End of Christianity...

**christianscientology** · April 6th, 2011, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by R13

Many conservative Christians believe they have lost the battles over issues such as abortion, school prayer and even same-sex marriage, and that the country has now entered a post-Christian phase. Christopher Hitchens ?a friend and possibly the most charming provocateur you will ever meet?wrote a hugely popular atheist tract a few years ago, "God Is Not Great." As an observant (if deeply flawed) Episcopalian, I disagree with many of Hitchens's arguments?I do not think it is productive to dismiss religious belief as superstitious and wrong?but he is a man of rigorous intellectual honesty who, on a recent journey to Texas, reported hearing evangelical mutterings about the advent of a "post-Christian" America.

I am really fed up of people who claim that the World or Christianity "Is Coming to an End," just because they have failed to achieve their own narrow-minded goals. Where did Jesus Command us to interfere in the lives of Sinners?

Why should Christians be distressed that Unbelievers want to abort their own offspring? It is the spawn of the Unbeliever being killed, not their own children! It is their own population that they are reducing, not those of Christians!

Why should Christians want Unbelievers to pray in school, or even for their own children to pray in school- when Jesus taught- nay, Commanded us to pray at home, in our private closets?

As for same-sex marriage- since it is too disgusting to comfortably think about, why think about it? What business is it of ours' what deviant activity people who do not believe in what we believe do?

Many wannabe Christians have been co-opted by people who want to meddle in other peoples' affairs, and feel themselves very powerful by legislating Righteousness.
King Herod and Pontius Pilate were doing a number of sinful and immoral things. Why didn't Jesus, the Lord of The Church, set the example by fighting against them, even at the very least preaching against what evil they were doing? Why didn't he campaign for John the Baptist's release (who was jailed because he pointed out that Herod and Herodias were committing adultery- as if it were his business).:doh:

Yet we see all these Social Reformer Crusading Christians exhibiting zero Spiritual Power- which, if it were written in a Book 2,000 years old, would have prompted them to theologically point out: "Well, you see, this person could not perform Miracles, because God did not approve of their self-made ministry!"