I’m sure many of my friends will get a laugh out of this one. KKLA Radio Host Frank Pastore has written a recent article that theorizes that Al Qaeda actually supports the Emergent Church.
He says the Emergent church is weak and is actually creating weak Christians who don’t want to fight.
I think he’s out in left field on this one but if he really wanted to strengthen his article, he would have called it, Why the Emmergent Church supports Al Qaeda.
The emergent church is an ally in the war against radical Islam–al Qaeda’s ally. Not in the sense they are supplying bullets and bombs to Osama, of course, but in the sense they are weakening our conviction to fight.
If those in the emergent “we’re-a-missional-not-an-institutional†church had their way, American church buildings would be just like European church buildings – empty. And the church, the people themselves, would be so intellectually, morally, emotionally, and spiritually lost, confused and uncertain, that they would be incapable of doing hardly anything more than inviting their Muslim oppressors in for a cappuccino and a good conversation about the sociology of knowledge, the absurdity of propositional truth, and the misplaced certitude of the Muslim metanarrative. All the while, no doubt, nodding in agreement that America probably deserved to die and mumbling something about carbon footprints.
I personally think Pastore is a little to hung up on his American patriotism and the idea that only conservative, evangelical Christian Americans can save the world from Al Qaeda.
Only the United States, and more specifically, only the conservative, evangelical Christians of America are who stand between radical Islam and their quest for global domination.
It’s too bad that other people aren’t concerned about the safety of their of country like conservative, evangelical American Christians (lets just call them CEACs). I guess that’s why Britain has sent so many soldiers to Iraq and why other countries have sent their own soldiers to die in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If the world is to be saved from Muslim conquest, it will be America who does it. And if America is to be saved, only conservatism can do it. And if conservatism is to be saved, it will be those Bible-believing patriots who do it–those conservative, evangelical Christians who are the bedrock of the American way of life.
Why? Because only Christianity has the intellectual and spiritual horsepower to defeat radical Islam and prevent the world from returning to the darkness of the 7th century.
It would also appear that Pastore is of the belief that CEACs should be an exclusive club. Only for the elite and those who believe exactly as we do.
Bottom line, it’s feelings over thoughts, the heart over the head, experience over truth, deeds over creeds, narratives over propositions, the corporate over the individualistic, being inclusive rather than exclusive, with none of that offensive “in versus out†language, such as those who are “saved†and those who are “not saved,†or even the most divisive of all referents–“Christian†and “non-Christian.â€
The emergent church and its allies on the religious left are to Christianity what termites are to wood. They devour it from the inside out, little bit by little bit, and you don’t notice it until it’s too late–unless you look for the droppings.
Maybe he missed the scripture that reminds us in Psalms 24:1, “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.”
That’s too bad. Good thing God’s a very inclusive God to make up for all the CECAs who aren’t.
Granted I’m sure that will open up a can of worms right there. I’m not saying anyone and everyone is a Christian – I’m saying that I believe that we as Christians should be inclusive of the poor, the downtrodden, the sick and the needy. We should love our neighbor and brothers. We should allow them to join us in our search for God – not shun them because they believe something different than us or come from another background, culture, country or faith.
What are your thoughts?