Further reflection
May. 2nd, 2005 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosMaybe I'm being naive. Maybe the evangelical core is a huge chunk of this nation. I just read all 12 pages of For the Health of the Nation, basically an evangelical manifesto. But you know what? I agree with almost all of it. Who doesn't want peace, clean air and water, healthy family life (ignoring the anti-gay part), less disparity between rich and poor, and so on? And yet.
The document is theologically sound and well written. I have a distinctly different view on Christian anthropology, the use and interpretation of scripture, and the vision of Jesus than do the authors of the aforementioned document. I also think that everyone should vote their conscience. Even James Dobson and Jerry Falwell. And that's where it gets wierd. Because people like that are the bigwigs behind this document. The statement is rather bland and in my opinion doesn't go far enough. I mean, who's going to condemn Wal-mart for its social, economic, and environmental policies when the Wal-mart founders are the same stripe of Christian? This call to ethics is weak and only gives lipserive to the goals presented. Those that push this agenda are the ones that cause me to stand in worry and, more and more often, fear with my sisters and brothers not in Christ, my fellow Americans and human beings who don't want a creepy "God/mamon" hybrid dispensing our rights.
The document is theologically sound and well written. I have a distinctly different view on Christian anthropology, the use and interpretation of scripture, and the vision of Jesus than do the authors of the aforementioned document. I also think that everyone should vote their conscience. Even James Dobson and Jerry Falwell. And that's where it gets wierd. Because people like that are the bigwigs behind this document. The statement is rather bland and in my opinion doesn't go far enough. I mean, who's going to condemn Wal-mart for its social, economic, and environmental policies when the Wal-mart founders are the same stripe of Christian? This call to ethics is weak and only gives lipserive to the goals presented. Those that push this agenda are the ones that cause me to stand in worry and, more and more often, fear with my sisters and brothers not in Christ, my fellow Americans and human beings who don't want a creepy "God/mamon" hybrid dispensing our rights.