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An Open Letter to my Black Evangelical Friends

Joseph64 Wrote: Nov 16, 2012 6:52 PM

Jesus taught what he did directly to the people, not the government in power at the time. Jesus would never have advocated the use of government coercion to bring people into line. When you do something in Jesus name, it must come from the heart or it is meaningless. Government run social programs will not get anyone into heaven. And Jesus did not attack social conservatives in the temple, he attacked defilers of the temple who were using it for business purposes rather than as a house of God. Social conservatism had nothing to do with it.

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An Open Letter to my Black Evangelical Friends

I am not writing this letter to accuse but rather to advance understanding. And even though I am white, I am not writing as an outsider but as a fellow evangelical, part of the same spiritual family. May I pose some candid questions?

Are you guilty, on any level, of blind allegiance to the Democratic party? And, on Election Day, did any of you compromise your convictions out of racial solidarity?

I have been very open in my criticism of white evangelicals, pointing out how we often put our trust in the Republican party and how we look to the latest...

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