As I am sure you know, God does not consult with us small church pastors on weighty issues of that kind. Still, how do you know that? Where did you get this info? I have to hand it to you, Frank, you sure do have the connections. If Donald Trump is the champion of American Christianity, God save it from its enemies!Īll kidding aside, you might be right about God putting Donald Trump in the White House-though your reasons for so believing are probably different from what I might conjecture. What freedoms are we talking about here, Frank? The freedom to lie with impunity? The freedom to grab young girls by the genitals? The freedom to discriminate against people of color in the sale and rental of real estate? The freedom to refer to women as “dogs,” “fat pigs,” and “ugly”? The freedom to call your opponents “idiots,” “losers,” “liars” and “frauds”? The freedom to slander people with accusations of criminal conduct based on absolutely no evidence? By my count, the above violate at least four of the Ten Commandments (you will find those in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy-both in the Bible). I am struggling, too, with your claim that Donald Trump is a champion (albeit an unlikely one) for religious freedom. Heck, Frank, if all of us small church pastors refused to bury everyone whose conduct we didn’t approve of, the country would be ten feet deep in corpses! Furthermore, I don’t understand why baking a cake for people whose conduct you find personally offensive is such a big deal. If you don’t like the rules, don’t join the game. But if they are going to do business in this country, they have to follow the law against discrimination-just like the rest of us. Look, I understand the owners of this establishment you mention in your speech don’t approve of gay and lesbian people getting married. Stop with the drama already! You are not under attack just because you have to follow the rules like everyone else. So wouldn’t it have been the Christian way to have baked a cake for the same sex couple in your example, even if you deem them enemies (another assertion I don’t quite understand)? I’m confused.īut in any event, Frank, let’s get over this persecution complex. He said that if your enemy is hungry you should feed him (that’s in the Bible too). Moreover, there is a Christian fellow named Paul (aka Saul) who wrote a letter to a church in Rome nearly two thousand years ago. He says you don’t get divine kudos from suffering the consequences of breaking the law-even if you are a Christian. He’s an expert on persecution, having been on the receiving end of it more than once. But having to pay a judgment for refusing to bake a cake for a same sex couple in violation of the law against discrimination? This you call persecution? There’s a letter in the Bible, written by the Apostle Peter (ever heard of him?). Or I figured you were referring to the slaughter of Coptic Christians in Egypt this past Palm Sunday. When you started talking about attacks on Christianity, I thought you might have been referring to the racially motivated slaying of pastors and lay people at Mother Emmanuel church in Charleston some time back. I can’t say I have ever experienced anything in this country that could reasonably be called a restriction on my religious liberty, much less persecution. Of all the things that worry me, loss of religious freedom for Christians in America isn’t one of them. I have to say, though, that I was a little confused by your summons. Rest assured, we are ready to respond to your calls to prayer and action. After all, we don’t do anything really “newsworthy.” We just preach the good news of Jesus Christ love one another the best we can (which sometimes isn’t very well) feed the hungry that come to our doors care for the sick comfort the dying and bury the dead. We probably will never be recognized in any nationally syndicated media. We don’t hold a candle to an auditorium filled with the music of a one hundred voice choir led by professional musicians. Most often we are overlooked and overshadowed by mega-churches and politically influential religious voices like your own. And we are a century old fixture of our small community. Anyway, I have to say I was flattered when I learned that your Decision America Tour took a detour off the beaten path to call upon us “small community churches.” We are nothing if not small. Please click on the letter of the First Name you are searching for here below, then click the name to see their connections, endorsements, the organizations they belong to and their false teachings.Can I call you Frank? This is just pastor to pastor.
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