tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609203224961032874.post721740401651498031..comments2024-03-01T10:10:40.165-07:00Comments on Speak the Truth in Love: Christians And TrumpRandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751516602395247675noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609203224961032874.post-68262414512414187162016-12-31T09:49:54.005-07:002016-12-31T09:49:54.005-07:00Thanks. I do agree with most of what you said. I d...Thanks. I do agree with most of what you said. I don't know that it is always deliberate. There are so many atheists it is hard to generalise. Also, the phrase "foaming hatred" seem a bit harsh. I get where you are coming from. Sometimes they are pretty angry when all they know about you is that you are Christian. Still many express their negative feelings differently. <br /><br />I do think it will help if Christians today are known as lovers of peace. So many Christians supporting the party that has gotten us into bad wars is particularly damaging. At a minimum we need to disassociate ourselves with the violent parts of their platform. I know many Christians vote Republican because of the abortion issue and that is a good thing. Yet we need to make clear the Republicans are not getting blank cheque from us on the reset of public policy. Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16751516602395247675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609203224961032874.post-34491126610068028882016-12-30T17:40:14.093-07:002016-12-30T17:40:14.093-07:00Good post. "The New Atheist associated Chris...Good post. "The New Atheist associated Christianity with violence and with a lack of intelligence." Yes, they do, but I think it is a two-step thing. First point, the New Atheists are specifically Christian-oriented atheists. They explicitly reject Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. They're not out explicitly rejecting, say, Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians, if they've even heard of him. It's Jesus the Christ and His Church whom they don't like. And so, the second step: they deliberately blur all "religions" together, Anglicanism to Zoroastrianism and everything in between, so that when they see something they don't like, say violent Islamicist terrorism, they can use that to slag Christianity with, because "all religions are the same." But always it is Christianity that is the true target of their foaming hatred. It's not Sikhism or the Bahá'í Faith that they want to discredit. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com