Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Apparently, God Is A Bad Guy
Last week's great debate (remaining unnamed to honor the still living) was, at least if you believe a lot of pundits, driven by bigoted, stupid religious people, as if "bigoted" and "stupid" were synomomous with "religious." Maureen Dowd worried it to death last week, and Frank Rich spoke up on it yesterday (HT: Radioblogger) as just a few examples, pieces sounding this theme seem to be e everywhere.
I can sort of understand this vitriol if your are a died-in-the-wool atheist, but most of the people writing this stuff claim a religious affiliation of one sort or the other. That's really sad. That means that they keep their faith completely compartmentalized in a tiny corner of their being, never to affect their political thinking, or worse yet, they consider the church a convenient social institution without any real truth associated. But most of all they have to think God is a bad guy.
Mark Daniels addresses some of the issues related to people in church that do not necessarily believe in his Easter post.
If I believe in a good and gracious God, how could I believe that His designs should have no affect on the rest of my life or the nation's life?
Evangelical Outpost nails Andrew Sullivan to the wall on a post he did along the same God is bad lines.
I will be accused of being cliched, but we just need to pray for such people. I am not offended by this stuff, just saddened that people would have such an image of God.
I can sort of understand this vitriol if your are a died-in-the-wool atheist, but most of the people writing this stuff claim a religious affiliation of one sort or the other. That's really sad. That means that they keep their faith completely compartmentalized in a tiny corner of their being, never to affect their political thinking, or worse yet, they consider the church a convenient social institution without any real truth associated. But most of all they have to think God is a bad guy.
Mark Daniels addresses some of the issues related to people in church that do not necessarily believe in his Easter post.
If I believe in a good and gracious God, how could I believe that His designs should have no affect on the rest of my life or the nation's life?
Evangelical Outpost nails Andrew Sullivan to the wall on a post he did along the same God is bad lines.
I will be accused of being cliched, but we just need to pray for such people. I am not offended by this stuff, just saddened that people would have such an image of God.
