"When, in fact, you don’t have to deconstruct your faith in favor of your politics. If you still want to participate in this “democratic” choice, at least observe that both candidates are pro-abortion ..."
One of the two candidates said during a Republican Primary debate in 2016 that his Supreme Court choices would likely tend toward the overthrowing of Roe vs. Wade. He was elected. He appointed (and saw confirmed) pro-Life SC Justices. Now, Roe vs. Wade has been overturned.
I would ask you to remember and be thankful for that. It means something. Children are alive who would have been murdered without that candidates actions.
"Those who urge against tradition that men in the past were ignorant may go and urge it at the Carlton Club, along with the statement that voters in the slums are ignorant. It will not do for us. If we attach great importance to the opinion of ordinary men in great unanimity when we are dealing with daily matters, there is no reason why we should disregard it when we are dealing with history or fable. Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father."
G. K. Chesterton, from Orthodoxy (IV - The Ethics of Elfland)
To a certain degree the current generation of exvangelicals is committing the same modernist hubris of believing that all of history has culminated in the present moment, that we here and now are the pinnacle of civilization. When I hear comments like, what can a book written 2000 years ago tell me about my life,” I always think, “well a lot actually.” In all honesty though, I think I accidentally fall under the category of exvangelical, but I love my parents and have so much respect for their life work as missionaries—even the years when my Dad was, gasp, an evangelist (I loved watching my dad preach and those memories are dear to me. And he did preach about hell, being an evangelist and all).
"The reason most exvangelicals aren’t worth listening to, on the whole, is because most of them cannot articulate the gospel. They confuse politics for faith but then accuse others of that sin. They lean over to pluck the shard of politics out of your eye and inadvertently bash you over the head with the entire godless assumption of progressivism."
A little push back on this point, Anne:
"When, in fact, you don’t have to deconstruct your faith in favor of your politics. If you still want to participate in this “democratic” choice, at least observe that both candidates are pro-abortion ..."
One of the two candidates said during a Republican Primary debate in 2016 that his Supreme Court choices would likely tend toward the overthrowing of Roe vs. Wade. He was elected. He appointed (and saw confirmed) pro-Life SC Justices. Now, Roe vs. Wade has been overturned.
I would ask you to remember and be thankful for that. It means something. Children are alive who would have been murdered without that candidates actions.
I was thrilled to your name pop up at Not the Bee! And this post is on fire--Take 6!!
"Those who urge against tradition that men in the past were ignorant may go and urge it at the Carlton Club, along with the statement that voters in the slums are ignorant. It will not do for us. If we attach great importance to the opinion of ordinary men in great unanimity when we are dealing with daily matters, there is no reason why we should disregard it when we are dealing with history or fable. Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father."
G. K. Chesterton, from Orthodoxy (IV - The Ethics of Elfland)
To a certain degree the current generation of exvangelicals is committing the same modernist hubris of believing that all of history has culminated in the present moment, that we here and now are the pinnacle of civilization. When I hear comments like, what can a book written 2000 years ago tell me about my life,” I always think, “well a lot actually.” In all honesty though, I think I accidentally fall under the category of exvangelical, but I love my parents and have so much respect for their life work as missionaries—even the years when my Dad was, gasp, an evangelist (I loved watching my dad preach and those memories are dear to me. And he did preach about hell, being an evangelist and all).
"The reason most exvangelicals aren’t worth listening to, on the whole, is because most of them cannot articulate the gospel. They confuse politics for faith but then accuse others of that sin. They lean over to pluck the shard of politics out of your eye and inadvertently bash you over the head with the entire godless assumption of progressivism."
On target!