Posted by
Tamil Selvi on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:08:51 PM
A third party in the Offing?
Although our nation is predominantly a Christian country, the Christian community here is rapidly drifting from being torchbearers of Gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ to a "Moral Police" political action movement (towards Moral Majority Revival, to be precise, as led by late evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell); this new political third party is about to be split from the GOP, probably it shall be called CCR, the Conservative Christian Right, and the remnant GOP elephants will no more be called the RINOs but will remain as the Grand Old Party. It is amazing to see how history repeats faithfully by bringing out these radicals to light who misuse religion to advance their secular agenda; and we can do nothing about it, but just to "pass them by" as Calvin did to those (pathetic souls with "holier than thou" attitude!) who "amuse themselves" equating their righteousness with the purity of angels.
One of the sure manifestations of our fallen nature is the arrogance of attempting to interpret the Scripture "presumptuously" as Augustine states humbly when he began his commentaries, and it is not surprising at all to see such a thing happening even now as it happened several times in the course of our human history in the past, when Christianity deliberately distracts from the set-course for a brief moment and try to interpret scripture to match the radical ideology that a small group wants the society to swallow (through spineless masquerade such as intelligent design, abortion etc)! Although excited by lot of success initially, takes profound humiliation in their attempt, shame and defeat from unexpected corners in the end, and then reverts back to the right track, i.e., the age-old sweet Gospel, with humility; not to mention taking its toll on both sides of the double-edged sword in this "course correcting" process! - is this part of our Master's grand plan?
"As God seals his elect by vocation and justification, so by excluding the reprobate from the knowledge of his name and the sanctification of his Spirit, he affords an indication of the judgment that awaits them." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (On Double Predestination).
Jubilating with a fine bordeaux white as the CCR’s hope that more suckers will subscribe to their insane 3-part so called "The Great God Debate" instead faced a humiliating defeat, that too from an atheist, of all factions!