Hmm. With a few exceptions, the average person can only do what the average person can do. I write here in this blog, and work, and spend money from time to time, and have a small circle of friends, and that's pretty much the entire extent of my actual influence on the world. Which is about what all of us have to offer.
So, really most of my criticism is directed at liberal religious leaders. I don't get the sense that they realize there's an actual war going on. I don't sense any anger from them. I see them continuing to want to use dialogue and reason and other civilized tactics -- which would be great, if the Chaliban respected that.
Every now and then i do see things from liberal Christians that give me a glimmer of hope. But for the most part, most liberal churches i've observed are turned almost entirely inward.
So, more expressions of anger might be good, and more public outreach on the church level (though i know some of these efforts are actually being thwarted by the mainstream media). In short, some zealous evangelism.
What i'm really looking for is a sense that the majority of people don't actually believe that the Chaliban speaks for them. The majority has been continuing to vote for Chaliban candidates and same-sex marriage bans, and they rally around causes proclaimed by the Chaliban. I want to know that i'm not hated by a majority of the people around me. I used to harbor some hope that liberal Christianity was in a good position to take over the voice of moral righteousness, but it hasn't happened, and i see little indication that there is a mass movement to prove to America that the Dominionists and Chaliban do not speak for Jesus.
Re: I swear to God this is an honest question, not sarcasm
So, really most of my criticism is directed at liberal religious leaders. I don't get the sense that they realize there's an actual war going on. I don't sense any anger from them. I see them continuing to want to use dialogue and reason and other civilized tactics -- which would be great, if the Chaliban respected that.
Every now and then i do see things from liberal Christians that give me a glimmer of hope. But for the most part, most liberal churches i've observed are turned almost entirely inward.
So, more expressions of anger might be good, and more public outreach on the church level (though i know some of these efforts are actually being thwarted by the mainstream media). In short, some zealous evangelism.
What i'm really looking for is a sense that the majority of people don't actually believe that the Chaliban speaks for them. The majority has been continuing to vote for Chaliban candidates and same-sex marriage bans, and they rally around causes proclaimed by the Chaliban. I want to know that i'm not hated by a majority of the people around me. I used to harbor some hope that liberal Christianity was in a good position to take over the voice of moral righteousness, but it hasn't happened, and i see little indication that there is a mass movement to prove to America that the Dominionists and Chaliban do not speak for Jesus.