Reply to Falwell
Jerry Falwell, that stalwart of the Religious Right in the USA has declared in a letter that those who disagree with his politics are ‘hardly “Christian”.‘ Well, thanks, Jerry. I wasn’t aware that Jesus came to preach the Gospel of the Republican Party of the USA. I always thought that he came to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour (Luke 4:18-19). Father Jake has written a reply to Falwell’s letter at the Christian Alliance for Progress. I’m not always in tune with the Progressive message, but Jake’s letter reply deals point by point with Falwell’s attack, insisting that Christ’s message was far more than the narrow one of “heaven for me when I die” that is too often preached by the Right.
pax et bonum
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