Thursday, November 29, 2007

The Passing of Evangelical Christianity

... To a nation filled with intense religious fervor, the Hebrew prophet Amos said: You are not the holy people you imagine yourselves to be. Though the land is filled with festivals and assemblies, with songs and melodies, and with so much pious talk, these are not sounds and sights that are pleasing to the Lord. "Take away from me the noise of your congregations," Amos says, "you who have turned justice into poison." ...
A long, but rather thought-provoking read on the "passing of evangelical Christianity" that questiosn why American Christians seem to be so for the war when the rest of the Christian community is against it.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/id....

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