You are so right. I wonder if I'm not the only person who walked away from the church I'd been attending for the past 3 years when I was told we couldn't participate in "Ceasefire Carols" because of "legal ramifications." Legal ramifications?? Innocents are being slaughtered--babies in their incubators bombed and left for dead!! I'm sure Christ didn't stop and think about "legal ramifications" when he cured the lepers or the blind and lame. Sheesh!
As if right wing fundamentalist evangelical churches ever worry about that. What you were told is yet another example of the cowardice of liberal churches.
Deitrcih Bonhoefer would be run out of most American churches.
"It may not make you popular, but true faith — true Christianity — is never about being popular. Just ask Christ. " -- Mark Taylor
Never truer words spoken (the Rev. Isaac's) or written (yours)!
I've shared a link of this sermon several places and emailed it to a friend. No response. I'm, once again, a "crazy" or a "troublemaker", but at least I can sleep with a clear conscience knowing I called this genocide a "genocide" and spoke out against it at every given opportunity. #FreePalestine
Yes! That's my attitude as well. To be unpopular or considered a troublemaker in a society so sick and venal is a label i will gladly wear. Far better to be outside such a toxic circle than inside.
I am 71 and particularly disillusioned with my generation. There is a wonderful coffee shop I go to where a lot of other people of my generation go. Nobody is interested in my "trouble making". I sit off by myself enjoying the coffee and reading or sketching out a cartoon as they talk about their latest trip to Florida, or their new car, or endless repetitious tales of their high school days.
These are all people with the education, experience and financial resources to DO something. But they don't.
And they'll sit there with their coffee and trite chatting--even if it singes their eyebrows. They figure if they ignore the world burning that it can't hurt them. Pretty stupid on their parts. I don't have to even try and I'm labeled a "troublemaker," so I will accept the title and carry on making "trouble" by exposing the sickness in our society until it's cured. It's better than sitting in a coffee shop and getting my eyebrows singed!
Truthful and accurate sermon.
It really was amazing. The silence of American churches have been so cowardly and cynical. They might as well lock the doors and walk away.
You are so right. I wonder if I'm not the only person who walked away from the church I'd been attending for the past 3 years when I was told we couldn't participate in "Ceasefire Carols" because of "legal ramifications." Legal ramifications?? Innocents are being slaughtered--babies in their incubators bombed and left for dead!! I'm sure Christ didn't stop and think about "legal ramifications" when he cured the lepers or the blind and lame. Sheesh!
As if right wing fundamentalist evangelical churches ever worry about that. What you were told is yet another example of the cowardice of liberal churches.
Deitrcih Bonhoefer would be run out of most American churches.
"It may not make you popular, but true faith — true Christianity — is never about being popular. Just ask Christ. " -- Mark Taylor
Never truer words spoken (the Rev. Isaac's) or written (yours)!
I've shared a link of this sermon several places and emailed it to a friend. No response. I'm, once again, a "crazy" or a "troublemaker", but at least I can sleep with a clear conscience knowing I called this genocide a "genocide" and spoke out against it at every given opportunity. #FreePalestine
Yes! That's my attitude as well. To be unpopular or considered a troublemaker in a society so sick and venal is a label i will gladly wear. Far better to be outside such a toxic circle than inside.
I am 71 and particularly disillusioned with my generation. There is a wonderful coffee shop I go to where a lot of other people of my generation go. Nobody is interested in my "trouble making". I sit off by myself enjoying the coffee and reading or sketching out a cartoon as they talk about their latest trip to Florida, or their new car, or endless repetitious tales of their high school days.
These are all people with the education, experience and financial resources to DO something. But they don't.
As the world -- literally -- burns.
And they'll sit there with their coffee and trite chatting--even if it singes their eyebrows. They figure if they ignore the world burning that it can't hurt them. Pretty stupid on their parts. I don't have to even try and I'm labeled a "troublemaker," so I will accept the title and carry on making "trouble" by exposing the sickness in our society until it's cured. It's better than sitting in a coffee shop and getting my eyebrows singed!
Occasionally one of them will say "Hi, how are you?" as I'm working on my laptop of sketchbook. I reply, "Oh, fine, just causing trouble."
They scoot off.