Who would Jesus torture?
Read the full CNN.com story here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/22/torture.christian/
A similar Pew Forum survey in the opening months of the War in Iraq showed that support for the war was greatest among white evangelical churchgoers. At the time it struck me as problematic that self-described followers of Jesus -- the "prince of peace" -- were the easiest to convince to go to war.
And now apparently torture is okay too. This is the worst manifestation God-and-country nationalism I've seen in a long time. This isn't authentic Christianity. Its simply American folk religion masquerading as true religion, and a failure of public theology on a massive scale.
What the #$%@ are they teaching in American seminaries these days?
Photo credit: "Abu Ghraib 72", 2005
© FERNANDO BOTERO
Collection of American University Museum, Washington, DC
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Comment by Fred Holland on October 9, 2009 at 6:19am -
People are so afraid right now. At least the ones I have visited with. They are afraid that God might be real and He is not going to "bless" them if they don't get on board with "the program". I have heard this recently from a very religeous guy at work. His life is in caos(still no spell checker I see) but he is against all the "right" things, so he is ok in the Lord's eyes. When I asked him about that "love your enemies" thing, his response was "Jesus wasn't talking about REAL enemies like in a war,,,".
What I see is a total lack of real faith, real belief and true religeon(,,caring for widows and orphans in thier distress,,,) and a kind of pseudo belief system emerging that says "I'm not sure if God is real but I'm going to act like I do, just in case." This keeps the truth of God a bay so we don't have to let him do a coarse correction on our lives and allows us to keep all the dark, seething hatred in tact.
Fred
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