TM;
This idea of "Christianity hijacked" is not believeable to most anybody with Biblical knowledge. Probably the only ones we find believing that would be the same one who bought, read and swallowed the work of fiction called "The Da Vinci code". Here was a yarn... new to some, which has through the centuries been revived, believed by a few, then proven untrue put to bed for another hundred years or so. Some conspiracy addicts cling a bit longer however.
You then in post #30 try to present "references" to "prove" your contention..so you dig up a few blogs by malcontents who simply babble anti-christian spew, with nothing to back it up !
At one point you refer to the Washington Post and a writer named Covert I. King, who spouts on and on about the "Christian Right"...almost none of which bears any relationship to the truth. I and others here a site better judge of the Christian right than he, simply because he is not one.
Do you recall the story of the 3 blind men who tried to describe an elephant, while one had hold of a leg, the other a hold on the tail and the third a tusk ? That is just how much accuracy CI King has here....
Here is what he said at one point (my corrections in color)..
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" And that's just it. Americans of faith -- and those lacking one --he prefers fellowship with unbelievers.. ought to vigorously resist attempts by power-hungry zealots to impose their religious views nobody imposing; take it or leave it on the nation. That means standing up to them at every turn..Fine, let's debate, using the Bible as the authority.
It means challenging them when they say of Americans who support a woman's right to choose..you mean 'right to kill', (Prov 31:8,9); the right of two adults to enter into a loving, committed, state-sanctioned, monogamous relationship; homosexuality an abomination, see (Romans 1:24-28) the right to pursue science in support of life ummmm, taking the life of embryonic boys & girls; the right of the aggrieved to launch aggressive assaults against racism, sexism and homophobia, that they are not legitimate members of the flock racism, sexism & homophobia Who's definition?. Where do those on the religious right get off thinking they have the right to decide who is in and who is out..who is in and out of what ?? Who appointed them sole promoters and defenders of the faith? The BIBLE is the final arbiter of the faith..he who stays closer to the Bible is closer to the faith! What makes them think they are more holy and righteous than the rest of us? Certainly we are no more holy than anybody,closer to the TRUTH perhaps...As far as righteous..whoever adheres to the Bible closer, is obviously the more correct !
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Then TM; in your efforts to PROVE Christianity has been "hijacked"..you turn to an ISLAMIC BOOKSTORE..for an attack on Christ book by an author named AL HAJ, and a publisher named A.D. Ajijola...
NOW THAT"S REALLY A "FAIR & BALANCED" CRITIQUE OF CHRISTIANITY !! First a practical unbeliever and second some Imam..cursing Christ !