Tuesday, April 30, 2019
No, Mayor Buttigieg, God isn't a progressiveBy Rita M. Dunaway, Voices Contributor
You can almost hear the gears turning in the heads of campaign managers for Democratic presidential hopefuls. They’re thinking Mayor Pete Buttigieg may have been on to something when he claimed recently that Christian faith leads in a “progressive†direction. If the Democrats can make persuasively make that case, they just might tap into the powerful bloc of conservative, heretofore-Republican, voters. ...
At first glance, Mayor Pete seems to have a great point. After all, Jesus Christ is the ultimate example for the Christian. He spent much of his life ministering to the poor and healing the sick. And didn’t Jesus himself say that whatever we do to care for “the least of these†we do for him?
These are the points trotted out by proud liberals, often in an effort to shame Christians into getting on board with their policy initiatives. I have personally stood on the receiving end of such shaming efforts. ...
Christians, as individuals, and the Church, as an institution, are called to love our neighbors and to be “salt and light†to the world. One of the most obvious ways for us to do this is by caring for the needy; feeding the hungry, giving to the poor, and welcoming the stranger. Those are our duties--and they aren’t properly fulfilled when we attempt to delegate them to a cold, impersonal government bureaucracy that has its own distinct duties to perform. ...
Read the entire article at Christian Post
