It does seem like a deliberately distributed talking point, doesn't it? Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, along with others known to be lefties, used that term instead of Christians in their tweets about he Sri Lanka massacre, to the point that it hardly seems to fit the hundred-monkeys-with-typewriters-coming-up-with-Shakespeare model.
I'm sympathetic to Erick Erickson's two main points, that had the lefties been silent, Christians, especially the subset known as Trumpists with chips on their shoulders, who rarely have more to contribute to society's polemical discourse than pointing up leftist folly, would have expressed an even greater degree of outrage, and that this whole thing is pretty minor compared to the actual horror that is at the core of what's being discussed.
Still, "Easter worshippers" does seem pretty weak. Christians were targeted in Sri Lanka with the same specificity as Muslims in New Zealand recently, and all the lefties were puking all over themselves to "stand in solidarity" in that matter.
Real Christianity - as expressed in the Apostles' Creed - is under attack by entities ranging from radical Muslims to the Chinese government to mainstream Protestantism to the San Antonio City Council.
Christians make an easier target for the Western civilization-destroyers than they used to, since dwindling numbers of people attend church or ever crack a Bible.
So some context is important to bring to the conversation. It's almost as if the "Easter worshippers" bunch is saying, "Don't get me wrong. I personally don't go in for that quaint, antiquated stuff, but it seems to have some kind of community-building effect, and they're generally nice people - that is, until you get them going on that 'sin' stuff."
For leftists to call them Christians comes just a little too close to acknowledging Christians' certainty that their doctrine is the truth.
That's just way too absolutist for those who have a vested interest in keeping everything relative, so no one has a solid answer to the question, "What's wrong with the government having all the power?"
With the disunited Methodists and 2 Popes discoursing in different directions, I have a feeling that a major petition to the Lord in the creed, expressed as belief in one holy catholic ** and apostolic church is falling upon supernatural ears as deaf as ever. **universal
ReplyDeleteIt would seem that way. Although there are fervent prayers being offered around the world the reception of which we cannot ascertain with much certainty.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame the young or anyone else who eschews church attendance or even belief. Blame ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI myself held out until the last few years, and the reason was that most of the evangelical outreach I'd ever encountered struck me as egregiously boneheaded and irrelevant to my life.
ReplyDeleteThe political promotion of Christianity appears to repel more people than it attracts
ReplyDeleteWhat is "the political promotion of Christianity?"
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