From the a couple of weeks ago, The Tufts Daily reported about a chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship:
“Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) has lost its official recognition as a Tufts Community Union (TCU) student group over alleged discriminatory clauses in the group’s constitutional requirements for its leaders.”
TCF required leaders to be….Christians.
This is just another example of the growing ghettoization of Christians in the U.S. Slowly, inexorably the squeeze comes. Christians proselytize, engage in “hate speech,” refuse to teach their 6-year-olds about sex, are anti-science, hate women, and breed. Isn’t enough enough?
I fear that after Tuesday’s election, this is only the beginning. Ora pro nobis.
“Christians proselytize, engage in “hate speech,” refuse to teach their 6-year-olds about sex, are anti-science, hate women, and breed. Isn’t enough enough?”
Christians are not anti-science and don’t hate women. An element of the Republican Party is anti-science and hates women. If conservatives want to do better they need to educate themselves about science. The Republican Party has become the party of astonishing scientific illiteracy. Climate change is a desperately important issue. If we care about humanity, we need to address this problem! And as for hating women, the Republicans need to purge themselves of the Todd Akins and to start showing respect for the integrity of women’s bodies and women’s minds. Conservatives have been deeply offensive to women. Remember: We made up 54% of the electorate.
It is not going to get better. After going 32-0 on marriage at the ballot box, the generational demographics are changing enough that on Tuesday the issue went 0-3. Recreational marijuana initiatives also passed. Because the marriage issue has been framed as an equality and civil rights issue, orthodox Christianity is by default also framed as bigoted. And, this is America. We don’t negotiate with terrorists, and we don’t compromise with bigots.
It will only get worse for those who remain true to the faith. Slowly, very slowly. But also steadily. But we are expected to continue to practice our faith, to continue to pray out our window as Daniel did, if you will, even if laws change in ways that could be damaging to our reputation or livelihood. The biggest threat Christianity poses has always been that ours is a kingdom not of this world. You can change the laws or rules all you want, back and forth, back and forth, and you are welcome to do that in a democracy, the will of the people being what it is. But Christ is still King, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Non-Christians are welcome to do with that what they will. Our hope is that they too repent and come to know the peace of God, by reconciling through Christ. For we all will face his judgment.
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