East of Eden
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The point that was made, and to which I responded with the "character in post 51" was that an awful lot of people have been driven away from Christianity by such folks. Sadly, my children are among that group, and I take full responsibility for subjecting them to the kind of preaching that tends to drive people away. Slobbering, Bible-thumping, screaming polyesther suits yelling about how mad God is at you because you didn't give the preacher his tithe least week. Warnings of the coming of the Anti-Christ and a bunch of drivel about how sinful it is to go to movies, have long hair on men and short hair on women.
Children don't respond well to that.
I have to wonder how different things might have turned out if our family had been blessed to be part of the Orthodox parish in Harrisburg. If they had heard about the God who is "the lover of mankind" instead of the angry God who is looking for every fault you have so that He can spank you. I suppose that some folks think that all that hellfire and brimstone preaching is a good way to scare people into the Kingdom.
Well, Jesus did speak quite a lot on hell. Finding the balance is the tricky part, IMHO the churches today focus mostly on love, leaving out God's justice and holiness, so we have a lot of Christians who live little different than the world.
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