A recent article in the Wall Street Journal under “Generation
Gap” caught my eye: EVENGELICAL LEADER PREACHES A PULLBACK FROM POLITICS,
CULTURE WARS by Neil King, Jr. (October 22, 2013).
In the near past, Evangelicals were all about screaming
against abortion, gay marriage and for prayer in schools and other
unconstitutional issues.
There are now new voices in the SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
such as Russell Moore of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
He, like Pope Francis wants to get away from the political
and cultural battle going on and concentrate on INCLUSIVENESS and not
EXCLUSIVENESS.
This is happening mainly because young people are
progressive thinking and all about inclusiveness and are leaving these
mainstream churches in droves; if the Catholic Church and the Evangelicals
(Southern Baptists) want to survive into the near future, they need to change
their tone and their emphasis.
I find this especially interesting because even though
church dogma still remains in opposition to homosexuality, gay marriage,
abortion and in the Catholic Church, contraception, it has to be de-emphasized
as in not of fundamental importance as far as the human race is concerned.
People are practicing their lives as they see fit and if
religion stands in opposition to what normal people think and practice in their
daily lives, than those religions will die; if no one is listening who are you
preaching to…
We are truly living in historical times…
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