DISQUS

amphikalein · 1 year ago

As a Christian, i have a really hard time identifying what Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Scarborough, and Mr. Boykin promote as even remotely Christian. It looks more like the reduction of a path of faith into a political movement that values unthinking support for a radical Dominionist agenda rather than what the Christ of the Gospels actually calls his followers to do.

chupacabra · 1 year ago

Great. Radical Islam versus Radical Christianity. And all us heathens stuck in the middle of it all.

pari · 1 year ago

I'm very glad to read amphikalein comment. It seems to me that any Christian who values the teachings of Jesus would pretty darn mortified right now.

Generosity, love, compassion, charity . . . where are these evident in the current "Christian Right?"

new_mexican · 1 year ago

"Conservative Christian leader Rick Scarborough, the founder of Vision America, made it clear Thursday that no candidates were to be endorsed. Vision America is a 501c3 nonprofit, he said."

I am glad he is keeping this in mind, because of this I subsidize this outfit.

"the family as being one man ideally with one woman for life" Ideally?

No matter how much lipstick you put on this "nonpolitical pig" It is still a political rally.

katestone · 1 year ago

Before I moved to Santa Fe I was a neighbor of Baldwin's in Nyack, NY where he could always be seen holding forth in the local Starbucks. He was an outgoing guy, real loud and energetic. Baldwin always made certain everyone knew he was there but he was catching a plane "to the coast" the next day. He got religion after 9/11 and one of the first things he did was lead the charge to close down an "adult store" that was opening in a tacky strip mall outside the Village. I didn't have a problem with closing it down but Baldwin made it a religious crusade and was startng to look at bit nutty, wailing and praying in the parking lot of the proposed site. I see from this piece that Baldwin has greatly expanded his evangelical role and has taken it on the road with radical fervor. I suspect that acting jobs are few and far between now. Alec is the far better actor in that family.

pari · 1 year ago

I watch the evangelical television stations from time to time and, lately, there's an incredible upsurge of "celebrities" who've found this version of God.

To me, it's kind of like the form of Buddhism that focuses on chanting for what you want. How can you be detached and still want anything?

How can you be a "good Christian" and spend your time denigrating those who don't agree with you?

I just don't get it.

conservawhat · 1 year ago

Pro Life? What about the death penalty? What about bombing Iraqis and Afghanis? Life is life.

Maybe these fatcat preachers should be reminded that Jesus said: Its easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven.