Check out this editorial (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich.html?em&ex=1210046400&en=1ab063165842695f&ei=5087%0A) from the New York Times pointing out that the true dialogue on race in this country has not even begun in politics. I would go further and say that the issue of race is not nearly as large as that of theology. McCain’s connection to John Hagee, whose end times views are wrapped up in moralism and literalism, doesn’t really cause the same kind of outrage as Wright, who blamed Sept. 11 not on American immorality (homosexuality, abortion etc.) but on American foreign policy. But aren’t these both issues of immorality?
Why do many American Christians stop short of carrying the issue of immorality to governmental practices and societal institutions? Now we are seeing the unfortunate results of a theology that reduces Christ’s redemption to the saving of an individual from his/her sins. Conservative Republican administrations are exempt as long as the head of that administration is "saved". African-American Christians know the societal implications of sin. They know firsthand from the slave experience that "good Christian men" are capable of doing very unChristian things when they are caught up in an unChristian system (economic, political etc.).
grant
May 04 2008
07:28 pm
Check out this editorial (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich.html?em&ex=1210046400&en=1ab063165842695f&ei=5087%0A) from the New York Times pointing out that the true dialogue on race in this country has not even begun in politics. I would go further and say that the issue of race is not nearly as large as that of theology. McCain’s connection to John Hagee, whose end times views are wrapped up in moralism and literalism, doesn’t really cause the same kind of outrage as Wright, who blamed Sept. 11 not on American immorality (homosexuality, abortion etc.) but on American foreign policy. But aren’t these both issues of immorality?
Why do many American Christians stop short of carrying the issue of immorality to governmental practices and societal institutions? Now we are seeing the unfortunate results of a theology that reduces Christ’s redemption to the saving of an individual from his/her sins. Conservative Republican administrations are exempt as long as the head of that administration is "saved". African-American Christians know the societal implications of sin. They know firsthand from the slave experience that "good Christian men" are capable of doing very unChristian things when they are caught up in an unChristian system (economic, political etc.).