Harper's Cartoon: Jesus Teaching. ⇒
29 July 2005, mid-afternoon
There is also a great article in this months Harper's about the backwards-ass way most Americans view Christianity.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
I like this article. Concise and a good argument about (some of) what Christianity stands for and how it can be applied. (It’s about a lot more than homosexuality and abortion. And are those even mentioned in the Gospel?).
And even if you have a different faith (or athesism!?), you really need to be disturbed by facts like “nearly 18 percent of American children lived in poverty (compared with, say, 8 percent in Sweden)” and “Despite the Sixth Commandment, we are, of course, the most violent rich nation on earth, with a murder rate four or five times that of our European peers.” and wonder if something is fundamentally wrong with the US.
by Ryan on July 30 2005, 2:29 am #
The complete article isn’t that much longer, and contains a lot more interesting points. It is a shame it isn’t online in its complete form.
by ramanan on July 30 2005, 2:49 am #