I agreed with Jerry Falwell recently. I think this is the first time that has happened.
Let’s see… It wasn’t about this:
“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s charioteers.”
Nor this:
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way—all of them who have tried to secularize America—I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.” (speaking of 9/11)
Oh, here it is:
Alan Wisdom, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, stated this week, “Churches should be reluctant to attach the name of the Gospel of Christ to contemporary political agendas that lack a clear scriptural mandate and consensus among the faithful.”
I think those are very wise words.
He made that last statement in his e-mail newsletter on 2/10/06 after a group of Evangelicals issued a statement (concerning global warming) he didn’t like.
It sounds like great advice to me, Jerry. You should try following it sometime.
A week or so before Jerry passed on, I remember hearing him preach a sermon from his church that “Global Warming” was a diversion promoted by liberals in order to get the publics’ mind off the homosexual and abortion issues! He was warning his congregates to not allow themselves to be duped by those sneaky liberals. Such comments reminded me of a tendency of so many fundamentalist type preachers like the late “Brother Falwell”: they pretend to be experts on all kinds of things they know absolutely nothing about; which is why I quit believing in my independent Baptist church preachers and evangelists at the ripe age of 16!