In my preparation to preach on the 5th Commandment (Exodus 20:12) tomorrow, I came across this quote:
The nation’s moral climate is obviously not good. The majority of Americans may call themselves Christians, but a large number of them live by anything bu Christian tenets. It probably isn’t surprising, then, that many Christians see political action as a way to make things right. The religious left, carried away with the “social gospel,” has long been a vigorous advocate of income redistribution. But many conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, while resisting economic collectivism, now advocate an expansive state in the social arena. Indeed, many of the strongest opponents of government economic intervention have pressed for social intervention through antipornography prosecutions, tougher drug enforcement, and prayer in public schools. And they have done so without addressing or even recognizing and contradiction between their positions.
What say ye?
February 20th, 2006 at 1:19 am
It’s not a contradiction unless one believes that government intervention is generally wrong. That’s a libertarian position, not a conservative one.