It tries the soul to believe otherwise when we read the following:"Sarah, you’re the one who is acting in an "evil" way."Those words of Christian charity are from Jim Wallis, the CEO of Sojourners, commenting on former Governor Sarah Palin's recent Facebook statements on ObamaCare. And just what exactly is Sojourners, some may ask? It is an evangelical Christian ministry that preaches radical leftwing politics:
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"Politics for people like you is really all about you, your fame and power, and your taste of it during the last election has revealed what kind of politician you truly are."
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"Please don’t invoke your 'Christian faith' anymore and embarrass the people of God even further. May your efforts to scare Americans during this important debate fail. May your political future also fail, and may your star fall as fast as it rose just a few months ago — because we now know who you really are."
As one of its first acts, Sojourners formed a commune in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Southern Columbia Heights. Members shared their finances, participated in various activist campaigns, and organized events at both the neighborhood and national levels.Ah, community organizers. That explains a lot.
The themes of these campaigns, echoed monthly in the pages of the group's in-house publication Sojourners, centered on attacking U.S. foreign policy, denouncing American "imperialism," and extolling Marxist revolutionary movements in the Third World.Holy Sandinista, Batman!
In the 1980s the Sojourners community actively embraced "liberation theology," rallying to the cause of communist regimes that had seized power especially in Latin America, with the promise of bringing about the revolutionary restructuring of society.So it is somehow "Christian" to embrace those who reject God in favor of Karl Marx? Now that's what we call a world-class feat of rationalization.
The ministry also reviled welfare reform as a "mean-spirited Republican agenda" characterized by "hatred toward the poor" and mounted a defense of affirmative action.We guess some only get out of scripture what they bring to it. We've studied the Good Book quite extensively, and we can find no evidence that Jesus put his trust in Caesar to feed the hungry or to heal the sick. In fact, He showed a stubborn determination to just do it Himself.
Sojourners is a member organization of the Win Without War and United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalitions. It condemns the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where several hundred terrorist suspects are being held by the U.S. government.Meanwhile the colleagues of those detainees are treating Christians in their home lands in much the same manner as the pre-Constantine Romans did. No lions, mind you, but plenty of beheadings, hackings, burnings, stonings, etc. But it's not the terrorists' fault, according to what passes for Sojourner thought. Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, explains:
Jim Wallis' Sojourners is not usually very anxious to spotlight the plight of persecuted Christians around the world, tormented by Islamist or communist regimes. But in its few references to problems for Christians, it will evade blaming the actual tormentors and inevitably fault the ultimate culprits: the U.S., Israel, the West, and their allies.Returning to those pesky scriptures again, we learn that Jesus rejected the efforts of the zealots to recruit him for their political cause. The Savior constantly had to remind his apostles that He was not of this world, and it was the Next World which was His concern.
Posting on the Wesley Report, Shane Raynor:
Imagine what would happen if a prominent Christian conservative issued a written "prophetic" proclamation cursing the political future of a top Democratic politician. Such an action would be widely ridiculed and the incident would find a place in the headlines of every national newscast. But suppose a Christian leader pronounced a curse on a Republican's political career? Well, if it's Jim Wallis cursing Sarah Palin, apparently no one cares and Wallis gets a pass.Raynor poses a question that the so-called Progressive Left cannot answer:
Where's the Christian charity (and civility) in his proclamation to Sarah Palin?That's because there is none there to be found. "Christian progressives" are too wrapped up in the cares of this world, embracing such heresy as Marxist Liberation Theology to have time for bourgeois notions like Christian charity, be it for Sarah Palin or any other Christian who does not follow their trek down the radical path of false prophesy.
Leftist evengelicals are determined to fuse the matter of Marxism with the anti-matter of Christianity, forgetting what the result is when the two come in contact.
- JP
I've been out of the loop for a few weeks and am just catching up on all the Sarah news including her "death panels" comment.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that Sarah was actually advocating FOR the vulnerable and the voiceless ones (those whom Sojouners claims to stand with), the elderly, the frail, the severely hadicapped, those with Down's, etc.
Down the road when the costs of Obamacare become overwhelming, you think it won't be suggested to these folk and their loved ones that maybe, just maybe,they ought to forgo
expensive treatment in order to "save" those who are more "productive" members of society?
Can you imagine the pressure, subtle and not-so-subtle, to just "let them go" and not burden the system any longer? That's what those "end-of-life" consultations would become. They would
soon change from being "at request" to "required". Thank God for Sarah. She knows the human heart. She know's what's up and what these "end-of-life" consulations will become. Thank God she had the courage to say it.
After all, the value of a life, according to Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel is in what it contributes economically to society. This is what is really scary and evil, a strictly utilitarian value of life. And it's there in high places of the Obama administration. Wallis and Sojouners need to be asked what they think of Emmauel's philosophy.
Wow, I've known of Wallis for years and I've been on and off again with him. But now I'm permanently off. Thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteReligious left? People who normally are religous have morals, yet liberals don't have morals. They attack people who exercise morality. They call them bible thumpers and holly roller etc. The ACLU is a leftist group that goes after Christianity whenever possilbe. Bottom line, liberal christiainity is an oxymoron and then some.
ReplyDelete"we learn that Jesus rejected the efforts of the zealots to recruit him..."
ReplyDeleteIndeed he did. Perhaps that why the fortunes of the Religious Right in America have taken a turn for the worst. Jesus is tired of being used.