They still care about abortion but want to emphasize a broader range of issues. They want to present a different and, they say, less judgmental face to the world.
~ABC News, June 20, reporting that certain young Christian activists would rather focus on “educational inequality, poverty, genocide prevention and nuclear non-proliferation.”
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“They still care about abortion but want to emphasize a broader range of issues. They want to present a different and, they say, less judgmental face to the world.”
Insert the word ‘slavery’ or ‘extermination of the Jews’ in the place where ‘abortion’ is in the above statement and you have the same feel good New Age ‘christianity’ that is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Abortion is genocide. Abortion hasn’t stopped other issues but in fact fuels the fire for many of the other issues these certain young activists would rather focus on.
It’s all about following what works best for them.
Praxedes,
I agree with you.
People, if you’re not ALIVE, not much else really matters. We need to save the baby humans. I think the world would look favorably upon us for taking up that cause. Maybe the countries of the world don’t want U.S. intervention into every corner of their lives. We never seem to consider that fact. Who’s really being judgmental?
Historically, the majority of the church didn’t view slavery as an issue, either. Lots of slave owners were church members. Complacency and apathy to the plight of those viewed as “sub human” has never been isolated to one generation.
BTW, the video of these people pretty much made me nauseous. We have become a people who are so afraid to offend that we essentially don’t take a stand for “what is moral” anymore. We’re totally willing to follow Bono’s causes to the ends of the earth, but we forget the cause of Christ right here at home.
One thing to point out – the sentence everyone seems to be upset with isn’t a quote from anyone but rather something inserted by the author of the article. If you read the whole thing and take out that sentence, it reads a lot differently.
Hey Ex-GOP,
I realize what was wrote by who. I saw these young people on TV the night before this was even posted. My statement was based on my reaction to what these young people said on TV which is the same as what the author wrote.
Thanks for your sincere concern that we may have been misled. Please be open-minded to those who point out to you that you have been misled.
Hey, Praxedes – pull the attack dogs back a little, my goodness.
Was it a different clip on air then what was on the video in the article? Again, I don’t see where anyone said anything offensive.
I’m not saying anyone was misled – they just seem to care about Christianity, not just Republican Christianity. Nothing wrong with that.
Hey, Ex-GOP – the dogs are sleeping and have never been trained to attack, my goodness.
In my world, Christianity has never been divided into Republican or Democratic or based on hot-button issues as yours seems to be.
This group has not come up with any new plan for Christianity — they’re just starting to figure out the plan that has been there all along. However, Christian plans shouldn’t require one to put the killing of people on the back burner because you don’t want to judge the killers while you go on fighting for other important but not as deadly issues. Like Janet pointed out, if your not ALIVE, these issues won’t matter anyway.
Prax – maybe I missed it in the video where somebody said to put it on the back-burner – let me know at what time in the video that is. I only heard that they wanted to be defined beyond those two issues, which is a fair statement.