Christianity Today Magazine: Christians Clear Losers In Alabama Election

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The editor-in-chief of Christianity Today posted a provocative editorial that concludes “Christian faith” was the clear loser in the Alabama special election.

“No matter the outcome of today’s special election in Alabama for a coveted US Senate seat, there is already one loser: Christian faith. When it comes to either matters of life and death or personal commitments of the human heart, no one will believe a word we say, perhaps for a generation,” the editorial explained. “Christianity’s integrity is severely tarnished.”

Democrat Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in the special election.

The editorial noted the Alabama special election, “put an exclamation point on a problem that has been festering for a year and a half—ever since a core of strident conservative Christians began to cheer for Donald Trump without qualification and a chorus of other believers decried that support as immoral.”

“The Christian leaders who have excused, ignored, or justified his unscrupulous behavior and his indecent rhetoric have only given credence to their critics who accuse them of hypocrisy,” the editorial continued.

“When a public Christian is accused of some immorality, the honorable and moral thing to do has been to take a leave of absence until the matter of settled,” Christianity Today noted. “This is precisely what Moore, who sees himself as a godly and moral candidate, has refused to do.”

Related: Pastor: A Shocking Twenty-Five Percent of Alabama Evangelicals Voted For Roy Moore

The Republicanism of some evangelical Christians harms the gospel of Jesus, the editorial argued.

“When combative conservative Christians refuse to suffer patiently in the public square, retaliate when insults are hurled at them, and do not refrain from the appearance of evil, they sabotage not only their political cause but the cause they care about the most: the gospel of Jesus Christ,” Christianity Today concluded.

Via RawStory.

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6 years ago

Christians! I’ve known hundreds of them. Some of them are assholes, some aren’t. Most hypocrites, all self-righteous.

Admin
6 years ago

From the perspective of survival, the case for organized religion is easy to make. Early humans had to cooperate to survive. We are smaller and far less physically endowed than many of our would-be predators, and the small prey we can catch individually cannot sustain even moderately-sized groups. The earliest religions were centered on the spirits of the ancestors. That it still exists, after all these many years, is a cultural phenomenon, one that is doomed to vanish into the ether, sooner or later. We can only hope it will be sooner.

Glenn R. Geist
6 years ago

It’s time to ask if Christianity actually exists other than as an ill-fitting rag so many people wear to cloak their greed and hatred and self-pity and arrogance and irrational fear. You can call yourself a Christian and believe in anything – and of course that’s just what happens.

Who else calls blind and willful ignorance a virtue and thinks it conveys license literally to lord it over other people at the expense of freedom, compassion and democracy.

Have we forgotten that in the last few hundred years Christianity was the most effective supporter of feudalism and theocratic rule and this the biggest enemy democracy and freedom of belief ever had? I guess so. Nothing is too obscene to repel support for “Christian” dictatorship and yes, it’s always been that way, or at least since Rome bought the rights to use it.

Christian democracy is a contradiction in terms.

jess
6 years ago

They need to put the Christianity is for moral people bullshit to bed now. Never has been never will be.

Reply to  jess
6 years ago

I agree completely, but you already knew that 🙂

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