Monday, July 31, 2006

Conservative Pastor Punished For Avoiding Politics

After advocating that the church essentially stay out of partisan politics, pastors in his own denomination, the Baptist General Conference, mounted an effort to evict him from the denomination.

It is a small world - Pastor Brad at 21st Century Reformation just posted on the same controversial topic, followed by an even more in-depth post further expanding his ideas (also posted at redbluechristian). Theocracy is a bad thing - only, pastor Brad says it much better than I ever could. Of course, that could be because I'm and Atheist and he's a pastor.

Pastor Brad posted in large part because of an argument er... make that a discussion, we had last week. My position is that the Conservative theocracy is dangerous and must be opposed by Christians who recognize the danger. Atheists have no credibility inside the Christian community; they can only say "look at the problem". Other Christians can say "this is wrong". So Pastor Brad has said its wrong - I wonder how long it will take before the backlash starts?

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