16 thoughts on ““Alternative Facts” and Christian Truth”
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Dr. Watson,
I enjoy very much your progressive Christian views and thought-provoking insight on various issues of significance today. I’m very much in agreement with many of the things in which you write here, in some other topics and message threads: the “wall”, Trump, and so forth.
I think it’s quite acceptable to have political viewpoints within one’s sense of Christian ethics as broadcast here on a public forum.
OTOH I think it’s more civilized and proper to avoid injecting politics, from the right or left, when delivering a sermon directly from the pulpit during the traditional services. Unfortunately I’ve seen this ‘rule’ broken often enough on Sunday mornings, from even the most experienced preachers, such that it tends to ruin the spiritual message once it gets mixed in with the worldly affairs of the mundane.
But this is the better place to fully express one’s political views within the redeeming qualities of Christian faith.
If you mean “political views,” meaning telling your congregants for whom you, personally, think that they should cast their vote, I completely concur. This should not be a part of a sermon or Christian message.
However, the issues should, no must, be a part of any meaningful sermon.
The issue of inequality,
Corporate Greed
Food insecurity,
Homelessness,
Discrimination against any of our brothers or sisters, and this, quite frankly includes our LBGQAI sisters and brothers,
Voting rights (not for whom to vote, but the right to vote),
A tax code that benefits only the top 1%,
Stagnant wages.
Health care as a right, not merely a privilege.
A failing educational system.
A crumbling infrastructure
Wages being unequal for women,
Women being whole persons, able to make decisions for themselves.
Women not subservient to their husbands, but equal partners with their husbands.
Respect for women, as well as men
These are issues that should be part of any Christian message, (perhaps not all in one sermon, or you would have them in church until 7 PM 🙂 ) but though out the year, and, also, our Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist sisters and brothers, part of what they hear from their religious leaders.
Ok Carla – or should I say Hillary
Yes, Chuck, both my husband and I voted for Hillary, but in the primary, we voted for Bernie. Had Bernie won the nomination, he would have won the election. He would have won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote.
Now, all we can do is hope that we keep all three, Judicial, Executive, and Legislative branches of the government sane and that they will, eventually, listen to the people. Remember the popular vote did favor Hillary, but 3 million votes.