drugs and “swinging”—or, what was called then, “wife swapping.” –
Chuck Colson at Crosswalk comments Before I go on, you must know that this is a commentary in which I
express my outrage not only over the filth spewed out by the networks,
but on the tragedy of the so-called sexual revolution.
The show was portraying something that never existed. Sure, swinging
and drug abuse were part and parcel of the sixties and seventies. But Swingtown
would have you believe that swinging and drugs were not just “cool” and
“fun,” but were also without consequences. The characters of Swingtown behave as if their openness to these experiences keeps their marriages fresh and healthy. Total rubbish.