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Pentz
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Posted 5/1/2006 12:05 AM (GMT -6)

This is an article from September 2005 edition of Harpers. Your thoughts.

http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptTheChristianParadox.html

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Sahid
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Posted 5/1/2006 2:10 AM (GMT -6)

I liked it at first, but toward the end... I guess passing laws that force truly Christian values rather than pagan-dressed-up-as-Christian values is a good first step. Taxes, for example. A rich person should give almost all he or she has to the poor. Sure. But is a Christian thing to force them to give? I can image Jesus telling a rich man to give everything away. I just can't imagine Jesus threatening that man with a prison sentence. (I do believe that the Son of Man will come with a sword, but that's another thing.)

If we assume that it is the Christian citizen's job to vote in such a way that people in the polis are made to act like Christians, then the article makes perfect sense. But, alas, that is a Constantinian, anti-Christian assumption. Jesus does not impose Christianity and neither should those who would be his disciples.

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

PotOnWheel
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Posted 5/1/2006 8:44 AM (GMT -6)

Thanks for the link, Pentz.

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