sarah palin, abortion and camille paglia
I happened on a new (for me) blog and he had an extract from Camille Paglia a liberal, feminist writer. Interesting perspective on current political events. I followed the link and read the entire article, her take on Sarah Palin is frankly admiring and her position on abortion arresting. She writes :
“But the pro-life position, whether or not it is based on religious orthodoxy, is more ethically highly evolved than my own tenet of unconstrained access to abortion on demand. My argument (as in my first book, “Sexual Personae,”) has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature’s fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.
Hence I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, Read more
Letters to the next President – Andy Stanley
In a previous article I lauded Rick Warren’s political posture, which to me, is most preferable to that of the Christian Right or the Emergent Christian Left. Blame my centrist leanings, wanting the best of both sides and rejecting their faults, but there must be a way for the church to speak for God without descending into the arena and feeding our opponents to the lions. If you wonder what all this has to do with the price of fish, fish being the title of this post, well, i have just happened upon one other laudable example of Christian leadership’s participation in the political process, this time involving Andy Stanley .
Andy Stanley pastors the giga Northpoint church in Atlanta, Georgia. Andy and his crowd have always been innovative but their latest endeavour is spot on. Andy has just preached a series on leadership entitled Letters to the Next President, which we shall be examining forthwith. Alongside the messages which, America being America, the candidates will no doubt watch or be briefed about, is a website www.letterstothenextpresident.com where anyone can log on and write their own letters to the next president.
It’s a thoroughly non partisan initiative enabling every Tom, Dick and ‘Harriet’ to express their heart to the next President irrespective of his political stripe, or theirs for that matter. Andy is adopting the biblical format of religious leaders speaking words of counsel to political leaders and he is also allowing the people to have their say. Not only can you write, you can also read what others are writing.
Here is a sampling of the letters: Read more
Rick Warren, McCain and Obama – the candidates and the pastor
One of the interesting outcomes of the McCain / Obama ‘debate’ is the new respect Rick Warren has gained. His friends have rejoiced. Those who previously looked at him askance sportingly admit that he did rather well, and grudgingly concede that he might indeed turn out to be the right kind of evangelical voice in an American political life soured by the Christian right and assiduously courted by worrisome emergent strains.
I for one salute his courage, if it had turned out badly, his critics would have had a field day. His approach is certainly preferable to that of the 70 odd Christian leaders who called for a vote for McCain in a desperate bid to have a ‘Christian’ president. As it is to the calls of the other group seeking to get Obama elected. Surely it must be an abuse of ecclesiastical authority that influence gained in the kingdom be employed for partisan politicking. Politics and religion have always made strange bedfellows, as I commented in a previous post.
What we need Read more
Should the church dabble in politics?
I posted the following in a response to a Strang Report on the meeting of 70 evangelical leaders who have offered their support for John McCain :
“From the perspective of someone who resides in Europe where the church has zero political clout, the american obsession with having a ‘christian’ president is a luxury. America needs a christian people, a people who not only believe the gospel but live it out, in a democracy the government will do what the masses of people want. The church should focus its energies on reversing the decline of the faith in society and obedience to the gospel among professing christians rather than Read more
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