Comments on: Work in progress: Statement of Principles http://blog.xcski.com/2005/03/19/work-in-progress-statement-of-principles Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:18:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Vicki http://blog.xcski.com/2005/03/19/work-in-progress-statement-of-principles#comment-605 Vicki Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:34:26 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/03/19/work-in-progress-statement-of-principles#comment-605 <i>But now once again I see the Christian church being used as an instrument of George W. Bush’s narrow minded hegemony, I see people I love or people that people I love love dying, and suddenly I’m not as sure that I believe that the Christian church is a force of liberalism, and I am not as sure I believe in a God who is interested in the day to day affairs of the world.</i> The answer to evil men misusing and abusing my church isn't to turn away. It's to make more noise, and say "No, he's wrong. <b>THIS</b> is what it's about." Faith isn't certainty. It's persistance in the face of the horrible things that happen in this human world. If God were going to bail us out of every disaster, natural or man-made, how would we find out what we're capable of? But now once again I see the Christian church being used as an instrument of George W. Bush’s narrow minded hegemony, I see people I love or people that people I love love dying, and suddenly I’m not as sure that I believe that the Christian church is a force of liberalism, and I am not as sure I believe in a God who is interested in the day to day affairs of the world.

The answer to evil men misusing and abusing my church isn’t to turn away. It’s to make more noise, and say “No, he’s wrong. THIS is what it’s about.”

Faith isn’t certainty. It’s persistance in the face of the horrible things that happen in this human world.

If God were going to bail us out of every disaster, natural or man-made, how would we find out what we’re capable of?

]]> By: Barry Price http://blog.xcski.com/2005/03/19/work-in-progress-statement-of-principles#comment-604 Barry Price Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:21:35 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/03/19/work-in-progress-statement-of-principles#comment-604 Wow, that's pretty inspirational. Too much to comment on, but coincidentally I was having the debate with an American friend yesterday about the word "liberal" being an insult in the campaign for the last US election. The very concept of liberalism being a bad thing just doesn't make sense to this Brit... The page is a good idea though, and reads very well. I may have to write one of my own... Wow, that’s pretty inspirational.

Too much to comment on, but coincidentally I was having the debate with an American friend yesterday about the word “liberal” being an insult in the campaign for the last US election. The very concept of liberalism being a bad thing just doesn’t make sense to this Brit…

The page is a good idea though, and reads very well. I may have to write one of my own…

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