After all these years of wrestling and wrangling with my pastors about what it means to be a Christian, it turns out I was supposed to agree with everything they said or plant my posterior in a different pew.
What? Do I have the wrong Bible? Again?
If I always agreed with my pastors, that would mean I would have a better relationship with Pastor Kate and Pastor Woody than with the children I've raised, the friends I've made and the man I married.
I dunno. There ...
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Posted by: Bill Fidurski
Comment: #1
Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:45 AM
In "Oh, Those Pesky Preachers," Connie Schultz offers a clever juggling of
religion and politics, normally rejected by the media, but now convenient to
provide cover for Barack Obama's spiritual adviser of the last twenty years.
But, religion relates to faith issues like telling the husband of the church
organist not to sleep with the clerk at the bowling alley.
Politics involves things like making unfounded statements to trusting Blacks
that the United States government is using AIDS to kill Black people. Creation
of this sort of urban myth is like pulling a fire alarm that condemns
American race relations for another 150 years.
Similarly political is saying that America "supported state terrorism against
the Palestinians" to justify the attacks on 9-11-01. The implied alternative
would allow Muslims to overrun Israel.
Likewise political is the right of people to know if a potential President of
the United States supports a church that encourages the singing of "God Damn
America."
But, what does Obama expect from "a typical white person"?
Obama fails to realize that "God Bless America" evokes tears from Honolulu to
Boston because all Americans are ultimately and inseparably bonded in mutual
pain and pride.
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Posted by: Bethany Smothers
Comment: #2
Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:46 PM
Thank you for saying something reasonable. Sheesh. I was beginning to believe that stupidity had completely taken over.
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Posted by: robert j therriault
Comment: #3
Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:38 AM
Thanks Connie
Pastors and Faith and Supplicants are quite an entangled mess. I think the "unlimited sympathies and limited certainties" might be the only way a rational person should view it. Even trying to untangle it all may end up getting us into more trouble than we started with.
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