SOME POINTS FROM AN OLD BIBLE-BELTER | 2008-03-22
I am not a good Christian in popular terms, but, as a Bible Belter, I have the common courtesy to tak people's faith seriously.
One commenter referred to clergymen who use the Bible to justify Political Correctness, as "cop-outs."
Let's call it by its name. This is not a cop-out. This is blasphemy. There is POWER in plain speaking.
I do not claim to have any religious authority. Those who do have assumed, in their and their follwers' minds, a massive responsibility. When I hammer on "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" I am expressing my own argument, nothing else. A clergyman has the right to say something is his opinion. But when he speaks for God as a representative of God, this takes on an entirely different character.
When CLERGYMEN who claim to be called by God state flatly that the latest dictuim of Political Correctness is what God wants, he is in a position I am NOT in.
If he truly believes what he says, that is one thing. But if his declaration is obviously to satfisfy the powers that be, that is straight blasphemy.
When Bob Jones IV saw that all the money men were going against the Confederate flag and joined them because he said GOD wanted it to come down, I caused a lot of protests from his followers by stating flatly that this was blasphemy, a term a Bible literalist should understand.
Jones quoted a passage from the New Testament which had been there for over a millenium and a half to justify his switch. That same passage had been there during the thirty years he supported the flag. He suddenly discovered it when he found that the money men could threaten his inherited family business.
That is not a cop-out, that is blasphemy..