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The Christian Right is Helping Drive Liberals Away From Religion
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<blockquote data-quote="carp614" data-source="post: 74308779" data-attributes="member: 386520"><p>This is hogwash. I attend a very conservative evangelical church. I have never once hear the pastor or any member of his staff vilify the sinner. </p><p></p><p>There are idiots out there masquerading as pastors who preach hate and are <em>not</em> preaching the Gospel at all (e.g. Westborough Baptist Church comes to mind immediately). Those people are lunatic fringe and they do not represent the truth of the Gospel or the majority of the religious right. They are painted as if they are the majority but <em>they are not</em>. This notion that the religious right is driving people away from church is the equivalent of shooting the wrong messenger. Truth is truth, sin is sin, and those crazies are not the religious right. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Someone who believes abortion is an individual human right or homosexuality is just how they were born <em>will be offended</em> by someone saying that these things are a sin against God. It is that offense, offense to the reality of sin that is driving people away from some churches, not "the religious right".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="carp614, post: 74308779, member: 386520"] This is hogwash. I attend a very conservative evangelical church. I have never once hear the pastor or any member of his staff vilify the sinner. There are idiots out there masquerading as pastors who preach hate and are [I]not[/I] preaching the Gospel at all (e.g. Westborough Baptist Church comes to mind immediately). Those people are lunatic fringe and they do not represent the truth of the Gospel or the majority of the religious right. They are painted as if they are the majority but [I]they are not[/I]. This notion that the religious right is driving people away from church is the equivalent of shooting the wrong messenger. Truth is truth, sin is sin, and those crazies are not the religious right. Someone who believes abortion is an individual human right or homosexuality is just how they were born [I]will be offended[/I] by someone saying that these things are a sin against God. It is that offense, offense to the reality of sin that is driving people away from some churches, not "the religious right". [/QUOTE]
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