Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Sojourners
FrontPage writer Mark D. Tooley takes a look at Sojourners at the Faithful Democrats website:
Byassee and Casey, like many religious leftists, practice a politically and expediently expansionist interpretation of the Scriptures. Biblical admonitions to treat strangers kindly become political demands for abolishing immigration law. Biblical commands to feed the hungry become political demands for an unrestricted welfare state. Biblical aspirations for peace become political demands for unilateral disarmament. In fact, the Scriptures almost never offer the specific public policy guidance that the Religious Left, even more than the Religious Right, effusively likes to claim.
Also, Jesus’ command to love your neighbor becomes a political demand to redefine marriage.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
September 16th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
When leftists demand that we help others, offer them sanctuary, pay for their children’s healthcare and education, etc. ad nauseum, they invite in the Goliath of the State to enforce their good intentions. If any disagree, the full force and might of an armed State is brought to bear against them. And these are the kind and tolerant ones? Seems to me that Jesus was commanding individuals to do individual acts, not individuals to bring the State to bear on all, willing or not.
September 17th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Americans are worried, we have reasons…
Americans are worried. Worried about the terrorists, the war against Islamic terrorists, the Muslim reaction to the Pope’s comments, … worried about our military, our politicians, … worried about Europe going to the dogs and worried about the invi…
September 18th, 2006 at 9:46 am
I never understood religious people wanting to pass laws to force “religious” behavior. Doesn’t God want us to do good deeds because we want to and not because the government makes us?