News:

The Unknown Zone ℠ © 2001-2026 D.N.P. All rights reserved on all parts of this Internet Publication which consists of graphic images and text documents.  No part of this Internet Publication may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without permission.

Main Menu

How young people are seeing Christ

Started by Mom, January 06, 2009, 11:51:59 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Mom

January 06, 2009, 11:51:59 PM
La Tondresse's rationale...

There's over 2,000 verses in the Bible that deal with God's care and concern for the poor. There are less than 2 dozen on homosexuality and even fewer that address abortion. Now you certainly wouldn't get that impression from looking at the political agenda of the far right. Now for my generation, if we have to choose between those 2,000 verses that deal with poverty or those 2 dozen, it's a no brainer.

La Tondresse states on his website he is "Special Assistant to Jim Wallis," an Evangelical Obama supporter.

On Fox, La Tondresse stated he is part of a "whole generation of evangelicals... applying their faith... to a broader and deeper agenda than ever before. It includes things like poverty, HIV/AIDs, genocide, human trafficking, the war in Iraq, global climate change...."

La Tondresse further stated the Republican Party will continue to lose young Evangelical voters by focusing on abortion and gay marriage:

La Tondresse: There are 3,000 abortions in America every single day, and that is a number that's unfit for any caring society. But there are 30,000 kids that died yesterday, will die today, and will die tomorrow from hunger, lack of clean drinking water, and preventable diseases. And my generation continues to be pro-life, but for us that definition has to be broader than ever before. It has to include those 30,000 kids in order to be taken seriously.

Interviewer: When you say 30,000 kids, you mean around the world, not just this country.

La Tondresse: Absolutely. It's global and it's proportional.

http://www.recoveringevangelical.com/
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions