An Open Letter to the Christian Right

[Silver Pines]

An Open Letter to the Christian Right

by Erick Erickson
10/14/16


I am an evangelical Christian. I believe scripture is the inerrant word of God. I believe that when scripture speaks with authority on a subject, it is accurate even though it sometimes forces me to confront seeming contradictions. I believe in one triune God who through the person of Jesus Christ has delivered me from sin and will return to judge the quick and dead.

But I no longer believe in you.

While there are many right thinking Christians in the United States, the Christian Right has become as worldly and polluted as the Christian Left. Liberal Christianity in the United States has found that God is ever changing. His pronouncements on homosexuality have evolved. The application of the Bible need not be taken literally. And sin itself must be affirmed. Now the Christian Right does the same. It ignores admonitions of the Bible. It excuses the sins of those on the team.

To be clear, when I say Christian Right, I mean the political organizations that agitate for Christian values in Washington, D.C., not the conservative Christians in America struggling through their lives. I do not mean the mission focused biblically based organizations spread across America. I mean the remnant of the Moral Majority, which still seeks to exercise influence on behalf of Christians in Washington, D.C.

By your actions in Campaign 2016, you have harmed all of our witness. You have made it more difficult to save the lost and more difficult to protect the rights of faithful believers.
You have dragged down the reputation of penitent heroes of the Bible to justify the sins of Donald Trump.

Read more at:
http://theresurgent.com/an-open-letter-to-the-christian-right/

[TomSea]

Eric Erickson has been caught saying some pretty bad things too.

Maybe he should ask himself the same things.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Honestly Erick, suck a fart out of my bleep.


As a non christian I can say that. :)

[Silver Pines]

I think he pretty much nailed it.

[AllThatJazzZ]

I think he pretty much nailed it.

He did nail it, Catherine, and you can see that it doesn't set well with some. I can remember a time when I didn't like truth either.

These were especially on target:

You have defended Donald Trump as partisans, not as Christians....

You made Christianity partisan instead of holy.

I've done some housekeeping recently in light of these errant Christians. I've tossed sermons and books of folks for whom I once had great respect. Now everything they have said and will say is suspect to me. There are honestly times when I can't help wondering if they would have reasoned themselves into attempting prevent Jesus from dying on the cross because they determined that was the only way to prevent the awful outcome of the "hopeless" situation they were in.

I've decided to trust God in this mess (of our own making). I am at peace with that decision.

[Silver Pines]

He did nail it, Catherine, and you can see that it doesn't set well with some. I can remember a time when I didn't like truth either.

These were especially on target:

You have defended Donald Trump as partisans, not as Christians....

You made Christianity partisan instead of holy.

I've done some housekeeping recently in light of these errant Christians. I've tossed sermons and books of folks for whom I once had great respect. Now everything they have said and will say is suspect to me. There are honestly times when I can't help wondering if they would have reasoned themselves into attempting prevent Jesus from dying on the cross because they determined that was the only way to prevent the awful outcome of the "hopeless" situation they were in.

I've decided to trust God in this mess (of our own making). I am at peace with that decision.

@AllThatJazzZ

Yes, i'm pretty much the same.  He's in control and He'll use the winner of this election for His own aims, so it will work out all right.

[HonestJohn]

He did nail it, Catherine, and you can see that it doesn't set well with some. I can remember a time when I didn't like truth either.

These were especially on target:

You have defended Donald Trump as partisans, not as Christians....

You made Christianity partisan instead of holy.

I've done some housekeeping recently in light of these errant Christians. I've tossed sermons and books of folks for whom I once had great respect. Now everything they have said and will say is suspect to me. There are honestly times when I can't help wondering if they would have reasoned themselves into attempting prevent Jesus from dying on the cross because they determined that was the only way to prevent the awful outcome of the "hopeless" situation they were in.

I've decided to trust God in this mess (of our own making). I am at peace with that decision.

Wouldn't this mean that those churches are now political organs and not of the faith?  And if so, wouldn't that mean they lose their tax-exempt status?

[Smokin Joe]

Wouldn't this mean that those churches are now political organs and not of the faith?  And if so, wouldn't that mean they lose their tax-exempt status?

Well, that has long been a threat for teaching Bible based attitudes toward politics, let's see if applies to the apostates who depart from Biblical doctrine for politics' sake.

[Smokin Joe]

He did nail it, Catherine, and you can see that it doesn't set well with some. I can remember a time when I didn't like truth either.

These were especially on target:

You have defended Donald Trump as partisans, not as Christians....

You made Christianity partisan instead of holy.

I've decided to trust God in this mess (of our own making). I am at peace with that decision.