Jesus did not say “Go into all the world and teach those pagans how to behave.” As C.S. Lewis would put it, did Jesus ask for “nice people or new men”? Not only is it pointless to legislate morality in immoral people, it is damaging to the message of Christianity, for in so doing we convey the idea that good behavior is all that God requires. We would have to try very hard, I think, to propagate a more dangerous heresy than this.
The whole thing for me is in effect a meditation on what it means to do for others what you would have them do for you applied to interfaith and intergroup relationships in a modern democratic state. Helpful.
Advanced Comp: Christian Political Activism � Radical Congruency:
Filed in: Christian, morality, politics, power, freedom, gospel
No comments:
Post a Comment