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The Current Cowardly Church Needs a Mega Dose of the Rebel Spirit

Yaelvit Wrote: Jul 08, 2012 10:02 PM

You haven't read and/or understood the Bible. John the Baptist was beheaded because he got in the governor's face and publicly denounced his lifestyle. Deny it. Likewise almost all Old Testament prophets, Jeremiah, Elijah etc constantly harassed, pronounced curses against and proclaimed God's word to the KINGS- who were the entirety of politics at the time. . Deny it. There is so much more in Psalms, Revelation and especially in the law that it is a waste of time to try to educate someone who is so blinded.

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bdogslo Wrote: Jul 08, 2012 10:14 PM

I am not denying your right to free speech. Is that what Giles is advocating?

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The Current Cowardly Church Needs a Mega Dose of the Rebel Spirit

Whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the People may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new Government; the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. –Declaration of Rights, Maryland

Unlike America’s original rebel Christians who dumped the Brits’ taxed tea into Boston Harbor and told King George that he could kiss their King George, today’s evangelicals, I believe—especially the dandy ministers who love to be loved—would have...

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